Archive for September 26th, 2006
PHP Developer - September 26th, 2006
Paul Jones, developer of the Solar Application Framework, has posted the latest version of said software. Details for the release can be found in this blog posting over on his site.
Last night, I released version 0.24.0 of Solar, the simple object library and application repository. Solar is a PHP 5 framework for rapid application development.
You can read the change notes for a full run-down, but there are a few changes in particular that I want to highlight.
He points out changes in the form of two major packages:
- Solar_Request - a new class developed to handle the request information for a script (get/post/cookie/etc)
- Solar_Session - a new class to handle the sessions in an application, complete with read-once “flash” support
He also mentions a small change to the built-in Ajax support for the handling of the “edit” view.
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PHP Developer - September 26th, 2006
In this new entry on his blog, Jacob Santos is officialy ringing his own sort of death knell for phpBB in the form of recommending a move to FUDForum.
The development of phpBB 3 has been past due for a long time. In my humble and not so educated opinion, it has faded (or if it hasn’t already, it will fade) into obscurity. The phpBB 2.x development line has been overtaken by other forum projects, including better security in their package. SMF offers many of the features that will appear in phpBB 3 and also offers phpBB ease of installation and use.
He goes on to talk about the “upcoming release” of phpBB 3 but reminds us of the fact that it might be “another 2 or 3 years” before the update. If they ever get it out, though, (and it lives up to expectations) it’ll be great.
Jacob then looks at FUDForum (a project involving Ilia Alshanetsky) and praises it for its integration skills and simplicity. It even includes APIs to help integrate the install of FUDForum with the databases from other popular message boards.
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Dev Shed - September 26th, 2006
If you need to deal with legacy data by moving it to more recent databases this article might help. It will show you how to move data from an MS Excel file into an Oracle 1 G XE table….
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PHP Developer - September 26th, 2006
The International PHP Magazine has posted the results from their latest poll conducted over the week. This time they asked developers what they looked for in a framework.
The options this time were:
- An O-O MVC structure
- ORM / Active Record
- Good Controller Structure
- Ajax Interoperability
- Ability to Incorporate Testing
- Open Source/Free License
- Security
- Good Helpers
- Scaffolding
With the first option “an OO MVC structure” leading the pack with almost twenty percent. Next in line was (in order of votes): having an Open Source/fre license, bundled with good helpers, good security, and a good controller structure.
Be sure to check out their latest poll too. It asks about security architectures and what developers out there think they should contain.
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PHP Developer - September 26th, 2006
Joseph Crawford has posted some of his thoughts on the mock testing that the folks over at php|architect are offering to help people prepare for Zend’s PHP 5 Certification Exam.
So are you getting prepared to take the new PHP 5 Certification Exam offered by Zend? I have yet to see any books released for the preparation like i did with the PHP 4 exam, however there is something new and very cool. php|architect offers a Mock Tesing Environment which is powered by Vulcan Web Testing System.
Joseph talks about his experience, noting how he took the test and some of the topics that it covered. He definitely suggests taking it, too, as it provides a good glimpse into what you can expect come exam day.
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