I got a good news to share with you! You might know that I was writing a book titled Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook from Packt Publishing. My book has been uploaded and available for buying. I am pretty much happy with it! For those who have no idea what I am talking about: It is a book both on paper back and pdf format available to buy from Packt Publishing, Amazon and book stores. This book has 12 chapters with more than 80 real world...

I am writing this post with a great satisfaction in mind as still I can feel it. In Bangladesh we have a lot of possibilities on software development field. There are lots of potential developers are coming out from various public and private universities. Unfortunately our curriculum is not yet there to prepare a fresh graduate to compete the fast paced development world. This is why a community is prevalent to groove the developers....

What is Doctrine? Doctrine is a popular ORM for PHP which works with RDBMS via PHP objects. This is built inspired by Hibernate from JAVA. This acts as an abstraction layer between PHP and RDBMS. What is it good for? It really hide the the business logics (tables, sql, relations) via the db abstraction layer while active record map objects to tables. It has a strong caching (of cached caching) system with apc, memcached, sqlite Caching...

We must have seen the human readable time in twitter saying that something like about 2 hours ago… etc. In this post we will see a walk around on how to do it in a Symfony2, Zend Framework2 or any other PHP based application. I wrote and used this class as helper in one of my Symfony2 project. This helper could be used in Zend Framework as well. I used some PHP magic methods to cope with different configuration settings so that any...