Archive for December 7th, 2006
PHP Developer - December 7th, 2006
Etienne Kneuss has an update on the PHPT Generator project posted to his blog, mentioning specifically how it was used to discover documentation problems in the generated phpt files.
The main use of those phpt files was to have an easy way to check examples used in the documentation. Along with a php script analyzing the results and Hannes’ great testing environment, I was able to generate a summary of the examples failing.
The results show that over 50% of the documents passed the test, with the rest split between failing because of missing extensions (9%) and because of an error in the example (41%).
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PHP Developer - December 7th, 2006
If you’re running CentOS 4 and want to get PHP up and running on your installation, check out this quick and dirty guide posted over on the HowToBoard.com.
The process really only involves six or seven steps to get things up and running, but you’ll need to know how to get in and edit things before you can build the packages up right. Oh, and of course, a little credit where credit’s due:
Enjoy! Do not forget to install new php-pear as well. Special thanks to Peter Zaitsev.
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PHP Developer - December 7th, 2006
On his blog, Premature Optimization, Shahar Evron has posted some information about work he’s done on the Zend_Http_Client package of the Zend Framework - including the push to make it live.
Earlier this week, I finally (after long and hard work) pushed the Zend_Http_Client out of the incubator and into the core of Zend Framework, and it will be released with the 0.6 preview release.
Some of the things introduced in this package include the introduction of “connection adapters”, a method of having an adapter object made responsible for handling the networking connection. The default for this is the socket adapter, but work is already being done to create cURL and future ideas for a caching adapter or a pfsockopen-based option for more preferment connection needs.
Shahar also includes some stats to show off what the new package can do and how many requests per second it can handle.
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PHP Developer - December 7th, 2006
The Zend Developer Zone has posted a press review with some good news for PHP developers all over - Zend and Acutate are collaborating to provide reporting (BIRT) to PHP.
he collaboration between Zend and Actuate has resulted in new capabilities in the 3.0 version of the Zend Platform, which is available today for download as a pre-release version at www.zend.com. Zend Platform 3.0 allows PHP developers to quickly integrate reporting capabilities, including charting, to web applications by calling Actuate BIRT reports via the Zend Java Bridge.
New functionality included in this collaboration includes flexibility when generating the reports (output formats/export options), an easy-to-use visual environment, and an integrated charting system including various graphing formats (like pie, chart, area, scatter, and stock).
Check out the full press release for the full story on this collaboration.
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Dev Shed - December 7th, 2006
If you use an open source operating system you probably have a few favorite hacks that you like to apply to make things run more smoothly. This article the first of three parts focuses on some good hacks for customizing the user environment. It is excerpted from chapter one of the book em BSD Hacks em written by Dru Lavigne Copyright 2 5 O Reilly Media Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O Reilly Media ISBN 596 6799 ….
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