Archive for July 25th, 2006
PHP Developer - July 25th, 2006
Reporting with his own coverage in the trenches of Oregon, Cal Evans has posted Day One of his coverage of this year’s OSCON, with a PHP slant (of course) on Zend’s Developer Zone.
He mentions this year’s OSCAMP and its facilitator, Brandon Sanders. Since today and tomorrow are tutorial days, the PHP content was light with only the one tutorial being held by Chris Shiflett covering “Power PHP Testing”.
Stay tuned for more from this year’s conference and more of Cal’s great coverage and commentary.
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PHP Developer - July 25th, 2006
The International PHP Magazine has finished yet another poll today, this time they asked their site visitors the question “What Features do You Prioritize in a CMS?”.
The options included things like “Small footprint, less than 30K” and “Multiple methods for providing news feed” but the number one on the list (as chosen by the readers) was “Simple and powerful administration panel” with “Easy to integrate into an existing web site” pulling in a close second.
It is evident that the majority looks for a simple and powerful administration panel in a CMS as it garnered 36.9% of votes. 35.7% look for a CMS that is easy to integrate into an existing web site. 13.1% want a CMS that is easy to skin. ‘Simple and easy to install’ polled 8.3% of the votes. 3.6% desire a small footprint less than 30k. The options, ‘No requirement for a database’ and ‘Multiple methods for providing news feed’ bagged a dismal 1.2%.
Be sure to check out this week’s poll (PHP misconceptions) and cast your vote today!
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PHP Developer - July 25th, 2006
According to this post on Freelancejob.com.au, the results of a statistical analysis of the job postings from getafreelancer.com show a huge surge of PHP jobs being posted.
According to statistical analysis of the 27750 freelance projects on getafreelancer.com site most wanted types of job are PHP (40% of all projects), Web Design (31%), Graphic Design (16%) and Flash (14%).
They provide both the table of the stats generated and a graph clearly showing that PHP jobs are head and shoulders above the rest.
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PHP Developer - July 25th, 2006
Encryption can be a difficult issue to comprehend, inside of PHP or not. Thankfully, there are resources out there that can help simplify things and bring them down to where they’re really useful. This new tutorial from the IBM developerWorks site today is just such a resource.
In this increasingly virtual online world, you have to be careful to protect your data. Learn the basics of encoding and encrypting important bits of information, such as passwords, credit card numbers, and even entire messages. Get an overview of what it means to encrypt and decrypt information, as well as some practical examples involving passwords and other data, using PHP’s built-in functionality.
They start off where any good encryption article should - with a primer in cyrptography. You can’t understand the advanced without a good grasp on the basic. Using this knowledge, they start to work up their form, a simple username and password validation system.
They provide all of the code you’ll need to build the form, and even intorduce you to the crypt() function. A bad use of this functionality is also illustrated. Of course, encryption is only half the fun, so they also include an example of decrypting the same information.
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Dev Shed - July 25th, 2006
Welcome to the last installment of the series Overloading classes in PHP. Comprised of three tutorials this series shows you how to overload your classes whether you re using PHP 4 or PHP 5 and explains in detail the implementation of the __set __get and __call methods in order to overload property accesses and method calls respectively….
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