Tutorials by porteightyeight

This article examines how PHP handles passing of variables internally, as well as how this relates to memory usage. This information is can be very useful for any professional PHP developer as it shows how passing variables by reference will normally result in more (not less) memory being used.

CouchDB is part of a new breed of database systems, increasingly being used to create cutting-edge PHP web applications. This blog posts walks you through installing CouchDB on CentOS Linux.

Find out how to use in-function caching to increase your web application's performance.

This tutorial discusses creating an advanced fuzzy search engine using PHP and a database. The tutorial uses the example of a wiki application, but the concepts can easily be applied to other applications in different languages.