PHP.Architect.February.2010.pdf

CONTENTS

FEbRUARy 2010

FEATURES

COLUMNS

Creating Custom CMS Solutions with Digitalus Framework

Get the Content You Need

Forrest Lyman

4 Editorial — Elizabeth Tucker Long

Our Legacy

6 Drupal Corner — Adrian Webb

Setting Up Drupal on a VPS

Managing Hierarchical Data in a CMS

Get Your Process in Gear

Ron Dobley

53 Security Roundup — Arne Blankerts

Privacy? What Privacy?

FaZend: Object Relational Mapping

PDF Management Made Easy

Yegor Bugayenko

55 exit(0); — Marco Tabini

D is for Detail

Building an Application in the Clouds

PHP & Windows Azure

Maarten Balliauw

Web-based Retrieval Part II

Straightening Out the Curls

Sharon Levy

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EDITORIAL

Are Your Links Blue ?

February 2010

Volume 9 - Issue 2

Publisher

Arbi Arzoumani

Elizabeth Tucker Long

Editor-in-Chief

Elizabeth Tucker Long

usability, and I came across this article, "10

Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines" by

Dmitry Fadeyev ( http://www.smashingmagazine.

com/2009/09/24/10-useful-usability-findings-and-

guidelines/ ). It is not a new article, originally

published on the 24th of September, 2009, but its

information is still timely. It covers just a few basic

things that you can do to improve usability and ef-

ficiency on your site. I was not surprised to find out

that users focus on faces on a site, so if you have a

photo of a person on your site, that area of the site

will get looked at more (based on an eye-tracking

study). However, I was intrigued to find out that

you could direct that increased focus to other areas

of your site by using a face that looks directly at

the text that you want to highlight.

The thing I really liked about this article was that

it took other longer studies and distilled them into

a list that I could scan through. It quickly gave me

tangible things that I could do to improve my sites.

I like that. There are so many things to read and

keep track of, that it gets overwhelming at times.

It's nice to have someone go through the details and

give the rest of us the highlights.

This is exactly what we are doing on the new

php|architect homepage. Our team of professionals

finds the exciting news for you and distills it down

to a quick blurb to get you the facts you need. You

can still get to the longer versions of the stories, if

you'd like to read more, but this way, you can stay

on top of the major talking points in our field with-

out losing half of your day dredging through news

sites, blogs, and search engine results. To make it

just a little more convenient, you don't even have to

remember to visit our homepage, just grab our RSS

feed.

And speaking of making your day easier, we have a

bunch of articles this month to make your develop-

ment easier. Forrest's article on Digitalus Framework

will make writing custom CMS solutions simple, and

Sharon's article is going to make it easier to work

with remote files. Maarten will show you how easy it

can be to build a scalable application in the cloud,

and Yegor introduces us to FaZend, which will help

you build Zend Framework apps. Ron wants to help

makes your data structure decisions easier, and

Adrian shares some secrets to make installing Drupal

on a VPS a snap. Arne has some security tips for your

privacy, and Marco wraps up the details.

Author Liaison

Cathleen MacIsaac

Technical Editors

Stacie Arellano, Simon Harris, Jonathan Stark

Graphics & Layout

Arbi Arzoumani

Managing Editor

Arbi Arzoumani

Authors

Maarten Balliauw, Arne Blankerts, Yegor

Bugayenko, Ron Dobley, Sharon Levy, Forrest

Lyman, Marco Tabini, Adrian Webb

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