The PHP 5.3-based Lithium Framework lands financial and promotional backing from Rails platform provider Engine Yard.

An explanation of my automated PHP scripts for creating a FTP connection to a remote server and streaming data back for processing.

Learn five cool PHP image manipulation tricks using the popular ImageMagick utility.

Step-by-step instructions for creating a registration and login process with the CodeIgniter PHP Web application framework.

Utilizing an access control list in your PHP application can greatly increase security. Here's how it's done.

Learn how to use PHP and Java in the same application, where Java behaves as a pure business logic component and PHP behaves as an interrogator component.

Need to customize your WordPress site's authentication but can't find a plugin? Learn how to implement custom authentication in WordPress.

Artificial intelligence is not just for C/C++ rockstars.  With PHP, you can implement neural networks in your Web applications.

Beta releases of PHP 5.4 and Zend Framework 2.0 show developers what to expect in major updates set to debut in 2012.

There's no shortage of PHP shopping carts, but determining which one is right for your ecommerce project isn't easy. Here's a list of reviews for the 10 most popular.

The dev release of Zend Server previews cloud automation capabilities for the PHP middleware server.

Application vulnerability testing toolkit finally stabilizes with new PHP static analysis tools.

Zend partners with RightScale in new PHP development effort for the cloud.

Adobe updates Flex and Flash Builder with new releases that enable developers to develop for multiple mobile platforms including Android, Blackberry and even iOS.

Learn how to leverage the DooPHP PHP framework to create a simple yet dynamic, database-integrated website.

FPDF provides PDF manipulation capabilities in PHP at open source prices. Find out how to use this single-class PHP enhancement.

If you're a PHP Developer Tools (PDT) user, these 10 tips will make you a much more efficient PHP developer on Eclipse.

The PHP object-relational mapper Doctrine 2 offers expansive capabilities for effectively managing data and relations.

Learn two easy ways to begin testing your Zend Framework forms using PHPUnit and the Zend_Test component.

This video introduction to PHP's object-oriented features explores creating class hierarchies through inheritance, class abstraction, and managing arrays of objects.

This screencast introduces you to PHP's object-oriented syntax, showing you how to create and populate a class and how to work with object data.

These nine cutting-edge PHP development projects bring the PHP language to everything from Android to Apple's Cocoa to Ruby.

Popular open source content management system Drupal gets a major boost after a long development cycle. Is it now ready for the enterprise?

Run PHP and Zend Framework scripts from the command line whenever you need to run scripts from the shell.

The new OOP features in PHP 5 offer new features for constructors and destructors. Learn how to write almost any kind of constructor for your PHP 5 classes.