Episode 148 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Kevin Dees (@kevindees), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves) and Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — … Continue reading →

Here’s a short video that provides a tour of Salsa, which offers a suite of online organizing tools to help you build awareness, mobilize your people and keep them engaged.

MicroPHP vs Complicated PHP – Lately in PHP podcast episode 20 By Manuel Lemos Earlier in January Ed Finkler announced the MicroPHP manifesto. It seems to be a rant about against the practices of developers that make PHP development more … Continue reading →

I've recently been interfacing with a SOAP API on a .NET server and also creating an API in PHP, and both require sending a specific SOAP header for authentication. This post shows how to send a SOAP header using the PHP SOAP client which is built into PHP.
Sending an authentication header with PHP SOAP
In the case of the SOAP server I have been developing, the server requires a header to be sent which contains the API key. The header name is APIKey and the value the key itself. In the example below the namespace used for the API call is "ExampleNamespace".

The Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized program supplies partners with a host of resources to help develop, implement, and sell Oracle products. Over time, the program has been enhanced through the addition of Specializations that allow partners to differentiate themselves from competitors once they demonstrate an outstanding level of competency, expertise, and success. Tomas Ulin, Oracle's MySQL VP of engineering, commented on the new specialization: Oracle continues to innovate across the MySQL product family to address the evolving needs of both our end-user and partner community.

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I have a number of batch processes that run using PHP as the command interpreter, and discovered after making a change to one of them the other day that the variables available to PHP in the $_SERVER superglobal are different depending on whether it's run via an SSH session or cron. This post shows the difference on Debian 6. The values available are probably the same on other distros.
$_SERVER using the CLI via SSH
Using the PHP command line interpeter (CLI) the following was displayed when running print_r($_SERVER), showing which variables are available:

As an important part of PHP 5.3's new features, closures have quickly made a mark on the language's field. This is due to their versatile nature, which allows programmers to utilize them in a wide variety of use cases and situations. They not only yield great results when processing array elements in all sorts of clever ways; it's fairly easy to get excellent results with them in the object-oriented programming arena as well. The best way to show you how using anonymous functions can help you to develop more efficient OO applications is with some functional, hands-on examples.