This article will explain about different kinds of PHP handlers and how it will impact to each aspect of an application: from resources usage to security level of each. Understanding pros and cons of each handler might help you save much effort on tuning your website performance. The original article can be found at the…
Below are some tips from WordPress pros from across the community. Many of the tips cover development, but there’s also advice on business, running your website and, of course, getting involved with the community. Image: Phil Oakley Tips For Developers USE EVERYTHING WORDPRESS HAS TO OFFER WordPress’ core can do a lot for you, without you…
Xdebug is a PHP extension created by Derick Rethans, one of the PHP core developers. Webgrind is an Xdebug profiling web frontend in PHP5. It implements a subset of the features of kcachegrind and installs in seconds and works on all platforms. For quick’n’dirty optimizations it does the job. This article will show how to install XDebug and WebGrind into your…
Virtualmin is a powerful and flexible web hosting control panel for Linux and UNIX systems based on the well-known Open Source web-based systems management GUI, Webmin. Popular web server associating with PHP-based application is Apache, but Nginx is also a good replacement for high-traffic websites. This article discusses about how to install a new server with VirtualMin…
According to the book High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers by Steve Sonders, and at BEST PRACTICES FOR SPEEDING UP YOUR WEB SITE, there is a best practice for boosting front-end performance as follows: The problem caused by scripts is that they block parallel downloads. The HTTP/1.1 specification suggests that browsers download no more…
PHPUnit is the de-facto standard for unit testing in PHP projects. It provides both a framework that makes the writing of tests easy as well as the functionality to easily run the tests and analyse their results. Install PEAR Download go-pear.phar Run php go-pear.phar Install PHPUnit If using a local installation, we should use pear.bat instead…
Althought CSS3 is currently fully supported by recent browsers, there are many problems when finding a “falling back” solution for IE <= 8. We can surely change the way we display HTML code, or use javascript for some contents, but these are also not in our favor. Fortunatelly, there is a library called Selectivizr providing an “IE-CSS3 library” http://selectivizr.com/. This lib can be used with jQuery, Prototype,…