Archive for July 11th, 2006
PHP Developer - July 11th, 2006
The Zend Developer Zone has a new book review today - a look at the Oracle Technology Network offering “The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual” .
Released last month by Oracle and trumpeted from Chris Jones’ blog, The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual is an excellent guide for anyone looking to work with these two technologies.
I’m not a fanboy for Oracle but this review will read like one. It’s hard to find anything to criticize in this book. It’s an easy read and it’s not burdened with unnecessary technical jargon. This is a book I will recommend to my friends who know Oracle and want to know more about PHP or visa-versa.
In his long version, Cal talks about the climate for PHP books these days, noting how much the author’s skill has to do with its success. Thankfully, this book is doing just fine. He talks about the contents of the different chapters, brief summaries of what to expect.
His only complaint? That he’d like it in a book (dead tree) editon too…
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PHP Developer - July 11th, 2006
The IBM developerWorks site has posted part two in their look at the popular offering from Zend - the Zend Framework - and how ot understand it. In part one they went over the basics - install/setup and a walkthrough of the components. In part two they move to the next level and start builing a simple application, Chomp, an online feed reader.
In Part 1 of this “Understanding the Zend Framework” series, we discuss the goals behind the Zend Framework, including easy-to-use components and an architecture based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. Now we start to actually put that to use.
They start off by helping you to install WAMP (a Windows “all in one” installert for Apache/MySQL/PHP), complete with screenshots. With the platform installed, they go over a few ground rules on what MVC really means and demonstrate a creation and development of each. The application allows a user to register with a username and password as well as manage their information. They also introduce the Zend_Registry component to help with database connections.
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PHP Developer - July 11th, 2006
The latest editon of the Zend Framework has been released today - Preview Release version 0.1.5.
The Zend Framework community has released their 0.1.5 Preview Release. Although this is primarily a maintenance release, it does move the new RewriteRouter to the core and takes it one step closer to becoming the default routing model for the MVC portion of the framework.
The release is available on the Zend Framework website. The change log for this and prior releases can be viewed from the issue tracker.
The Zend Developer Zone post has the complete release notes for this new edition with information on bug fixes, improvements, documentation updates, a new feature (an APC backend), and several fixes for unit test failures.
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PHP Developer - July 11th, 2006
In his latest post, Andrei Zmievski notes something that might have slipped through the cracks, but is still worth nothing. Sara Golemon, author of the recently released “Extending and Embedding PHP” book from Sam’s Publishing, is joining up with the group at Yahoo!
She notes in her blog entry:
After well over half a decade at the University of California at Berkeley, I’m moving on to greener pastures. Well, maybe not greener (Berkeley is full of evergreens and…other verdant plant substances), but pastures at the very least. Next monday, my life’s journy will bring me to that farmland come technopolis known the world over as Silicon Valley. I’ll be cubefarming private sector style for one of the few dotcom survivors, a little mom & pop outfit called Yahoo!.
Many congrats to Sara, author of runkit, classkit, ssh2, and other PECL packages as well as a regular contributor to PHP core - enjoy life at the new job and have fun working in the Search & Marketplace Group!
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PHP Developer - July 11th, 2006
The Zend Developer Zone has gone IBM crazy with three different posts concerning the blending of the PHP language with the i5/OS platform - specifically the use of DB2, a free book that’s been published, and a real code example to get you started.
First off, the book - “Developing PHP Applications for IBM Data Servers”. Cal talks about its contents, including a brief description and a listing of te chapters. Topics covered include the installation and configuration, wokring with DB2/Informix, and an introduction to Service Data Objects for PHP.
Next up is Cal’s announcement of the official melding of DB2 and PHP on the i5/OS platform. He points to a tutorial (”Use PHP scripts to access DB2 UDB for iSeries data with Zend Core for i5/OS”) for an example of these connections.
Finally, Cal wraps it all up with another example from the Zend site that “illustrates features and functions using the db2 extensions in the Zend Core for i5/OS PHP engine”.
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