Archive for October 20th, 2006
PHP Developer - October 20th, 2006
Chris Shiflett has announced (via the phpsec.org mailing list) a new project to help make PHp installations safer in a simple, easy-to-use package - PHPSecInfo.
Ed Finkler of the PHP Security Consortium has launched a new project to
help developers and system administrators audit PHP environments.
PHPSecInfo provides a simple-to-use security audit system for the PHP
environment, with a look and feel similar to that of the phpinfo()
function.
PHPSecInfo currently has a suite of 16 tests. Interested PHP developers
are encouraged to propose and write new tests for consideration as well
as help refine the existing test suite. You can find contact information
for Ed Finkler and any member of the PHP Security Consortium online at http://phpsec.org/contact/.
The development of the project is being partially sponsored by CERIAS at Purdue University. There’s an example of the output from the script and a download dated for the beginning of August. Contributions are welcome and accepted, especially in certain areas like documentation, test writing, suggestions, and feedback.
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PHP Developer - October 20th, 2006
Over on the Zend Developer Zone, Cal Evans shares part of a mini-interview (one question, really) where Cal asked Tim about Solaris as a hosting and development platform for PHP.
Tim will be at ZendCon this year participating in a panel discussion titled “How Do The Stacks Stack Up?” I talked with Tim by phone because I was curious why PHP developers should consider Solaris as a development and deployment environment. Here’s what Tim had to say.
His answer was based around three main points - observability, virtualization “stuff”, and the ZFS filesystem all Solaris systems come installed with. And, of course, he explains the thought process behind each (briefly).
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PHP Developer - October 20th, 2006
As mentioned by the Zend Developer Zone, PHP is still holding strong in the TIOBE Programming Community index n terms of how popular the language is. PHP comes in, once again, at number four on the list, bested by (in descending order) Java, C, and C++.
Most of the top languages on the index are staying around the same spot, but two languages - Visual Basic and Python - are nipping at the top four’s heels. Things are getting pretty neck and neck for three languages - PHP, Basic, and C++. Their stats have been fluctuating just around each other, but not changing enough to make a difference in the listings.
You can check out the full listing on the TIOBE Software website (including a graph of each language in relation to the others).
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PHP Developer - October 20th, 2006
Despite the release candidates for PHP 5.2.0 marching on, Lukas Smith still has some misgivings about some of the functionality being introduced in the release - specifically about the fatal errors that are going to break a lot of (working) object oriented functionality.
Anyways I just posted the following email to internals in a list attempt to get some of the people with php-dev karma to lift their finger.
In the message, he notes the change he’s looking for and a suggestion to get it included before RC6 of the series gets released (which has been released as of this post already).
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PHP Developer - October 20th, 2006
Ilia Alshanetsky, the release manager for the PHP 5.2.x series has officially announced the release of the latest Release Candidate for the series - PHP 5.2.0RC6.
The 5.2.0 release is turning to be quite an adventure, we can’t seem to get the bloody thing out. Hopefully RC6 will be the last release candidate, but given that I’ve said that about the last 3RCs, who knows…
You can grab the release snapshots from his section of the Downloads on PHP.net (with Win32 binaries to follow soon). So, grab it, test it, find those bugs, and help the PHP team get this next big upgrade out the door!
UPDATE: the Windows binaries have been posted by Edin now.
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