You’ve watched RailsCasts, you’ve watched ZendCasts – but what about screencasts for PHP Cloud Development techniques? Well we decided to commit to the project and make it happen and have begun development on a new site that both pays homage to RailsCasts and ZendCasts and is devoted to bringing you, once a month (potentially once a fortnight) a screencast about a technique of cloud development through the lens of PHP.

When you’re working with Zend Form you keep your configuration as much out of code as you can – right? Well, if you’ve been working withZend Form for more than a little while, you know that Zend Config really makes that pretty simple – well, some of the time. In this series we look, comprehensively at how to do it all with Zend_Config.

Well, it’s been a little while since I last wrote an entry for the blog. It’s tough to keep writing some times, but I realise that that’s no excuse. To be honest, I’ve been flat out on a few projects recently, including one really enjoyable – yet testing – Zend framework-based application, that’s kept me [...]

In this, part four of the Beginning Cloud Development with cloudControl series, we’re going to speed up the work we undertook with MySQL in part 2 by adding Memcached support. So easy and so very painless.

Well, it’s been a good year with a steady increase in site numbers all round, but it’s become apparent over the last few months that the site needs to start to differentiate itself from the crowd and begin to provide a clearer reason for being amongst all of the other PHP-related sites out there on the net.

So what better time to do this, than the start of a new year – 2012.

In this, part 3 of the Beginning Cloud Development with cloudControl series, we integrate mongoDB support in to our application. Honestly, nothing could be simpler than this, especially as we’re using the Shanty Mongo library for Zend Framework. Read on to find out how to do it.

So you’ve gotten started with cloudControl; you’ve got a basic understanding of how to deploy with it. But today we take that further, showing you the MySQL add on and multi-environment deployment.

So you’ve heard all about the cloud. In the current day and age, you’d have to be living under a rock to have not encountered it by now. Whether it’s Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft or Apple’s iCloud, The Cloud is Everywhere! But these aren’t the only options available. Introducing cloudControl.

Want to rename a file uploaded using the Zend Framework, without hacking or lots of work? Here’s how.

The content structure of the site’s been overhauled. The url’s are now simpler and easier to understand