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Just found this great article for PHP beginners. In server variables you could find very useful information about server variables like script path, execution time and much more.

You guys must have know about server variables in PHP. Server Variables are those variables which are inside the super global array named $_SERVER available in PHP. There are many server variables in PHP and some of them are very useful for fore developing PHP projects. I’m going to post here some of the very useful server variables available in PHP development.

Author describes 8 most useful variables.

If you looking for some good tutorial to start learning AJAX with jQuery Developer Tutorial lunched great tutorial with good documented source code examples.

AJAX is probably the biggest thing you can add to your site; with AJAX, you can dramatically increase functionality, and give your end users more usable web applications. But AJAX is tricky to get started with - it usually requires very complex JavaScript knowledge. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to get started with AJAX using the jQuery JavaScript framework.

In this article author describes how to make user authorization with AJAX and jQuery.

Recently was realized new version of popular IDE NetBeans. This new version comes with PHP support - code highlighting, debugging and much more.

The NetBeans IDE is a modular, standards-based, integrated development environment (IDE) written in the Java programming language. The NetBeans project consists of an open source IDE and an application platform, which can be used as a generic framework to build any kind of application.

New and very useful part of great Zend Framework application example has landed. In this part author shows how to make authorization module for Zend Framework application and how to style it.

Today’s entry concerns authorisation. We previously covered how to authenticate an author to the blog, but we still have nothing ensuring only authenticated authors can access the new Administration Module. This is the domain of Zend_Acl, an implementation of an Access Control List system which limits access to resources by the roles assigned to a user.

How usual you would find full source code and SVN repositories.

Found great article in Sitepoint about php tools for in-browser develop. It describes Xdebug, symphony development toolbar and other great tools.

While debuggers exists, there isn’t much of a tradition for using them in PHP. People have largely come to rely on injecting debugging code directly into the program, for inspecting program scope. The infamous var_dump have served for this purpose and version 4.3.0 of PHP brought us another equally useful function — debug_backtrace.

I think everyone must know how it is important  to debug code.

Belgian PHP developer realized new and stable version of his PHP templating engine named Dwoo. This is very similar to Smarty but has some great features.

Four months have passed since I started on this project and I finally feel that it is stable enough to make an announcement and have more people trying it.

Not tried this but i think i would try in couple of days.

Zend Developer Zone posted new article how to synchronize Drupal modules with Adobe AIR. In tutorial you would find code examples and full source code.

Whether you’re an enterprise developer working in a large shop or setting up a blog for yourself, you’ve almost certainly been tasked with keeping your development code in sync with some type of stable release. Whether a project is big or small, you still need to ensure that the core code you work with remains consistent. This article will walk you through the development of an Adobe AIR and AJAX application used to synchronize the modules of a site developed in Drupal, the popular free and open-source content management system used in thousands of sites across the Internet.

Today has been posted new part in tutorial series of creating blog application using Zend Framework. Pádraic Brady in this part shows how to use Zend_form and Zend_Auth libraries.

In the previous entry, we created a new Administration Module to hold blog management functionality, added a Module specific layout for it, and discussed the upcoming need to ensure this is only accessible by authorised Authors. In this entry I’ll unravel some of Zend_Form’s mysteries in adding a login form, before using Zend_Auth to implement authentication for authors.

In this part you would find many grate information how to build authentication system for your application using Zend Framework.

Sometimes PHP developers need execute some kind of shell commands. Sometimes these commands has user input so it is logical that there can be some security holes. To avoid such kind of security holes SecuriTeam published new article describing  some PHP build in functions:

In PHP there exist two functions to escape shell commands or arguments to shell commands that are used in PHP applications to protect against shell command injection vulnerabilities.

Adam Charnock on his blog wrote new post how you can debug your PHP applications. In article is shown 9 debugging methods you should use.

Isn’t writing new code great? Wouldn’t the world be a better place if all were ever had to do is write software from scratch, not having to worry about methods of classes past? Unfortunately, we all know that this is not the case. In fact, estimates say that we spend around 80% of our programming time maintaining old code. So for this blog post will be trying to tackle that 80%, and I will see what I can do to make it less painful.

All methods in his articles comes with examples how to use them. In article author shows from basic debugging to advanced debugging tools.