WSDL to PHP – Generate PHP code from a WSDL file

There are many classes available to generate a WSDL file from PHP. But I wanted to create PHP classes out of a WSDL file. SOAP allows passing complex data around and to write a SOAP client, I need to have classes defined in PHP for these complex data. I did not want to manually go […]

XPlanner PHP SOAP Client

I am working on a project management system and want to build a Mylyn plugin such that all tasks from the PMS show up in Eclipse / Aptana. I want to adapt Extreme Programming model of Iterations – User Stories and Tasks. XPlanner does this really well, and Mylyn already has an XPlanner connector. So […]

40 Tips for Optimizing PHP Performance

Reinhold Weber has written 40 Tips for Optimizing PHP performance. Many of them were new to me – e.g. $row[‘id’] is 7 times faster than $row[id]. I don’t know how he has measured these numbers, but the tips are good overall! Here are the first 10 tips: If a method can be static, declare it […]

Removing Word special characters from text / XML in PHP

Microsoft Word converts certain characters into “smart characters”. Double quotes, dashes (em dash / en dash), bullets and so on. These characters break PHP’s XML handling. (or at least they broke it for me – using simplexml_load_string!). How do you clean them? There is an old post that suggests using ereg_replace on a set of […]

Which is the best CMS in terms of usability?

I’ve been playing with a few open source CMSs for my new book. And I am actually surprised! Most of them are just so darn difficult to use! Not only they are jargon filled, but they are also unintuivie! I am looking at both user side and the admin side. I think WordPress excels in […]