Live video streaming with PHP

18 October 2010 · 1 min read

Picture this. We want to stream live video. In fact don’t need PHP. We only need a flash player (or HTML5) and our live feed. The problem appear when we need to offer some kind of security.

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Motivation

This paper is intended to try to improve the next version of Cake. I think one of the most important features of a framework is its capacity to be expanded. Plugins achieve that gracefully. But there is a problem; plugins, as read on tempdocs, are meant to be packages. I think they can be much more. This is mainly a software design problem.

Where they fail

Point #1

Cake creates conventions for everything turning controllers, models and views universal. Same happens to plugins, but because of namespace concerns it is recommended to developers to include plugins name in controllers, models and views names. So a blog plugin would have BlogPost and BlogComment as models, BlogPosts and BlogComments as controllers. That’s fine to me (and recommended) but the Router should be smart so it won’t be necessary URI’s like /blog/blogPosts.

Magic Objects

20 August 2007 · 2 min read

PHP

Today I’m going to present a function that most of the PHP community doesn’t know about. It falls under the “magic functions”, was included in PHP5, but needs to be defined.

In medium-scale projects where we have more than a few files, it’s almost certain that we’ll be using classes and including them from external files.

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This is a typical example of a simple/complex application. We include our file on every page where we’ll need a database connection and on each of them we instantiate our object.

Beginners' Guide

14 August 2007 · 1 min read

Guide PHP

This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it suitable for those of you who already have worked with PHP 4 in the past.
If you came here to learn about elementary PHP 4 or basic PHP 5, this is for you. Enjoy!

PHP Console

13 August 2007 · 4 min read

PHP

Have you ever wondered if it would be possible to execute PHP files from the command line, just like C or Pascal programs?

Besides being kind of fun, you’ve probably actually needed to do this at some point and didn’t know how. Imagine a PHP file that would run when the server started (or your locally installed server) and would take care of deleting old forum messages or updating the statistics of a file manager.