As Greg Beaver mentions, the latest version of the PHP documentation tool, PHPDocumentor has been released - version 1.3.1.
This release addresses a problem with the sourceforge release, as well as a few other minor bugs.
The phpDocumentor tool is a standalone auto-documentor similar to JavaDoc written in PHP. It differs from PHPDoc in that it is MUCH faster, parses a much wider range of php files, and comes with many customizations including 11 HTML templates, windows help file CHM output, PDF output, and XML DocBook peardoc2 output for use with documenting PEAR. In addition, it can do PHPXref source code highlighting and linking.
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According to this new post on Chrisopher Jones’ blog, Oracle has listened to it’s PHP users and is implementing something in the 11g version of their database they’ve been asking for for a while - connection pooling.
We’re interested in how users might configure and use the connection pool in PHP and other tools. This will directly influence the configurability vs complexity of PHP’s OCI8 implementation.
They’re also looking to add an attribute into the php.ini file to see whether or not the server needs to disconnect at the end of an oci_close or not. Stay tuned for more information as it comes up about this cool new functionality.
Chris Shiflett, in working on a new, cleaner and leaner version of his site, shiflett.org, has come across a few “PHP tidbits” that he shares in his latest entry.
Just for fun, I’d like to share a couple of quick PHP tidbits with you that I wrote instead of starting on the real project at hand.
This post is the first of them, demonstrating two things . The first of which how you can make a useful tool with the SimpleXML functionality of PHP 5 and a REST API (like his example from Feedburner). His example grabs the statistics from the Feedburner API and pulls out the circulation number with two lines of code.
The second bit of functionality he shares is a quick function for shortening URLs to make them a bit easier to manage. It insets the ellipsis into the middle of the long URL to make it easier to squeeze into that layout.
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