Archive for September 13th, 2006
PHP Developer - September 13th, 2006
Pádraic Brady is “back in business” and back posting again on his blog with this new item talking about the reactivation of his Patterns for PHP website.
It’s appropriate to take stock of the projects I dropped for the Summer. Among them is the Patterns For PHP website. The project is now once again active. To facilitate some easy feedback options and let the Administrators discuss issues, planning and some maintenance tasks we’ll be performing I have added a phpBB forum to the mix.
The forums he mentions are up and active for all developers out there looking for a place to congregate and talk about the use of patterns in PHP.
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PHP Developer - September 13th, 2006
Cal Evans is attending this year’s php/db|works conference up in Toronto and has reported back with his summary of the first day of the conference - “Tutorial Day”.
Day One at php|works was dedicated to tutorials. Paul Reinheimer did a 6 hour crash course for those who wanted to take the Zend Certification Test here at the conference. I talked with a three attendees at the Crash Course to get their opinion on how it was going. Cairan Walsh, who is not currently Zend Certified found the course interested although he thought maybe it was a bit too basic.
Cal notes that just about everyone that attended the “Crash Course” was pleased with the contents/teacher/etc. He also mentions his visits to the “Advanced XML and Web Services” and “Extending PHP” tutorials.
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PHP Developer - September 13th, 2006
PHPBuilder.com has a quick little article (an exceprt from “PHP 5 in Practice“) that shows how, using a simple dynamic navigation system, highlight where the user currently is.
Although a site may not always warrant a full multilayer navigation menu, most websites usually have at least a few different sections. Often many pages have links back to the top pages of each section, and therefore it is useful to highlight which section the user is currently in. Listing 9.2.1 looks at the URL of the current web page and, based on that, determines what section of the website it is in and changes the section menu.
They provide the script and a brief explaination, but not much else. Seems like the snippet might make more sense with a little more context, but it’s still useful.
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PHP Developer - September 13th, 2006
The International PHP Magazine has published the results of this past week’s poll that asked “Which is truest?” (or “which of the options given about PHP is the most correct).
The International PHP Magazine conducted a poll over the week, asking for your opinion regarding the truest statement. The poll results with the respective percentages are as shown in the screen cast.
Of the options given, only one stood out above the rest - “PHP is Easy to Learn” - definitely a true statement. As far as the rest, they were close, but “PHP code gets embedded in HTML pages” came in second.
Be sure to check out the new poll question for the week - “You Did Not Know That…” (selecting which of the little known facts about PHP you didn’t know).
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PHP Developer - September 13th, 2006
Mike Potter is happy to announce that Adobe is officially a “Gold Sponsor” of the upcoming Zend/PHP Conference & Expo as well as a mention of his involvement at the conference.
I’m happy to announce that Adobe will be sponsoring the Zend / PHP Conference and Expo in San Jose in late October. I have a speaking session there on Rich Internet Applications, and we’ll have a booth where we’ll be showing off integrating PHP, using open source tools such as AMFPHP or WebORB from the Midnight Coders.
He also reminds potential conference-goers that the Early Bird discount is still in effect (until September 15th - just two more days!) to get the dicsounted price. Head over and register today!
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