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Book Review: PHP & MySQL for Dummies

January 29, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

This is another book that I purchased a while back to help me get up to speed on PHP and MySQL development. It’s a pretty straightforward book like a lot of the “for dummies” books are. Needless to say that a lot of the info in the book is kind of basic but it can […]

Project: Powersite Business Directory v1.0

January 21, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

This is a project that I have been working on for Chambers of Commerce’s and Associations that need an easy to use web-based content management solution for managing their membership database. There are a few examples of this solution online at: Heber Springs Chamber of Commerce Greers Ferry Lake & Little Red River Association As […]

Project: Powersite Real Estate CMS v1.0 Beta

January 21, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib 2 Comments

I have posted a number of posts previously about my PHP/MySQL based Real Estate Content Management Solution. I know that there are a few other options on the market, even some of them free to the end user under the open source model but I found them to be lacking in some respects so I […]

PHP 4.4.8 Released

January 19, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

This month the PHP Development Team released it’s newest update to the 4.4 development branch, it’s 4.4.8. There are a couple of bug fixes in this upgrade that might be of interest to developers who rely on PHP to develop applications. Here’s a short excerpt from the PHP website, you can click on the changelog […]

Book Review: Sitepoint’s Build a Database Driven Website…

January 15, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

Sitepoint Books are usually very well written books and this one is one is no different, it’s a great read and I recommend it to everyone who asks about good books they can pick up to learn more about web development. This is another book that I keep on the bookshelf behind my desk and […]

PHP Code Generation with Elisp

December 17, 2007 by Cotton Rohrscheib 1 Comment

One of the frustrations for me going into a PHP/MySQL Project is that there’s plenty of near-repetition involved software development; writing very similar code over and over again. Stop copying, pasting, and modifying, and start automating the process! Zachary Kessin shows how to use Emacs Lisp to generate useful and reusable database-access code for PHP. […]