Archive for January 3rd, 2007
PHP Developer - January 3rd, 2007
As mentioned briefly by Pierre-Alain Joye, the documentation (on the Livedocs website) has been updated for the XMLWriter package.
This is the XMLWriter extension. It wraps the libxml xmlWriter API.
This extension represents a writer that provides a non-cached, forward-only means of generating streams or files containing XML data.
This extension can be used in an object oriented style or a procedural one. Every method documented describes the alternative procedural call.
The updated documentation cn be found here.
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PHP Developer - January 3rd, 2007
In an effort to share a wide variety of web-related resources with our readers, we’ve posted a new book review over on our blog for the Prentice Hall book “The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites” (2nd edition).
If you do anything on a website besides sitting in you chair only coding all day long, you owe it to yourself to check out a copy of this book from Prentice Hall - The Design of Sites. Now, I can almost feel the eyes rolling from here even at the mention of this kind of book, but trust me - pick up a copy and thumb through it and you’ll see the difference.
Check out the rest of the review here and get more details on the book itself from the Prentice Hall site or from a retailer like Amazon.
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PHP Developer - January 3rd, 2007
Elizabeth Smith has created an automated system that generates a complete installation of PHP-GTK2 and PHP5 on a local (Windows) machine.
They’re almost working - I’m still trying to coax xdebug to build properly, I have libglade and scintilla php-gtk extensions that work perfectly, gtkspell and gtksourceview extensions that work but spit glib errors to the console (they don’t die though, and that’s all that matters), and a gtkmozembed extension that builds but crashes whenever you try to load a url.
You can check out the latest builds on callicore.com including the libraries she had to include to get things to compile correctly (zip archives).
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PHP Developer - January 3rd, 2007
On his blog today, Christopher Jones hands the floor off to Luxi Chidambaran to talk some about “Highly Scalable Connection Pooling in PHP“.
Oracle Database Resident Connection Pooling - a connection pooling feature in the next version of the Oracle DB that will allow very high traffic web sites to scale better. We announced this feature at Oracle OpenWorld in 2006. One cool thing about the feature is that it is not just limited to PHP - any database client could use it.
Luxi talks about pooling in general, pooling database connections specifically, how Oracle handles it and the three views around it - DBA, Client side, and the PHP user views.
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PHP Developer - January 3rd, 2007
php|architect has started their latest promotion - the “7-Day Promo Fest”:
We’re happy to announce that our 7-day Promo Fest promotion kicks off on January 3rd with a 50% off sale on our own Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide.
Check out the full details for these next few days with discounts on things ranging from half off a Vulcan practice test and half price on all of their online training courses.
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