Eclipse Helios PDT, PHPEclipse, Smarty and some feelings about it

Written on June 28, 2010 – 7:15 am | by Stan Kuhn |

New eclipse version named Helios has been recently released. Let me share my very early feelings about it as from PHP developer view. First I downloaded and tried Eclipse Helios PDT version as this Eclipse installation is meant for PHP development. I’m on Linux so downloading, unpacking zip to new folder. Before first run lets [...]

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Learning LAMP web developement – 6. PHP project organization, framework, libraries and third party code

Written on June 14, 2010 – 3:52 pm | by Stan Kuhn |

Source code re-usability is one of the most important things if you plan to keep developing applications for longer. All Internet applications have set of functionalities that are common. These are for example, User management, permissions management, CMS functionality, forums, categories, menus, profiles etc. Therefore you don’t have to write a lot of code from [...]

Testing Smarty 3 beta and RC performance, comparing with Smarty 2

Written on June 4, 2010 – 8:17 pm | by Gaspo |

Smarty is template engine used for separation front-end HTML for designers and back-end PHP for programmers. We’ve been using Smarty 2 for years. Now when Smarty 3 is in Release candidate stage, its time to think about an upgrade. Smarty 3 is  rewritten from scratch in PHP 5 and its not suppose to work under [...]

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Website hack through tinyMCE filemanager plugin

Written on June 1, 2010 – 5:45 am | by Stan Kuhn |

Few days ago we realized that one of our client website is not working at all.  After short while we found that the site was probably hacked. This is a server of our client which purpose is mainly to run older non maintained projects. There was also one old Mambo CMS website installation which apart [...]