PHP Tutorials

SimpleTest: Unit Testing for PHP

We recently looked at front-end testing of web applications with Selenium. Today, we'll take another approach to testing your PHP..

Phing: A build system for PHP

As PHP applications grow in size and complexity of structure, developers often find themselves putting together a "deployment plan" -..

Getting Started with ORM in PHP

ORM, or Object Relational Mapping, is a database design approach that simplifies managing complex databases for programmers. Instead of direct..

Submitting forms using PHP cURL

In the previous article, we covered the PHP cURL basics. Specifically, we learned how to connect to a remote URL..

WebGrind: web-based frontend for XDebug PHP profiling

Webgrind is a web-based Xdebug profiling frontend for PHP similar to kcachegrind. Webgrind provides a simple PHP-powered interface for examining..

Load testing your web application with Apache Bench

Often you need solid metrics on the performance of your web application. Benchmarking your website can provide insight into which..

8 Cool Functions in the GD2 extension

Most PHP developers have at least heard of GD2; thanks to its prolific use in CAPTCHA generation, the image functions..