Archive for November 16th, 2006

Jakob Westhoff’s Blog: Class dependency graph generation

Tobias Schlitt has posted about a script that Jakob has created to make class graphs from the existing PHP source in a directory.

The resulting SVG is generated through GraphViz. He just ran the script on the eZ components.

It’s a bash script that can run local to the machine and make the images as it speeds through your PHP code. Jakob mentions that the script it free for all, and offers a direct download from his page. You can see a more full-size example in the current graphs of the eZ components trunk.

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Derick Rethans’ Blog: Calculating start and end dates of a week

Derick Rethans has posted a quick tip to his blog today:

A friend asked “How do I calculate start (monday) and end (sunday) dates from a given week number for a specified year?” Instead of having to come up with your own algorithm you can simply do the following in PHP 5.1 and higher.

The (technically) three-line code uses ISO format for the date to tell you which day is the starting day of that week and which is the end. He only explains this format just a bit, so if you want more information, check out the strtotime function page.

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Email Management Details

In this second part of a two-part article you ll learn how to manage email headers when creating a PHP email program attach a file to a message and more. This article is excerpted from chapter eight of the em Zend PHP Certification Study Guide em written by Zend Technlogies Sams ISBN 672327 9 ….

InSpec Implement and manage your source code and design review process. Be efficient with your reviews. Reduce team frustration. Collect and keep inspection data for analysis and ROI determination.

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Zend Developer Zone: Andi Gutmans on RedMonk Podcast

Cal Evans has posted a quick note over on the Zend Developer Zone about a podcast that Zend co-founder Andi Gutmans participated in for RedMonk Radio.

Andi is featured in episode #33 of RedMonk radio. In it James and Conte quiz Andi about PHP on the IBM System i, scalability, The Microsoft partnership, and a host of other topics.

They honed in on the System i stuff and mention how Java, one thought to be the perfect fit for the platform, has fallen short.

You can grab the podcast directly from here or, if you want to find out more about the RedMonk Podcast, check out their site.

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Devshed: Email Management Details

DevShed continues their look at the creation of a PHP email program (as excerpted from the “Zend PHP Certification Study Guide”) with this new tutorial focusing on the management of the emails themselves.

In this second part of a two-part article, you’ll learn how to manage email headers when creating a PHP email program, attach a file to a message, and more.

In this part they cover some of the details about the structure of emails, how to add an attachment to an email (for both a normal file and images for an HTML email), as well as a mention of how email is delivered.

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