Archive for December 11th, 2006
PHP Developer - December 11th, 2006
Torrent lovers everywhere can rejoice and pick up a new way to gather their favorite social sharing files - TorrentVolve. The TorrentVolve project is:
a cross-platform PHP-driven web-based BitTorrent client. It focuses on speed and reliability, while also providing a full feature set. It includes a user management system, a Torrent file manager, and a configurable Torrent downloader.
The project is still in beta but shows promise as a future staple in web-based torrent file gathering. They mention a few bug fixes and some new features (archive viewing, adding ETA & peer to the display, enabling/disabling automatic page refreshing).
You can get full details and the latest download of this package from their SourceForge page.
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PHP Developer - December 11th, 2006
In a new post on his blog today Ilia Alshanetsky asks the community the all-important question on everyone’s lips - “why are you not using PHP 5?”
It would seem that despite a 300% growth (from <4% to >12%) in PHP 5.X usage in 2006, it still only commands about 12% of the entire PHP user base. […] As a 5.X release master, I am very interested in hearing what’s holding back 5.X adoption and what can we, as the developers do in 2007 to help speed of 5.X adoption.
He notes that a lot of the concerns (speed issues, stability problems, etc) have already been addressed and are working like a champ in the latest PHP5 versions releases.
So, do you have a reason why you’re still using PHP 4? If you’re not using it, you know someone who is. Take this as an opportunity to give them a friendly shove in the PHP 5 direction.
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Dev Shed - December 11th, 2006
Are you one of those PHP developers looking for a tight and powerful RDBMS other than MySQL in order to build your next database-driven website Then hopefully your search is finished. Welcome to the second installment of the series Using SQLite with PHP 5. Comprised of three articles this series walks you through the implementation of the most important methods that come bundled with SQLite and shows you how to use them with numerous practical examples….
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PHP Developer - December 11th, 2006
Continuing with their look at PHP5 and SQLite, DevShed has posted part two of the series - “Using Unbuffered Queries and More with SQLite with PHP 5″.
Taking into account the group of characteristics that I mentioned [a few lines above], in this second tutorial of the series, I’ll be taking a look at some of them. This will give you a clearer idea of how to use them as part of your existing and — why not? — future PHP applications.
They take a look at the hows and whys of working with the unbuffered queries and well as some examples - counting rows and fields in a database table and looking at the use of more “row-processing methods” to get different sorts of data out.
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PHP Developer - December 11th, 2006
After having some issues with spam comments over on his blog, Ryan Malesevich decided to do something about it. So, being the WordPress fan that he is, he implemented a new plugin to help things a bit - removing the ability to comment on a post older than 21 days.
I’m using a plugin called Auto-Close Comments. Whenever you write a post, edit a post, or anything similar to that, it will go through the database and close any comments for posts older than three weeks. I’m going to try it out for a while to see how my spam comments are altered.
You need to install it manually since there’s no official packaged plugin for it, but it’s a pretty simple matter of cut & paste to get it working. Then, you just define the number of days that you want the cutoff to be and you’re all set.
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