Dreamweaver Provides Sophisticates for PHP Development

Expert PHP developers have started using Dreamweaver CS5 as a development platform to develop their PHP projects. Though beginners find it complicated to get used to the technology itself, programmers with sufficient experience in PHP find it to be a highly evolved platform.

It is expected that beginners with the knowledge of the existence of Dreamweaver CS5 cam learn the aspects of PHP in a more beginner friendly environment and then start using Dreamweaver. Understanding the features of PHP added in the Dreamweaver platform helps a PHP developer to be aware of the features provided by it.

Numbering Lines

Dreamweaver by default numbers each and every line that has been written by the PHP programmer developing a project. This is a very important function as PHP error messages are always addressed to the line in which the error has occurred and such a function makes it very simple for the PHP programmers to identify the location in which an error or bug has been made. This numbering is shown in an individual column to the left side of the code in the corresponding line.

When the developers press Enter/Return during the process of coding, the active line goes to the next and it is numbered accordingly. Dreamweaver also makes it possible for developers to enable and disable this option of numbering the lines through View > Toolbars > Coding but the coding toolbar cannot be turned off in the code inspector.

Syntax Coloring

The different elements of the PHP code can be identified easily using the different color schemes used for individual elements provided by Dreamweaver. Each color assigned by the platform explains the functionality of keywords in the syntax.

Tags and strings in the code are assigned the color of red, green color indicates reserved keywords, functions are blue in color and variables are indicated in a lighter blue than functions. The main advantage of coloring the syntaxes is that when a color is displayed in an inconsistent way then the PHP developer can understand that there is an error in that particular line. The most common error made in a code by a programmer is a missing or mismatched quotation mark.

These colors assigned by default can be changed from the edit menu in the Windows platform whereas in Mac it can be changed in the Dreamweaver menu option. The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+U/Cmd+U can also be used for opening the preferences option.

Dreamweaver syntax coloring still does not support two types of project development which are heredoc and nowdoc syntax. The normal coding can be manipulated under the “Styles” option where the coloring option can be changed to suit the developers comfort.

When some programmers find the coloring option unnecessary then this option can be turned off by accessing View > Code View Options > Syntax Coloring. Though this option is available, the use of syntax coloring has been highly appreciated by all PHP developers and PHP programmers.

These are some of the basic effective options that are provided by the Dreamweaver application for the PHP development technology.

DCKAP and its team of PHP programmers have been serving clients with competent, extensible and innovative designs of PHP products. This team of PHP developers has a keen eye for details and delivers the requirements of the clients exceeding their expectations.

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Latest Version of Adobe Flash Player Fixes Critical Bugs

DCKAP has been developing Flash projects with high competence for its clients. The advantages of Flash are numerous and it has redefined the way websites look these days. The aspect of interactivity has advanced rapidly mainly because of Flash.

The Flash Player which is one of the most popular players to be in use today has undergone various changes. Recently it has made six critical updates which have been discussed to be highly important. Four among these issues have been related to corruption of memory which leads to remote code execution. Additionally, the update fixes an integer overflow vulnerability that could also lead to remote code execution. 

The other fixed bug was a cross domain information leak, which actually raised a lot of inconsistencies in the domain front of information being parsed to the website. These issues were predominantly present in the Flash Player 11.3.300.271 version and version prior to it. The platforms in which these bugs were prominent were Windows, Linux and Macintosh.

Unusually these bugs were marked critical by Adobe and were addressed at a very rapid pace. The security bulletin of the company did not reveal any detailed information about the errors. But immediately updates were made with bug fixes from the Adobe side. The updates which were available for Android were provided to devices which had Flash Player installed in them before August 15^th only.

Windows and Mac OS users were able to obtain the updates from the Flash Player Download Center but a single system was not allowed to update twice on the same page. Other systems were able to update using a different page.

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Third Dimension in Flash Enables Web Sophistication

Adobe Flash has been able to retain its popularity and reputation solely because of its capacity to scale itself to meet the requirements of users which changes drastically within short spans of time. Evolution of Flash and the ActionScript platform has been highly resourceful enabling Flash developers to develop entities in high standards.

