In this book review Dennis Pallett reviews “PHP 5 Objects, Patterns and Practice” written by Matt Zandstra and published by Apress.

Learn more about Test Driven Development in this article. Dennis Pallett will show you how to apply the principles of Test Driven Development with an example project.

In this article Dennis Pallett takes a first look at the AutoCRUD for PHP library, a database abstraction library for MySQL offering some unique features.

This tutorial will show you exactly how to create your own HTML widgets. Dennis Pallett takes you through the basics, and slowly moves to the advanced functionality, finishing with a practical example.

Start fighting back against spam with the Akismet web service. In this article Dennis Pallett shows you how to integrate it in your own PHP scripts. Live examples and demo code included.

Learn how to create ZIP and TAR archives on the fly using PHP and the PEAR::Archive_Zip and PEAR::Archive_Tar packages in this tutorial, by Dennis Pallett.

In this first ever book review on PHPit Dennis Pallett reviews “Ajax and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications“, from Packt Publishing.

In this new article series Dennis Pallett takes a look at the WinBinder library. In the first part you will learn what the WinBinder library is, and you’ll be given two simple examples.

Learn more about the CURL library in this article. Dennis Pallett will take you through the basics of the CURL library, including its options and various functions.

In this article Dennis Pallett explains what the output buffer is, how to use it, and shares some neat tricks possible with the output buffer. Samples and demo code included.