PHP Sendmail Setup with SMTP IIS and Windows Servers

June 17, 2008 at 6:33 pm · Filed under Articles, Development, Interesting, Windows, php

Did you had problems setting up PHP on a Windows server which is running IIS and also running a SMTP server inside IIS? Have you faced problems sending mail from PHP scripts running on IIS server with IIS SMTP engine? By default IIS doesn’t allow relaying SMTP mails if it comes from 3rd party products. So this problem is related to IIS SMTP “Relay Restrictions”. Sometimes some of my clients are using PHP on windows servers using IIS 6 as the web server. In linux PHP supports native sendmail system from the OS itself. But in windows you need to tweak your way to make PHP able to send out mail from localhost. If you are a .Net developer, you might already know that from ASP.Net codes or even Classic Asp code it’s just as simple as 1,2,3 to send out email or use the IIS local SMTP server. Let me make it simple for you, so that you guys can make use of the localhost server from PHP.

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Wordpress 2.5 - The Upgrade Resources

March 28, 2008 at 1:43 am · Filed under Articles, Wordpress, php

Wordpress 2.5 Release Candidate 2 has been released and There are a lot of new features included within. Let me list down some of them:

The New Looks:

1. New customizable dashboard.. yeah it’s more slick and organized now..
2. Built in Image Gallery system, one click multi files uploader.. Check out the screencast by matt
3. Categories in Editor interface also improved with multi-level and most used categories options.
   
4. Changes in Editor interface, it’s possible to have full screen editor, a toolbar button to create a gallery

   

5. The Manage screens have been redesigned and unified so that now, managing your pages, posts, media, and comments all use similar, consistent interfaces.
   
6. Navigation bars has been improved for professionals and novices alike.
7. The base code has been optimized for much more stable better performance.

Now you might be excited and obviously worried about the upgrade process on the road to wordpress 2.5 but it’s not a prime time to upgrade it.. Just take your time, download it, do the testing on your local server (you can use EasyPHP, XAMPP or WAMP for testing), test out your themes and check which plugins are not working. Here is a link roll to shorten your research about upgrading: Read the rest of this entry »

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PHP5 Frameworks including PHP-AJAX Link Roll

February 14, 2008 at 12:29 am · Filed under Development, Interesting, LinkRoll, php

Here are some of the Top PHP5 Frameworks and PHP5-Ajax Frameworks that is around the Net. Almost all of them are GPL/Open Source.

1. CakePHP Framework
   CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.
2. PRADO PHP Framework
   PRADO is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5. PRADO stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented
3. Avesta - Zend-based PHP5 web framework
   Avesta is a rapid development PHP5 framework built on top of the Zend Framework libraries that emphasizes strict MVC separation and development speed
4. BlueShoes php application framework and php cms
   BlueShoes is a comprehensive application framework and content management system. It is written in the widely used web-scripting language PHP.
5. Zephyr
   Zephyr is an MVC (model-view-controller) framework and supports complete separation of business logic layer from presentation layer. It is built using popular and tested libraries in backend
6. Tigermouse
   Tigermouse is object oriented, LGPL licensed PHP/AJAX framework for development of highly interactive web applications in MVC architecture. It requires no to little Javascript coding, no manual callbacks handling and no configuration
7. AModules3
   AModules3 is the whole new concept to fully use potential of PHP5. Having conceptually proper MVC implementation, support for multiple APIs and fully OOP design makes it very good choice for writing serious applications
8. Akelos PHP Framework
   The Akelos Framework is Akelos is a PHP4 and PHP5 port of Ruby on Rails Web Development Framework
9. symfony - open-source PHP5 web framework
   Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.
10. PHITE
    PHITE is a simple but powerful site framework written in PHP
11. Carthag applications platform
    Carthag’s main purpose is to bring PHP at the Enterprise level. This is achieved by using new PHP 5 OOP features, adopting Design Patterns and bringing some other platforms ideas (in particular Java) to Carthag.
12. Solar Framework for PHP 5
    The Simple Object Library and Application Repository (SOLAR) is a library-like framework organized in a fashion similar to PEAR and Horde, and is PHP5
13. HTML_AJAX
    HTML_AJAX PHP and JavaScript AJAX library
14. jMaki
    jMaki is an Ajax framework that provides a lightweight model for creating JavaScript centric Ajax-enabled web applications using Java, Ruby, PHP, and Phobos
15. Cajax
    Cajax is a PHP object-oriented framework to create and handle server-side requisitions through javascript remote calls
16. tppAJAX
    tppAJAX is a lightweight, yet feature-rich PHP and Ajax toolkit that is compatible with PHP versions 4 and 5

More AJAX PHP Listing at Ajaxpatterns.org

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