PHP Developer - September 5th, 2006
On the SitePoint PHP Blog, there’s a new post from Harry Fuecks pointing out an extension for PHP that allows it to use the Cairo graphics library.
Cairo is the “next generation” vector graphics library for Linux and very cool to have it available in PHP. Also cool about the extension was created using PEAR::CodeGen_PECL, which Hartmut describes here: look Mum - no C! (well almost).
Harry also asks if, with the rise of new technologies like this, if it’s time to make the move to deprecate GD from normal PHP use - at the same time, removing another hurdle in PHP’s path towards being thread safe.
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PHP Developer - September 5th, 2006
Amir Saied has posted an update to his PEAR Services_Ebay project sa have been comitted to his CVS repository.
As I posted earlier, I’m working on the PEAR package Services_Ebay. To update it to new eBay XML schema, I’ve done some of the Calls/Models/Examples and touched the request skeleton to be compatible with eBay’s new schema and finally committed them to the PEAR CVS. But unfortunately I can’t continue with this job as before.
He notes that the version is not production ready, and since he won’t be able to work on it as before, he’s also including a progress file to help keep track of where the project stands.
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PHP Developer - September 5th, 2006
On the PHP-Tools Blog, there’s a new posting about a new library for PHP based off of the original XJConf and ported over to make XJConf For PHP.
XJConf allows you to map complex XML documents to data structures by defining the mapping rules in a simple XML-based language. You may define the type for each tag (objects, arrays, primitives) as well as how its attributes, child elements and enclosed character data should be treated. When creating objects, you may also define the setter methods to nest the objects.
There are examples and documentation if you’d like to give it a try and, when you’re ready, you can grab it from their PEAR channel or http://svn.xjconf.net/XJConfForPHP/
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Dev Shed - September 5th, 2006
If you re one of those avid PHP developers who wants to learn how to apply the decorator design pattern within your Web applications then this group of articles might be quite appealing to you. Welcome to the second part of the series Using the Decorator pattern with PHP. Comprised of two parts this series walks you through the core concepts of using this pattern in PHP and shows you its practical edge with numerous hands-on examples….
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