Users from all over the globe have become very sophisticated and the websites they have started using are also expected to be top-notch. The progress in technological advancements has been rapid in the last decade keeping the process of development of other technologies on their toes. The increase in bandwidth especially has made it simpler for end users to access material on the web which is more evolved and browse through web pages rich content within seconds. From being a simple platform for developing vector animations for the web, it has matured into one used to develop complex applications run on multiple platforms.

The applications developed by Flash programmers tend to consist of graphics, animation, video and sound. These media content is completely controlled in the Adobe Flash platform using ActionScript 3.0 which is a powerful language using object oriented programming. The latest inclusion in Flash’s process of evolution is the addition of the 3^rd dimension in its applications and games.

Already there are various 3D features existing in Adobe Flash Player and Flash Professional CS5 which have been used to develop projects using the Adobe Flash platform and ActionScript 3.0. The advancements which have been planned in the Flash platform are anticipated to enable a Flash developer to integrate add-ons to enhance the 3^rd dimensional functionality during project development.

Flash professional CS4 was the first version to integrate 3D in the flash platform for flash developers to use although many other developers have found methods to simulate 3D attributes in their Flash projects. As of this version of Flash, the video content integrated in a project can be enhanced to have 3 dimensions. This can be done using the options available in the interface of Flash or by utilizing the coding aspect of ActionScript. Objects in the flash platform used to have the horizontal property of ‘x’ and the vertical property of ‘y’. In addition to these two dimensions a Flash programmer can add third dimension of ‘z’ which will define the depth of the object to their project. Additional functionalities of moving and rotating the object in the 3D space can also be activated using this version of Flash.   

Using these options the objects which are still in 2 dimensions can be manipulated and observed on the 3D space. Even by using a third party platform these actions can be performed by the Flash ActionScript programmers. By default the Flash platform considers the objects as two dimensional only, only when the object which is placed is altered it starts taking the 3^rd dimension into consideration.

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Versatilities of Magento Development

Magento has been consistently proving that it is one of the most versatile platforms available today for developing an ecommerce website. The benefits it provides the merchants are various which helps them to scale their businesses effortlessly.

Enhanced Provisions for Simple Customization

Apart from simple web developing solutions Magento also enables full-fledged provision of entrepreneurial solutions for businesses and merchants looking for scalability options. These provisions give access to the Magento developers into exclusive access into the code base and database. This technology also enables a Magento developer to develop prototypes with just the base model of the project that needs to be built.

Apart from the strong Application Programming Interface, Magento also provides thousands of extensions which can be downloaded for free or bought online from various stores. Targeting individual customers, through website built using Magento and its scalable options, becomes very simple. The support provided to these individual stores by the team of Magento programmers is also very resourceful in tackling glitches from the technological side.

Unique Sites Easy to Build Using Magento

Every ecommerce website owner wants to make an impression unique for that particular store which will make the visitor come for more. There must be something unique and different about a store compared to other stores selling similar products which will make a visitor go back to it again. This is relatively simpler in Magento to achieve because of the scalable features it provides a web developer to work on to implement in the ecommerce store.

While developing an ecommerce site the Magento programmer has to keep in mind the functionality of the store. If this aspect is not taken care properly then the chances of the website turning redundant are very high and this might make the website less informative than it can be. The optimal customizing tools in Magento help the Magento programmers to develop websites and customize in adaptable ways which can enhance the efficacy of the website and the store.

Magento Integration

Integration with CRM and ERP systems is possible with the open-source management of Magento services. It can also be integrated with domain-specific modules like accounting, business outsourcing, reporting, business intelligence, shipping/logistics applications etc. Merchants obtain required sites as their ecommerce platform from experts of developing Magento projects and customizing them. Magento can be integrated into a system which is already established and is running. This can be done to ease the flow of marketing and selling products. But this process of integration has to be done carefully as the possibilities of creating inconsistencies are very high. 

Getting and Executing Magento

Magento for Enterprises have to be bought or subscribed for a year. There are other options available which can be used for bigger merchants for multiple years with multi-server options. Magento developers can choose the version of Magento platform they need to build on according to the requirements of merchants.

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Optimizing Database for Ruby on Rails Development

Database is one of the most important entities of the Ruby on Rails platform and its dependency on the database is very intricate and intense. Optimizing the database is one of the key tasks the developers try to perform in order to develop the functioning of the project. There are various ways in which the database can be optimized.

