Archive for May 3rd, 2007
PHP Developer - May 3rd, 2007
Andi Gutmans has good news for anyone out thre that has wanted to get involved with the Zend Framework on a more official level - they’re looking to grow the core team:
Zend Framework has become an immensely successful project. […] There’s a large community of contributors, over 15 translations of the documentation and runs some cool apps like IBM’s QedWiki.
We are currently looking to grow the team with very experienced Senior Web developers, both from within and outside the PHP community.
Those interested should look forward to working in a “broad, vibrant and passionate community”. Check out the full job description for more information.
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PHP Developer - May 3rd, 2007
The Pro::PHP Podcast has released their latest show today - this week’s news cast hosted by Sean Coates and Paul Reinheimer.
Topics discussed this week include:
You can get the new show in one of two ways - either head over to the site and subscribe to their RSS feed or just grab the file directly.
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PHP Developer - May 3rd, 2007
Continuing on from a previous post on multi-threading in PHP, Brian Bosh is back with something a bit more developed that will allow for communication between the threads as well.
Earlier this week, I suggested PHP could be multithreaded. The sample I provided was very simple and at least one reader quickly wondered how to communicate with threads. If you haven’t already, take a look at part 1 to get some basic information about threads in PHP.
It took a bit longer to get that part working that simple threads, but as of now, I have a functional prototype of an HVAC thread.
The post is broken up into five different files to make things work:
- an overall class for the main functionality (their example of running the heater or AC)
- a class to create and set up a thread
- a “thready utility” class to handle the response from a thread
- a thread library to handle creation/interaction/etc
- the example file of the system in use
Following the code, he gives a nice explanation of how things work and how they all fit together.
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PHP Developer - May 3rd, 2007
Damien Seguy has kept up the good work and has posted this month’s PHP statistics for the past month’s data (April 2007).
Here are the PHP stats for March 2007. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 10.1 millions servers hosted on 2.3 millions IP were surveyed during December, and 22.8 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered.
Stats cover a wide range of topics including:
Also, be sure to check out the evolution stats for the past month, showing some of the trends for the past months as compared to April.
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PHP Developer - May 3rd, 2007
The results from the latest poll the International PHP Magazine conducted this past week are in. The question they asked developers to respond to was “Which One of the Following Ensures Smooth Implementation of PHP Sessions?”.
Options this time were:
- Don’t use underscore in host names
- Commit your session before it redirects
- Prevent session fixation
- Don’t expose session_id’s
The results were pretty close for all of the options with one coming out on top (committing the session) and two tying for second - preventing session fixation and not exposing session IDs.
Subversion and Symfony users should cast their votes in this week’s poll. It asks, of the four options given, which is your favorite “trick” to running the Symfony framework with Subversion.
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