Archive for July 24th, 2007
PHP Developer - July 24th, 2007
The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest episode of their PHP Abstract podcast series - an introduction to Service Component Architecture.
Today’s special guest is Graham Charters. Graham works at IBM’s development lab in Hursley, England. His past roles have included WebSphere Application Server development, and architecture responsibilities in WebSphere Business Integration, and Adapters. […] Today Graham is going to talk to us today about the Service Component Architecture, or SCA.
Graham talks about what SCA is and includes a mention of the PECL package that enables PHP applications to work with multiple data sources seamlessly.
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PHP Developer - July 24th, 2007
Chad has passed along a note today about a new release from the ITema group - the first Enterprise service bus for PHP developers, Blackbird.
ITema, Inc. today released Blackbird, its PHP enterprise service bus (ESB), to the Open Source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Blackbird allows PHP developers to rapidly develop loosely-coupled software applications, allowing them to leverage PHP’s development speed and ease of use for application integration tasks.
It works well with Apache ServiceMix (via a common message queue) and has an “extensive collection of APIs, protocol handlers and XML/string parsing routines”. The software is available for download and is released under the GNU General Public License as free for both personal and business use. There is also commercial support available as well as a forum to help you get the answers you need.
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PHP Developer - July 24th, 2007
Pádraic Brady has posted two new updates about his OpenID library for PEAR - one concerning the previous version being available from a subversion repository and the other about some updates to the source.
From the first post:
So after a few days throwing around code in an IDE, a small amount of swearing, and an overdose of caffeine, I have committed initial OpenID PHP5 code in it’s shiny new PEARified form to subversion. What this means is that after a few more days of completion to work out major kinks, the PEAR-Dev mailing list will be notified of a new OpenID Consumer proposal 
. A Server proposal will follow at a later date, i.e. when the dull ache in my forearms subsides. The repostory: http://svn.astrumfutura.org/pear/trunk/OpenID/
And, from the second post:
Just a quick update on the PHP OpenID 2.0 library being proposed to PEAR. The library is a PHP5 implementation of the OpenID 2.0 Authentication Specification. It’s currently only including a Consumer (so you can build OpenID authentication into websites) but a Server is already in the works for later.
Be sure to check out both of posts for lots more information than’s presented here. Pádraic’s worked hard on the package - check out the alpha code at http://svn.astrumfutura.org/pear/trunk/ to see just how much.
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PHP Developer - July 24th, 2007
The Akelos project has posted a screencast of their framework in action, their answer to the “Creating a blog in 15 minutes” screencast that the Ruby on Rails folks tout so heavily.
This video shows you how to create a weblog engine from scratch using Akelos in just 12 minutes, we implement comments and an administrative interface, so we also had time to cover other Akelos PHP Framework areas.
You can either watch it there on the page or download the quicktime video to watch and learn.
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PHP Developer - July 24th, 2007
The phpDocumentor project has announced the release of their latest version (a stable!) - phpDocumentor 1.4.0 - on their site today:
The PhpDocumentor team would like to announce the release of PhpDocumentor version 1.4.0 through SourceForge and pear.php.net. This is the first stable feature release since 2006.
This new release adds in functionality for new tags for “magic” properties and methods, some new runtime options (like ignoresymlinks and undocumentedelements) and puts a new memory_limit option on the ini file to help keep it more under control.
You can grab the latest download either through a “pear upgrade” or directly from the project’s SourceForge site. Their latest post also includes the complete Changelog for more details on the updates.
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