PHPDevShell

The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will dramatically change your Internet experience and put an end to reddit and many other sites you use everyday. ... [More] Internet experts, organizations, companies, entrepreneurs, legal experts, journalists, and individuals have repeatedly expressed how dangerous this bill is. read more [Less]

If you are anything like me, you would want examples to just get started. PHPDevShell ships with a neat ExamplePlugin that shows you exactly how to get the ball rolling in a matter of minutes. It should be remembered that PHPDevShell will in no way ... [More] dictate how you work, it does offer you guidelines on how some things could be done to organize your work in a neat way. read more [Less]

Slicehost provided all of this, thousands of developers adored them, and then the unfortunate happened, they were bought and consumed by a large corporate firm who is not in touch with their developers and immediately started limiting freedom. We all ... [More] knew the time came to move away from them, and hundreds if not thousands did. Very few other cloud providers were so dedicated towards their developers. read more [Less]

Starting with 3.0.5, PHPDS_dependant offers a little new trick: read-only fields. The problem is, when in a class you have a field which should be readable but not writable, you are often lead to make it protected and write an accessor. The resulting ... [More] code is, well, not really smart: class service extends PHPDS_dependant { protected $quality = 'great'; public function quality() { return $this->quality; } } From now on, just add the field, it will be read-only by default. read more [Less]

Source: DZone; Recently, the voting process for PHP 5.4 open to committers and users have been closed. We now have a clear picture of what will make the release and what will be left out. Some of these features (traits, web server) were already in ... [More] , while other have been just voted and will be completed before the general availability of the release. read more [Less]

Host1Plus in joint venture with PHPDevShell will be giving away free virtual hosting environments worth $1,5 million for PHPDevShell developers. Currently they are on schedule to launch their beta cloud in the new datacenter which is located in ... [More] Frankfurt Main, Germany. Cloud is without a doubt the future. This campaign will give you the opportunity to test your next PHPDevShell application in the cloud without it costing you a dime. read more [Less]

Over the years the folder of each plugin has receive more and more structured stuffs. It's becoming quite cluttered and I feel it need some cleanup. Here is my proposition on a structure we could use: Folder/plugins/my-plugins/... Usage Note ... [More] ...config/ holds the plugin.config.xml file, used by the Plugin Admin, and host-related config files. read more [Less]

(this will be part of the documentation, one day, but currently it's a work in progress so the APIs are not stable) PHPDevShell provides a simple forms module. That means it helps you create simple forms easily. That also means if you need complex ... [More] forms, you probably need more than this plugin. There are two goals aimed with this plugins: - it should be possible to create forms in basic html (for non-php fluent designers) - it should provide data checking, specified only once (for both JS dynamic check and PHP post check) read more [Less]

If you're using the controller class, you're writing the content of a method. Although you can just write your logic and not return anything, you can also return some values to instruct the framework of some special cases. (this is experimental for ... [More] 3.0.4 and currently only for the viaAJAX() method) There are basically 4 regular cases and a special case : - if you return nothing (i.e. null), the output is handled the usual way, in other words the whole page is built from the current theme template (it's the common case for direct requests or ajax request who expect a complete page). read more [Less]

PHPDevShell offers a very unique and powerful way of displaying content to the end user. You are truly limitless in regards with displaying content using whatever laying, technology or style prefer. Latest technologies like HTML5 integrates ... [More] seamlessly. You can even use CSS frameworks without any hassles at all. You will learn to adore the powerful template engine of PHPDevShell. read more [Less]