Archive for April, 2009

One of the features of the Zend Platform is the Job Queue, a server application that is able to schedule and manage the execution of php scripts (jobs).
The Job Queue can be used to create asyncronous execution of php script and provide, for instance, the scalability of a server application (for more info read the [...]

Today i created an example in PHP to display data into a Google map. I used my GMaps class (see my previous post) to retrieve geographic information for all the provinces of Italy, as you know i’m italian. I inserted all the data into a table of MySQL with the following fields: id, province, code, [...]

The Google Maps API are a very useful system to get geographic information. Maybe you are thinking cool! but i’m not a GIS developer so why i need to continue to read this post? Let me do an example. Scenario: you have to check the validity of the geo data of a list of customers [...]


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This is my personal blog about computer programming in PHP for business and passion. I'm Enrico Zimuel a Software Engineer since 1996. I work as Senior Consultant & Architect at Zend Technologies. For more info about me visit my web site.

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  • Enrico Zimuel: Hi David, unfortunately the i5_spool can manage only strings, no images. If you need to convert comp [...]
  • David Porter: Zimuel, Thanks for the Spool Class and information on using the i5 Toolkit for strong i5/OS inter [...]
  • ninon: Hi!! thanks for your article, it's been so useful to me. I'm novice in zend and I've a doubt. I ha [...]
  • snow boots: Using the Google Maps API you can easly compare the data stored into your database with the google d [...]
  • Enrico Zimuel: To use the ZendAPI_Queue you have to run your PHP application using Zend Platform (http://www.zend.c [...]
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