PHP Developer - August 31st, 2006
On PHPied.com, there’s a handy little tool for users of TextPad out there - a plugin to make writing phpDoc comments in your code a bit easier.
Here’s a little something I did to make it a bit easier to write API docs in TextPad, it’s a clip library to save some typing when writing comments in the phpDoc format. I submitted it to the TextPad team, so at some point it will probably appear in the downloads section, but meanwhile you can get from here.
There’s a direct download of the plugin as well as some screenshots of it in action.
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PHP Developer - August 31st, 2006
Greg Beaver has posted a quick note about the latest release of his PHP_LexerGenerator package through the main PEAR website - version 0.2.2.
I just released version 0.2.2 of PHP_LexerGenerator. This release fixes two bugs, one where / characters were erroneously being replaced by characters in regular expressions, and another where lexers with no %statename processing instruction were outputting “const 1=1;” which is invalid PHP.
You can grab this latest release directly from the package’s homepage.
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PHP Developer - August 30th, 2006
Continuing in his series of interviews from this year’s OSCON, Cal Evans has posted this new interview he did with Andrei Zmievski.
This is another entry in the series of interviews I did at OSCON 2006. This time, I was privileged to sit down with Andrei Zmievski and talk about Unicode, Yahoo and other PHP topics. Andrei is a native of Uzbekistan and came to the US to study when he was 16 years old. He now works at Yahoo on their Infrastructure team and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Linguistics.
They talk about Unicode for PHP6 (Andrei’s big push), the status and some specifics of the project, his work wth Yahoo!, a look towards the future of PHP, and some of Andrei’s personal background - including how he came to the PHP community.
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PHP Developer - August 30th, 2006
Both Ben Ramsey and Elizabeth Naramore have commented on the new IRC channel they’ve formed for the upcoming PHP Appalachia conference on the Freenode network.
We now have an IRC channel for the PHP Appalachia conference - Freenode - #phpappalachia. Come join us!
You can access the Freenode network with any IRC client and can join in on the channel at any time. Come find out others who are coming and get the latest on the conference.
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Dev Shed - August 30th, 2006
In this article we are going to look at how to upload files and also how to navigate through directories. It is the second part of a tutorial that began last week with Reading Writing and Creating Files in PHP. …
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