Archive for July, 2007
PHP Developer - July 31st, 2007
In a new post today, Fernando Bassani puts the PHP-Java bridge to the test in an effort to stretch the abilities of PHP to fit his needs.
Last week, in a meeting with my boss and another developer, we’ve decided to test the PHP/Java Bridge. As the project that we are currenlty working (a manager for PLC networks) has grown a lot, we have noticed that we need to do some things that PHP can’t do by itself. We often use shell_exec() to execute some shell commands. But it wouldn’t fit in this case, as we need some specific things.
He goes through the decision process on with implementation to use (they went with the Java bridge) and the process of getting it set up and working on a Ubuntu system. Sample code to test that everything’s in working order is included.
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PHP Developer - July 31st, 2007
Sebastian Bergmann points out something that’s been a long time coming for PHPUnit - IDE support in the form of additions to two popular PHP editors, PHPEdit and Zend Studio.
The support is very much welcomed, but Sebastian does still have one wish, though:
It would be great, though, if someone develops a free PHPUnit support for the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project (or for vim for which there is already SimpleTest support. If you are using PHPEclipse, there is still the SimpleTest plugin for PHPEclipse that also supports PHPUnit.
You can check out the support provided for PHPUnit from these two editors by checking out these links for PHPEdit and this page for Zend Studio.
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PHP Developer - July 31st, 2007
DevShed starts off a new series of articles today with the first part of a series covering the construction of a search engine with MySQL and PHP5.
It’s valid to notice that aside from the wealth of web-based applications that can be built quite easily with PHP, there’s one in particular that’s becoming very popular with many modern web sites as they grow in size. In this case, I’m talking about developing an internal search engine for any web site, by using the capacities provided by the powerful MySQL/PHP 5 tandem. […] In this series, which is comprised of three instructive tutorials, I’m going to teach you how to build a web-based search application that can be easily adapted to suit your personal needs.
Part one talks about the creation of the front end for the app, how to perform searches against your data from a PHP5 script into a MySQL database and brining some of the modules of the application together (the code to both make the database request and output the results).
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PHP Developer - July 31st, 2007
According to a new post on the Zend Developer Zone, the latest version of the Zend Framework has been released - Zend Framework 1.0.1:
This mini release includes fixes for 33 issues since the 1.0.0 release
only a month ago. These issues are generally bug fixes and improvements,
though some feature additions have been included with this release. This release includes enforcement of our new policy of only publishing
documentation translations that are at least 50% complete. […] Also noteworthy for the 1.0.1 release are many improvements for
Zend_Gdata and numerous bug fixes for >Zend_Db.
Suggestions for the upcoming 1.1.0 release can be made on this wiki page on the Zend Framework site, and this new version can be downloaded directly from the Zend Framework website.
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PHP Developer - July 31st, 2007
The Symfony project has released their latest version - symfony 1.0.6 - a bug fix release - as Fabien Potencier reports:
I’ve just released symfony 1.0.6. Nothing special in this release, just bug fixes as usual:
Bugs fixed in this release include updates to the sfZendPlugin, sfWebRequest, sfWebDebug and sfTestBrowser. You can download this latest edition directly from the symfony website.
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