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Came across this new Social sign-in library which goes by the name of HybridAuth. Seems like it is a good tool when you want to let your users sign-in to your website without registering to your site.

Will give a try sometime later. Check it out here!

Yeah you read that right. With some time before PHP6 comes into the fore, i want PHP6 to be a real path breaker. That means effectively no backward compatibility. PHP5 was slow in adoption just because of this reason. People knew that their applications would work on PHP5, that is why they were in no real hurry to adopt it.

I want the core developers team of PHP to really do some nice things with PHP. For noobies PHP5 should be kept. But with PHP 6 i want them to break new grounds. Like APC (Alternative PHP Cache) should be part of the standard install. I want them to incorporate consistent naming schema for at least in-built functions. That means str_replace => natsort?? kind of naming schema should be made consistent.

I want PHP6 to be more serious about security. It should have features which would make incidence of user oversight things of past. I want the in-built functions in PHP6 to raise exceptions. I want PHP6 to have variable types. I mean i declare a variable to be of type INT and i want PHP6 to raise an error if it is used in string context.

With these changes i can see PHP6 gaining the respectability it deserves. It can move to the area called enterprise platform.

I know it sounds too ambitious but couldn't help but dig it ;) . Well if you have dipped your toes in PHP and you are comfortable working with PHP this guide is for you. If you are unsatisfied with the current way of structuring your application then this guide might help you.

So lets start with the folder structure. The way you structure your application is crucial. Here is what i have come up with. This structure is only suggestive, you are free to modify it to suit your taste.

• Classes: Store all your classes and helper code here.
• Conf: This holds your configuration files needed for your application.
• Cron: Holds all files which needs to run as cron job.
• Includes: Store all your function files here.
• Js: Javascript code plus any helper code like WYSIWYG editor etc.
• Locale: Create folders for every language you plan to support and create language files which you can call depending upon the configuration settings.
• Pages: All the pages which perform some directly visible action are stored here. Rest can be stored in the helper sub-directory.
• Setup: Some scripts which can generate configuration files plus some SQL files needed for your application.
• Style: All CSS + Images, can be organised using themes folder.
• Templates: Divided in two sections. Forms stores all the form templates and layout stores what else layout templates.
• Tmp: Store temporary files or stuff which is not private. You can use this folder to store cached files in your site as well.

Now the root folder would contain only three files, index.php, config.php and .htaccess. The index.php file acts as a router and translates the GET url to load the particular file. For example consider this URL:
http://yoursite.com/app/index.php?action=login

The index page catches the "action" parameter and loads the login.php file and depending upon the current state plus extra variables performs some action.

Lets get an overview of the index.php file

require_once( DIRNAME(__FILE__) .'/includes/app_init.php');

This line invokes the file which does all the initiation stuff, like loading the configuration file, loading the framework, loading the default template, defining some variables etc.

Those of you who are looking for a good library package to create visually appealing graphs or charts using GD library and wish some package was there which was GPL'ed then look no far. Artichow graph library is the perfect candidate which fits this description. While i like Jpgraph but the fact that its not GPL'ed makes me crib.

Since the library is in French i suggest you use Google translator to navigate the site.

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