Archive for August 18th, 2006
PHP Developer - August 18th, 2006
Greg Beaver has posted an official release announcement for the latest version of phpDocumentor - 1.3.0 stable.
The PhpDocumentor team would like to announce the release of PhpDocumentor version 1.3.0. This is the first stable release since 2003, and marks a dramatic step up from previous releases.
PhpDocumentor is the standard automatic documentation solution for PHP written in PHP. Originally inspired by JavaDoc, PhpDocumentor has over 6 years of battle-testing and is bundled in popular IDEs such as Zend Studio, PHPEdit, PhpEd, and others.
Updates included in this release include full PHP5 support, highlighting of the tutorial XML, and “beautifying of output from the XML:DocBook/peardoc2:default converter” as well as more than one hundred other bugs found and corrected.
To get this latest release, you can either head to the SourceForge udpate page or upgrade it through PEAR with the “pear upgrade PhpDocumentor” command.
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PHP Developer - August 18th, 2006
On NewsForge, an article with a look at phpMyAdmin has been posted, a “getting started” guide for those not familiar with the software.
So many open source projects depend on MySQL that it’s almost impossible for administrators and other open source enthusiasts to avoid working with at least one MySQL database. MySQL’s command line interface is easy enough to use, but if you don’t feel like reaching for a five-pound MySQL reference book or Googling for proper SQL syntax, phpMyAdmin is a great alternative to learning MySQL commands by heart.
They take a brief look at how it’s set up, though it’s not an installation tutorial, more about configuration. They guide you through some of the interface before getting to the real functionality - inserts, selects, dumping/restoring data, working with users, and checking/repairing tables when things go awry.
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PHP Developer - August 18th, 2006
On “Dreaming of Dawn”, Elizabeth Smith has posted some of her own impressions of the Komodo editor following on the heels of this blog post from Clay Loveless.
When perusing php-planet today (or is it planet-php and why can’t I ever remember?) I ran across an interesting article about changing from zend studio to komodo.
The amusing thing for me is I’ve been using komodo since 3.0 came out - in July of 2004. I’d gone through the whole list of php editors looking for two things - working debugging and code intelligence (e.g. tell me whether it’s needle haystack or haystack needle - so damn annoying) At the time, the ONLY one with a working debugger for php 5 was komodo - ding ding ding we have a winner.
She goes on to talk about some of the other features she finds particularly helpful, including a toolbar to help with adding phpDocumentor-styled comments to her code and the SVN and CVS integration.
She does note one bad thing she’s found about it - since it’s Mozilla based, some of that browsers bugs just might poke through when developing. Despite that, though, she’s been enjoying and will continue to enjoy what she thinks is one of the best editors out there (with a debugger, of course).
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PHP Developer - August 18th, 2006
Mike Potter has posted an update to his blog about the unofficial Adobe PHP SDK he mentioned earlier with details about new information and corrections that have been added to the guide.
I’ve updated the (unofficial) Adobe PHP SDK to fix some problems after the initial release. Turns out a few files were missing from the .zip file, and some files were misnamed. I’ve fixed these problems and also added in a new, more simple sample to show how Flex can retrieve XML data from a PHP backend, without requiring the use of a MySQL database. Finally, I’ve also removed the .svn files from the .zip file, reducing its size to only 1.5 MB.
You can download this latest version of the guide directly from his blog as well as get involved via the Google Group or requesting access to the SVN repository on Google as well.
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PHP Developer - August 18th, 2006
Following up on yesterday’s double release of PHP 4.4.4 and PHP 5.1.5, Ilia Alshanetsky has posted a few more details about the releases and about the release of PHP 5.2.0RC2.
I think we’ve set a new PHP release record today, 3 releases in one day, PHP 5.1.5, 4.4.4 and 5.2.0RC2. The first two are aimed at addressing a series of security faults that were discovered in stable branches.
The good thing is that the issues found are mostly local exploits, so upgrading should definitely be a priority to shared hosting providers or multi-user PHP systems. That said, I would still recommend that all users of PHP consider upgrading their installs to the relevant releases. For information about the exploits themselves go to php.net
He links to the downloads of these two new versions and includes more about the latest release candidate for HPP 5.2.0 - RC2. They’re shooting for a final release of 5.2.0 sometime in September and asks that anyone and everyone out there help to test the code on their systems to ensure a faster, cleaner result when the final code comes around.
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