Archive for November 6th, 2006
PHP Developer - November 6th, 2006
In some of his latest comments, Jeff Moore talks about some of the statistics that have been floating about lately about PHP 5 adoption and PHP as a “deployment platform”.
PHP has been incredibly successful as a deployment platform for web applications. However, PHP as a platform is far from homogenous. With many different versions installed and the vast configurability of php.ini, there can be a great deal of variation from PHP installation to PHP installation. PHP developers often ask what should I target?
In his opinion, the statistics about usage need to be taken with a grain of salt and, with a bit of digging, some of the differences between them (expose_php anyone?) can be found. He rounds out the post with a recommendation to all developers out there - since the barrier for moving to PHP 5 is so low these days, what’s stopping you?
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PHP Developer - November 6th, 2006
Jim Plush has two big announcements on his blog today - both dealing with his MyBic Ajax and PHP framework. One deals with a new version and the other with a benchmark the library has reached.
The first announcement is about the package’s latest release - version 0.7.0. This is the last release before heading straight up to a 1.0 stable release for the utility. This current version contains no bugs/memory leaks that he’s found. This release was made to fix the last of them.
Right on the heels of this announcement, there’s another concerning the MyBic library’s placement on the SourceForge ranking list. It’s been officially bumped up to number 145 out of the 100,000+ projects the site manages.
You can get the latest on this great package and all of the information and downloads of the new releases from the project’s official site.
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PHP Developer - November 6th, 2006
Rob Allen has updated his Zend Framework Tutorial for the latest incarnation of the popular application framework, version 0.2.0.
This tutorial is intended to give a very basic introduction to using the Zend Framework to write a very basic database driven application.
Note that this tutorial only works with version 0.2 of the Zend Framework and is unlikely to work with later versions.
He Lists out some changes that were made from the previous document in the blog posting. You can grab the guide in either an English PDF or in a translated German version.
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Dev Shed - November 6th, 2006
If you re one of those PHP developers that wants to expand your background in pattern-based programming then this article may suit your needs. Welcome to the second part of the series Understanding the Chain of Responsibility Between PHP Objects. Comprised of three installments this series goes through the basics of building a chain of responsibility across several PHP objects and teaches you how to apply this pattern by using copious code samples….
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PHP Developer - November 6th, 2006
With the next link in their look at the “chain of responsibility” pattern, DevShed has posted this new part in the series - adding an error logger to the mix.
At the end of this article you should be equipped with more robust knowledge of how to create a responsibility chain between PHP objects that perform truly useful tasks, like logging errors to specific components of a Web application.
They work from the code built up in the previous installations and show how to add the foundations of the error logger to the class before moving on to the more advanced bits. They then show how to use it to log some basic errors and, using only a bit more skill, logging some email-related errors.
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