Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport of database replication events. In other words, it is the nervous system for how distributed processing communicates.
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If you’re granted “AllowOverride Options” or “AllowOverride All” privileges in Apache’s httpd.conf configuration, then you’re able to override PHP configuration directives using the .htaccess file. Read More
Three years ago, in March 2007, the Hardened-PHP project had organized the Month of PHP Bugs. During one month more than 40 vulnerabilities in the PHP interpreter were disclosed in order to improve the overall security of PHP. Now, three years later, SektionEins GmbH will continue in the same spirit and organize the Month of PHP Security.
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http://code.google.com/speed/articles/
http://redotheweb.com/2008/07/08/comparing-propel-doctrine-and-sfpropelfinder/
Savant is a powerful but lightweight object-oriented template system for PHP.
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The function ip2long() generates an IPv4 Internet network address from its Internet standard format (dotted string) representation. Why, because it has several advantages:
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Swapping values in PHP:
$x = 1;
$y = 2;
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XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load. It overcomes a lot of problems that has been with other competing opcachers such as being able to be used with new PHP versions.
Good (but old) article why not to use stored procedures in combination with PHP applications.
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