Archive for August 15th, 2006

Pro::PHP Podcast: Interview with Terry Chay

The Pro::PHP podcast has posted their interview with Terry Chay, a developer at Plaxo, talking about anything and everything PHP.

Ok, hold on to your seats. Get ready for the most candid talk about PHP from a true professional who pulls no punches in his assessment of the language, the community and the web in general. Plaxo web developer, critic and funnyman Terry Chay will be the next guest on the podcast! Tune in to get Terry’s point of view on where PHP gets it right… and may not get it right.

You can download the show directly from their site.

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Ilia Alshanetsky’s Blog: FUDforum 2.7.6RC1 Released

Ilia Alshanetsky has posted today about the posting of the latest release candidate for his FUDForum software, version 2.7.6RC1.

A new version of FUDforum is on the release path. This release is largely a feature addition release with a fair quantity of new functionality being added. That said there were a few bug fixes sprinkled in between as well.

The upgrade and installer can be downloaded from here:

Installer Download

Upgrade Script

The main updates to this new release include the admin ability ti edit topic ratings and to display flags beside users based on geo-location information.

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Using Inheritance, Polymorphism and Serialization with PHP Classes

If you are working with classes in PHP you will sooner or later encounter inheritance polymorphism and serialization. The ability to use these three will help speed up your code writing. This article covers how to use them and more….

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Jacob Santos’ Blog: Floss Weekly Rasmus Review

After listening to the FLOSS interview with Rasmus Lerdorf, Jacob Santos has some of his own comments and thoughts (and misconceptions) the interview brought out.

He covers it in a few different points:

  • I Thought Rasmus Was a Jerk
  • PHP History: Damn You PHP Manual
  • Personal Home Pages or PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
    Namespaces in PHP 6

  • Rasmus Still Works on PHP?
  • Open Source Burnout

For each, he explains how the interview helped to set his thoughts straight, especially in his opinions of Rasmus himself.

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DevShed: Using Inheritance, Polymorphism and Serialization with PHP Classes

Some concepts of object-oriented design are harder to figure out that others for a budding programmer. Thankfully, there’s articles like this one from DevShed to help fill in some of the gaps. Specifically, they focus on inheritance, polymorphism, and serialization in your PHP classes.

If you are working with classes in PHP, you will sooner or later encounter inheritance, polymorphism, and serialization. The ability to use these three will help speed up your code writing. This article covers how to use them, and more.

First off, they look at inheritance and working with child classes before moving on to polymorphism (similar functionality, different objects), calling functions statically, and serializing objects to make passing them around much easier.

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