PHP Developer - July 5th, 2007
On the Zend Developer Zone today, they’ve posted the latest PHP Abstract Podcast covering the PHP-Java Bridge:
Our special guest today is Kevin Schroder. Kevin is a technical consultant for Zend Technologies’ Professional Services Group. He has wide range of experience from large scale system administration to software development in multiple languages. Based out of Dallas, TX, he travels throughout the country for Zend providing consulting, programming and architecture services centered on PHP.
Topics mentioned include the Java Bridge (obviously), the Zend Platform and Zend’s Professional Services.
You can either grab the show directly from here or subscribe to their feed and get this and other great shows in the PHP Abstract series.
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PHP Developer - July 5th, 2007
DevShed wraps up their look at databases in PHP (a excerpted from “Programming PHP, Second Edition”) with this new tutorial showing how to insert and work with PDO prepared statements.
Concluding our discussion of databases and PHP, we’ll finish building the [administration portion of the website] example that we started last week.
They start with the code for the administration page for adding a new record to the table - in this case, a business. They give the code to handle the submit and how to display a list of the current businesses. They wrap it up with a look at working with PHP Data Objects (PDO) and using them to create prepared statements.
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PHP Developer - July 5th, 2007
According to this new post on the PHPClasses.org blog today, they’re launching some premium services for the users of the site:
It is with great pleasure that I announce that the PHP Classes site finally launched the premium services for PHP developers that use the site. […] The premium subscriptions are the alternative that I found to make this site provide a pleasant user experience and hopefully provide useful features that can help making the life of PHP developers better.
He goes into detail on what all is involved in the premium subscriptions including:
- No advertising
- Own site search
- Recorded searches
- Notable packages
- PHP Specialist forums
There’s also several other services that are listed as “coming soon” to further enhance the site - customizable site design templates, new class wish lists, personalized bookmarks, etc. The cost for all of the premium services comes to $5 USD/month (with $15 USD due at a time because of restrictions on the payment gateway).
Another pair of interesting notes about the future of the site are mentions of revenue sharing for best contributors and the opportunity for free subscriptions.
You can get complete information about these premium services from its page on the PHPClasses.org website.
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PHP Developer - July 5th, 2007
The PHP-GTK Community site has posted a new poll that ask PHP-GTK developers which, of the choices provided is their favorite editing widget used in their applications.
The choices are:
- GtkScintilla
- GtkSourceView
- GtkTextView
They also included the “Homegrown” option for anyone that might have whipped up their own. At the time of this posting, GtkScintilla and GtkTextView are tied with two votes apiece. If you’re a PHP-GTK developer and have worked much with text editing widgets, head over and cast your vote today!
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