Archive for July 19th, 2006
PHP Developer - July 19th, 2006
The International PHP Magazine site has two new polls posted today, one looking at the most requested features in a content maangement system and the other asking about the biggest disadvantage to using PHP5.
In the first poll (CMS features), they ask readers to tell them which features they’d rather have most in their software of choice. Options range from “small footprint” to “easy to skin”. Submit your choice here
In the second poll they already have the results posted, showing what readers think the biggest disadvantage of choosing PHP5 for their platform is. Top on the list is the overwhelming number of frameworks that are available for it. Coming in last is a tie - problems with dynamic typing in debugging and, of course, “all of the above”.
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PHP Developer - July 19th, 2006
Tobias Schlitt mentions today in his latest post about his first patch to PHP, an update to the pathinfo function’s code being commited.
Hehe, some might say, that those 10 lines of C code are not even worth calling it a patch. Especially, since it was mostly copy and paste work and since Christian Schneider also adviced me for some improvement. Anyway, Marcus just commited my enhancement to pathinfo(), which adds a new field “filename” to the returned array of path elements.
His patch adds a much needed output parameter to the pathinfo function’s results - filename. He talks briefly about the process of making the change and how long it took him on the first shot (2 hours), but now his hard work has paid off. The update will be a part of PHP 5.2.
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Dev Shed - July 19th, 2006
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PHP Developer - July 19th, 2006
On the ThinkPHP blog today, Thorsten Rinne demonstrates how he (and others at GmbH/ThinkPHP) were able to integrate PHP with the Windows NT LAN Manager through a PHP script for authentication.
Sometimes you need to do strange things – and then PHP is the language of choice if you need a solution for web applications in really special environments like using a Windows based authentication method on a Linux server.
Here at Mayflower GmbH / ThinkPHP we wrote a proxy server for the authentication with NTLM (NT LAN Manager). This piece of software is used by one of our costumers for two years now without any bigger problems. It does silently its job for hundreds of users each day and they never know what’s happening in the background.
He starts with explaining how the NTLM system works and some of the example encoded messages it sends back and forth. Then, on to the good stuff - how they implemented it, some of the problems they encountered, and how, in the end, they took the entire thing and rewrote it to work in a PEAR package (which was recently accepted).
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PHP Developer - July 19th, 2006
On the NewsForge website, there’s this new look at the latest version of a popular PHP-based content management system - Serendipity 1.0.
Serendipity is a PHP-based content management system (CMS) for powering blogs and other sites, and has a feature set that should make any blogger happy. After several years in development, the Serendipity team hit the 1.0 mark on June 15. Let’s see how the 1.0 release shakes out.
The author (Joe Brockmeier) opts to jump in with both feet, making a complete switch over from WordPress to Serendipity. He goes through some of the common tasks like posting items and management behind the scenes. He also talks a bit about extending Serendipity, using the wealth of plugins offered both officially and by the community.
In the end, though, what it boils down to are his thoughts on the latest release - overall good, but nothing he saw that made it outstanding in its field.
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