Archive for November 21st, 2006
PHP Developer - November 21st, 2006
In a quick post to his blog, Rob Richards shares two scripts he’s created for working with WS-Addressing in PHP.
It’s not very difficult to implement, but I threw together a library for anyone else that might need to leverage it.
The scripts have only been tested for a SOAP client side/.NET service combination. He also explains why the support he gives (like these scripts) is only for the client and not the server side of things.
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PHP Developer - November 21st, 2006
As posted over on the Zend Developer Zone, Marc Gear has posted a new review over on his blog of the guide that php|architect magazine has created to help prepare developers for Zend’s PHP 5 Certification.
I brought the book to make sure that my knowledge was sufficient to take the test […] however, having read most of the book last night, I think it would be a good addition to my bookshelf, especially to lend to other developers on my team.
He briefly covers the topics in the book (including basics, functions, stream, security, etc) and a general impression of how the book presented them overall. His opinion of the resource is definitely a good one, summed up well by the above comments.
His only complaint was a small one (and not even about the content of the book) - that the spine was printed upside down so it looks a bit odd on the shelf.
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PHP Developer - November 21st, 2006
Yet another new series is starting over at DevShed today with part one of a look at the creation of a blogging application in PHP 5.
Assuming that building a blogger with PHP is really an interesting topic for you, let’s learn together how this useful application can be developed in a few easy steps.
These easy steps include:
- defining the structure of the application
- creating the insertBlog method
- creating the updateBlog method
- creating the deleteBlog method
Each of the above functions provides just the basics of the functionality needed to make a more fully-developed blogging system, but there’s more to come in future parts of the series. You can download a zip file of the current code here.
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PHP Developer - November 21st, 2006
On the SpinDrop blog, Dave Dash talks about a hole that he felt in his bug fixing for a project, something that he felt like the application had simply left out - a framework.
My client noted that these scripts were made from another contract programmer, and then a light-bulb went on… frameworks (whether it be symfony, ROR, Django, CakePHP, etc) help iron out and standardize these tasks.
He lists some of the basics of what a framework can help with, including storing data (both in the database and in things like $_SESSION) and a big one - form validation. Sure, you can do these things outside of any of the named frameworks out there, but they can make them simpler for any application written within them.
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Dev Shed - November 21st, 2006
In the first part of this three-part series we ll examine the basic outlines of creating a blog application with PHP 5. If you re currently working with PHP 4 this program can be adapted to that version of the language….
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