Archive for March 15th, 2007
PHP Developer - March 15th, 2007
Jacob Santos has started a series of posts to his blog that focuses on the use of the opcode cache and language features in your applications.
The posts will be researched and go through multiple drafts for professionalism before posting. In this hope, it will strive to enable discussion that isn’t flaming and collective of the topic at hand. For as much as I can achieve at my level of writing skill and researching the topic at hand.
He he goes through the purpose of the posts, the areas he’s going to focus on, some about the theory that will be used, and the implementation and documentation he’ll provide through the series.
Continue Reading ·
PHP Developer - March 15th, 2007
The International PHP Magazine has posted the results of their latest question to the community - which of the options given is the main hindrance for PHP5’s adoption.
Options included “PHP5 does not support CMS”, “PHP5 is slow”, and “PHP4 fulfills all the needs”. The option that came out on top, however, was “The user’s ISP is old and not updated to support newer versions” with 49.5 percent of the votes. Coming in behind it was the “none” option which might suggest that PHP5 adoption isn’t all that slow anymore.
They’ve also started up their newest poll asking which of the listed features are ones that developers would like to see in PHPUnit the most (including the options “Mutation testing” and “support for distributed testing”).
Continue Reading ·
PHP Developer - March 15th, 2007
The Zend Developer Zone has posted a sample chapter of one of the latest APress PHP-related releases, “The Definitive Guide to Symfony”.
Continuing in their tradition of having their finger on the pulse of PHP, apress has recently released their latest title, The Definitive Guide to symfony. My friend, Julie Miller sent me over the first chapter to share with you.
The chapter [pdf] is the beginning of the book, the introduction to get you started on the road to using the framework.
Continue Reading ·
PHP Developer - March 15th, 2007
In a new tutorial on PHPBuilder.com today, they walk you through the use of the use of the mysqli interface in PHP.
This article will illustrate some basic techniques for using the mysqli interface. This is a great tool to use in php5 because it doesn’t need any include libraries like PEAR, etc; it is compiled right into the distribution.
They start things simple, showing how to make the mysqli connection in your script, including how to set up the connection parameters. They move quickly into making queries on the database - first a simple one with a loop and then a more complex example with a prepared query. They wrap things up by helping you create a simple class that works as a bit of an abstraction layer to query and report on the results returned.
Continue Reading ·
Dev Shed - March 15th, 2007
In this week s part of a multi-part series covering OC4J and J2EE applications you will learn how to deploy J2EE applications create data sources and more. This article is excerpted from chapter eight of the em Oracle 1 g Application Server Exam Guide em written by Sam Alapati McGraw-Hill ISBN 7226271 ….
Rackspace: Save on Web Hosting in March! Start working with The Hosting Experts today and Save - Get Free Setup in March!
Continue Reading ·