Archive for November, 2006
PHP Developer - November 30th, 2006
On the NorthClick blog today, there’s a quick little set of hints talking about the creation of a simple (”but solid”) newsletter system for your website.
He breaks it down into the individual steps you’ll need to follow:
- Use a Framwork
- Queue in the database
- Use SMTP
- Check Headers
- Test it
In the step involving the database, he gives the create script you’ll need to get the table set up and working. It’s not so much a step-by-step tutorial with all of the needed code as it is a general look at what steps to follow when rolling your own newsletter setup.
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PHP Developer - November 30th, 2006
The Zend Developer Zone as an update posted for the entire Zend Framework community with some details about the upcoming months and milestones.
Zend Framework has been picking up its pace of development recently. Many great improvements are coming soon in areas such as MVC, Acl, Authentication, Session handling, Search engine, and Gdata. There is also some great work in progress for Locale, Date, and others.
Other updates mentioned include a mid-December release date for a new Preview Release, a wiki page to show future release dates, a mention that the ZF is free software, and that the document translation section of the team is still (as always) in need of help. If you feel like getting in on the action, check out this page on the ZF wiki for more details.
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PHP Developer - November 30th, 2006
Joshua Eichorn has posted an update on his blog today about a change to the PHP-powered WebThumb API service - the addition of “EasyThumb”.
Like the rest of webthumb its still in beta but it makes adding thumbnails too a site much easier. Easythumb gives you a simple interface to WebThumb letting people with minimal PHP skills integrate WebThumb into there site.
He includes a basic example script to get you started with the new feature as well as a bare-bones code example for the same kind of thing.
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Dev Shed - November 30th, 2006
In this second part of a two part series you ll learn how to use debuggers and optimize performance. It is excerpted from chapter 12 of the book em Zend PHP Certification em written by George Schlossnagle et al Sams ISBN 672327 9 ….
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PHP Developer - November 30th, 2006
In this post on the Zend Developer Zone, Cal Evans takes a look at an article published in a recent php|architect issue from Chris Hartjes about how several recent advancements in the PHP community have helped developers think more in “the Rails way” of development.
Chris does a good job of laying out his points. As with any article of this nature, you are going to agree with some of them and you’ll disagree with some of them. However, to get to that point you’ll have to consider all of them. That’s really the point of the article; making developer sit back and think for a minute. It’s well worth the read.
Cal also mentions some of the topics presented in the article including more conceptual ideas like “Convention Over Configuration” and “Rapid Should Mean Rapid”.
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