Brown PHP

The XMPP-Protocol (which is the official name of the “Jabber”-Protocol) is released under open source, Jabber itself has many advantages in comparison to other instant messaging protocols:

It’s open source
It’s based on plain-text, xml-style data
Everyone can set up a own Jabber-Server
It’s decentralized: There are now “central” servers

There are some implementation of this protocol for PHP:

XMPPHP (successor [...]

Show the Twitter Love!

I recently got an email from a reader asking me if I could help them with a small script to post updates to a Twitter account using PHP. I figured this might be something that a few others might be interested in, so I decided to post about it.
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The past few months I have been using Twitter a lot.  I’m trying to find and follow people that are heavily involved with PHP or at least providing knowledgeable Tweets about PHP.  I guess you could say that I am [...]