Ruby on Rails Developers migrate databases to new and separate servers. Moving the database to an individual server enables in adding resources exclusively for the database instead of fighting for resources with Ruby. This process is comparatively a simple one if a Ruby on Rails developer is planning to scale a website and it can be done using general Rails hosting providers. 

The features available in a database are always going to be more than what is required by a Ruby on Rails programmer to program a website using the platform. To save some resources in the server and to stop the database from using resources unnecessarily, the programmer can switch off some features which were configured in the Database and are not being used currently. Remote connections, unused database engines (MyISAM vs InnoDB), or optional authentication settings like LDAP are some examples of features which are used by resources which can be switched off for saving resources.

One of the most efficient ways of optimizing a database is by setting up a database cluster. The process of creating a database cluster involves in the combination of two or more servers and getting them connected to the database on which the project is being built. Ruby on Rails programmers can avoid bottle necks by connecting their websites to a random server for fetching data efficiently.      Thus a website in a database which is connected to 4 servers can fetch data from all 4 servers and each of the servers will be handling 1/4^th of the website’s traffic to the server through the database.

A common way of setting up a cluster is the master/slave method where one server is a master and the other servers connected act as slaves. The master server has the original copy of the data and the other servers connected have copies of the database. 

Developers can analyze the scope of their websites and according to the data it has the data can be segregated into second or third database. This database can be of the same type of MySQL as the main application or it can be of a different type like MongoDB etc. Elements which are commonly separated are details of users logging into the website and other site details regarding the history of usage.

Using a database caching layer is the most effective way of fastening and enhancing the efficiency of a database. This caching layer sits between the application and the server and it caches queries for a brief period of time, this saves time in fetching a single content over and over again. Instead for fetching a single data from the server hundred times, the caching layer saves the record temporarily and produces it instantaneously a hundred times. 

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PHP Development Scales for Developer’s Benefit

PHP development of website has taken a different turn recently and the companies providing PHP projects to clients have understood this to start providing with various new options. The opportunities of widening the scope of developing websites driven by databases have grown rapidly. 

Ease of Using PHP

PHP has been the most efficient language for developing web based applications and sites compared with its peers. The framework used by PHP is LAMP and it is executed and hosted on web servers. The advantages provided by PHP to its developers such as providing security for the developers’ data, the easy navigation through configuration, user friendly platform, optimization of speed etc, has enabled PHP to stay in top amongst all web developing technologies. PHP’s integration of MySQL in its developments also enables the PHP developers to attain ease of having control over the queries involved in the process of development.  

  

Learning to develop using PHP has been proved to be a simple task. Upcoming PHP programmers find it simple to use real world examples to learn PHP in a very rapid pace. With the help of object oriented programming the PHP platform can help even amateur developers to build projects but risks of erring is also high.

PHP Enable High Productivity

PHP has been gradually moving towards a new field of service based architecture. This architecture for web services help in web solutions such as protocols enhancing interoperability, providing usability during the process of development, enabling PHP programmers to integrate business modules such as databases in a web application etc. The increase in efficiency brought in by the seamless transfer of information between a client and their customer is very high which in turn brings high productivity.

PHP Turns Powerful When Collaborated with MySQL

Site which develop PHP sites have been helping businesses with their proficient web solutions for the services the companies provide. A website which is developed to be database driven using MySQL and PHP has numerous advantages when compared with other single framework websites. This website will provide many benefits to the client when information has to be changed or designs have to be changed.

Many projects have been completed using the powerful collaboration of MySQL and PHP. These projects have experienced various benefits like programming efficiency; effortless maintenance of webpage; adding, manipulating and deleting information becomes simple; and competent server support.

Featured Benefits of PHP Development

The richness provided by PHP is invariably great and the websites designed using the PHP platform also look sophisticated and large. As PHP is an open source project the cost involved in the development and maintenance is comparatively lesser. This is an advantage to the upcoming PHP developers without much financial backing to develop projects on their own. This platform provides a PHP developer with various levels of quality checking and analysis tools and methods which makes compiling and debugging very simple.

As PHP has made customization of web development very simple, a PHP programmer can comfortably develop sites according to the needs of clients.

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