Archive for July, 2006
PHP Developer - July 31st, 2006
Wrapping up his, well, wrap-ups of this year’s OSCON in Oregon, Cal Evans has this final installment - a look at the final day and the aftermath.
The goddess’ of the O’Reilly Conference Team have yelled “cut” the set is struck and everybody has gone home. Speakers are busily reviewing the evaluation forms and tuning their presentations for the next round and the attendees are sorting through the T-Shirts. (Keepers or dust-rags) Let’s glance over our shoulder at what was OSCON06.
He points out a link to the Flickr feed of his pictures from the conference - including pictures of his (now infamous) “PHP trading cards” (which he includes links to the Word documents of).
Cal talks about getting to Rasmus and George Schlossnagle’s talks about enjoying the “PHP Lightning Talks” quite a bit. There’s mention of the conference all, laid out in all of its corporate splendor and his note about a relatively glitch-free conference.
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PHP Developer - July 31st, 2006
Andrei Zmievski, clarifying a misconception from his presentation at this year’s OSCON, has posted this information about how transliteration support will be in PHP6.
Ryan Kennedy commented on the presentation I gave at OSCON; specifically, about the transliteration support in PHP 6. I wanted to follow up and explain exactly what it is and, unfortunately, what it is not.
Ryan was excited about the possibilities presented by transliteration, especially as it applies to representing foreign names in reader’s native script (think mail readers).
Andrei explains that the functionality is a bit more tricky than it seams. Due to some issues with the English language, things can get pronounced so many different ways that it can throw the end result off.
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PHP Developer - July 31st, 2006
Davey Shafik has posted a bit of a sneak peak at the code for the Zend_Service_Server he’s been working up for one of the frameworks - maybe the Zend’s.
OK, so I spent this weekend in a coding frenzy, the outcome of this, can be summed up with the [following] small snippet of code. This is just the typical public facing API, of course there is much more to this. I’m waiting to hear some feedback from specific people before I either contribute it to the Zend Framework or release it elsewhere.
The basic idea seems to be a more automated system to handle web services, including REST, SOAP, and XML-RPC handling.
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PHP Developer - July 31st, 2006
PHPBuilder.com has posted this new book review today, a look at a new offering from APress publishing - “Pro PHP, XML, and Web Services”.
Since its release in 2004, PHP 5 has evolved to become stable enough for serious consideration in use in a production environment. Along the way, PHP 5 has seen more than a handful of tweaks and changes, especially in its overhauled support for XML and XML web services. Now that it is a stable, it is fitting that there be a reference on all things PHP and XML.
Enter Pro PHP XML and Web Services, which aims to be “your single source of reference when using XML in PHP”.
The reviwer remarks first about the size of the book (of Biblical proporations) and how it seeks to “leave no stone unturned” when it comes to using XML and web services with PHP. The first chapters are a review of XML, including a chapter on XPath, XPointer, and XInclude. From there, the book gets more into the PHP5 functionality and the features it offers. The main focus, however, is on the web services, with a few chapters given just to them.
Overall, the review is positive, save for some concerns of the content dealing with XML security and XSLT.
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Dev Shed - July 31st, 2006
Are you looking for an easygoing article that teaches you how to implement the Observer design pattern inside your PHP 5 applications Your search is finished Welcome to the last part of the series The Observer Pattern in PHP. Made up of three articles this series will show you how to create and work with observer objects without making you scratch your head while looking at complex code samples….
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