Archive for November 20th, 2006
PHP Developer - November 20th, 2006
Some eZ components news as passed on by Tobias Schlitt today - they’ve released the second beta for this 2006 edition of the component system:
In this second beta of the eZ components 2006.2 the major highlights are
the addition of a flash driver for the Graph component, the addition of
many new features to the IMAP transport in the Mail component, and
support for PostgreSQL and SQLite for the DatabaseSchema component.
You can get the latest information about the release here (as well as updated docs) and a full changelog for the release can be found here and the one for beta1 (with more of the ‘cool features’ listed) here.
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PHP Developer - November 20th, 2006
From the WebCheatSheet.com site, there’s a new tutorial helping you create some dynamic images for your pages, specifically creating a CAPTCHA image, a dynamic bar graph, and using these images on other pages.
They assume you know a little something about the graphics functionality in PHP before you’ve started because they dive right into the code for the CAPTCHA image. They explain what the code’s doing, but if you’re not familiar with the PHP GD functions, you might be a little lost. Their string for the image is a randomly generated md5 hash.
The bar graph example is similar and they include a bit more for it - pulling information from a database (MySQL) backend (the results from a poll). They provide all of the code for this example and finish the tutorial off with a brief look at the options for using these types of dynamic images on the other pages in your site.
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PHP Developer - November 20th, 2006
Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone has posted a new book review for one of Sams Publishing’s latest PHP-related offerings, “PHP 5 In Practice” by Elliott “Eli” White III (Senior Programmer over at digg.com.
First let me say, if you are new to PHP or programming in general, skip this book. This is not a how to or even a cookbook for simple concepts. To get the most from this book you need to have a firm grounding in programming.
He sets the tone for the rest of the interview right there, noting that most of the book is made up of little examples, helpful bits to fill a need rather than teaching you the basics (or more advanced features) of PHP as a language. Cal spotlights this kind of content by talking about the “binary tree implementation” section. Check out the rest of the review for the full story.
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Dev Shed - November 20th, 2006
You may have experienced some headaches in the past when creating GUIs to gather user input. Python makes this process easy with input widgets. Keep reading to learn more….
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PHP Developer - November 20th, 2006
In this new post on the Northclick blog, Soenke talks about the stream wrappers included in PHP and some of the magic that can happen when they’re applied correctly. In this case, it’s an application of the ssh2 library (by Sara Golemon).
The new system must be very stable with a strict error checking and has to support several ways of file transports (FTP, SCP/SFTP). SCP is faster then FTP and secure by nature. It’s going to be the standard way for deployment.
After finding and loading the extension, things flowed along swimmingly - the code shows a simple transfer method of transfer over a secure ftp connection, complete with a few performance stats at the end.
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