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Creating and Manipulating PDFs with PHP and FPDF
By W. Jason Gilmore
The demand for PDF manipulation capabilities in PHP spawned open source solutions like FPDF. Find out how to use this single-class PHP tool.

Testing Forms in PHP with SimpleTest
By W. Jason Gilmore
The SimpleTest native Web testing framework makes it easy to automate the testing of your PHP logic from the end user perspective.

Using the Factory Pattern in PHP Applications
By Octavia Andreea Anghel
The factory pattern comes in handy when you need to create multiple PHP objects that belong to the same family.

Harness the Scripting Power of PHP and cURL to Update Facebook
By Marc Steven Plotz
Using PHP and cURL, a powerful tool for sending and retrieving server data, you can very easily manipulate websites such as Facebook.

Top 10 phpmyadmin Tips and Tricks You May Not Know
By W. Jason Gilmore
Here are 10 useful phpMyAdmin features that you may have missed during your daily interactions with this fantastic utility.

Taking Advantage of Simple Cloud with the Zend Cloud Component
By W. Jason Gilmore
The Simple Cloud API offers a unified interface for document storage, file storage and simple queue services, and currently supports several of the most popular service vendors.

Use jQuery to Build Newsletter Subscription Popup with a MySQL/PHP Backend
By W. Jason Gilmore
Learn how to implement the client-side component of a newsletter subscription popup window using jQuery, SimpleModal and jQuery-cookie. With this component in place, integrating the server-side PHP and MySQL is easy.

Implementing Internet Protocols with PHP
By Leidago Noabeb
PHP has many functions that help you to implement Internet protocols. Here is how to use some of the most notable ones.

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Article: Using Drupal 7 with SQL Server
With Drupal 7, PHP developers now have the option of connecting one of the world's most popular Content Management Systems with SQL Server on a Windows platform. Learn how and why this has come about, what to look out for, and how you can get started using Drupal with SQL Server today. »
http://www.devx.com/MS_PHP/Article/46418

Article: PHP Content Management on Windows: Joomla on the Microsoft Web Platform
By using Joomla! along with the Microsoft Web Platform, developers are able to leverage the advanced functionality, ease-of-use and extendible features of Joomla! to enhance the web development tools that are essential to the Microsoft Web Platform. »
http://www.devx.com/MS_PHP/Article/46421