Php is my server side scripting language of choice. I've been having some fun on some big database projects using php and mysql.

Recently I build a big intranet tool for a computer hardware company looking to manage repair orders for their parts. The final product used a cool mix of javascript and php to have dyanmic form elements appear depending on user interaction.

The users can search the database records using a wildcard search field. They can also view and edit all records in the database through the interface. You can check it out here:

Working with some of the Google API has been some of the funner work I've done lately. These tasks usually involve using php to parse XML or rss feed from Google databases.

For the heck of it I built a skeleton application using Google Maps. On the back-end, It allows a user to insert an address into a database. On the front end, a user can do a radial search of address in the database to display all records within the specified radius.

I also recently did some work streaming images from a Picasa photogallery. The image stream is formatted in XML and parsed in php. When tied in with a Lightbox library, the results can be pretty neat.

I wouldn't say I've mastered httprequest functions for new apps designed from scratch, but it's definitely an avenue I'm heading down. But I had a lot of fun working with an integration of CKeditor. The results are so cool, providing the ability to edit documents directly on the server first with javascript http requests passing data to php scripts with file editing functions. Content management made quick and easy - love it.

I've been taking every chance I could get to wrestle with javascript. Recently a client wanted an excel style form to perform calculation and provide a cost estimate, so I built it from scratch. Not big time, but still cool.