Archive for July 26th, 2007
PHP Developer - July 26th, 2007
Padraic Brady has an announcement posted to his blog today - his OpenID PEAR has officially been proposed to the PEAR group for consideration.
Yes, my OpenID 2.0 PHP5 Consumer has finally been proposed to PEAR. This brings the OpenID fanaticism on PEAR to four packages: OpenID_Consumer, Services_Yadis, Crypt_HMAC2, Crypt_DiffieHellman.
He’ll be working to get the code “further up to par” including Nonce validation, more consistent error reporting and other operation modes (like check_immediate). He’s also included a screencast in the post for those not familiar with OpenID to get their first dose.
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PHP Developer - July 26th, 2007
On the AxisVista blog, there’s a new tutorial looking at the creation of a PHP5 DOM-based templating engine that makes it easier for designers to work with a site and not have to know PHP to do so.
At the office today, I had a talk with our designers, so they want a “designer-friendly” template engine. Sounds easy, but it isn’t. That is why I decided to write this very short post to help others having such “easy” problems.
First he lays out the requirements for the project, then heads off to Google to see if there’s anything similar. He found PRADO but it still lacked some of what he needed. So, deciding on developing his own Templating system, he creates a system that supports:
- Caching
- WYSIWYG & Dynamic Tag Handlers
- States
- PHP Tags
The code (and results) are included in the post, both in code blocks and for download.
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PHP Developer - July 26th, 2007
As mentioned by the International PHP Magazine site and on this Trac page for the Roadsend SiteManager software, they’re working on porting it up to PHP5.
The latest available version, Roadsend PHP SiteManager 4.0.0 beta, was ported to PHP5. Database access has switched from PEAR to PDO. A script is included to help port existing projects. This version of SiteManager no longer uses PEAR DB - it uses the PDO database routines in PHP5 so there are a few changes to make. There is a script included in bin/php4tophp5.php which you can run on your current scripts to make most of the changes
Currently, you can download the latest beta from their website and check out the Trac website for the project to keep up with the latest advancements.
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PHP Developer - July 26th, 2007
In a post from Lukas Smith, he gives responses to some of the questions/comments people have to say about PHP, specifically in how it’s related to Java.
Whenever someone asks me why PHP is more “agile” than Java, I tell them that in PHP you can break most of the rules your comp sci course told you about and get away with it. Of course this means that you need PHP developers to constantly clean up their code.
He talks about rules for developing in PHP, one being not to change a method so make it incompatible with its parent. He recommends one way to avoid this - the E_STRICT warning to protect against possible conflicts and issues (the same kind of functionality in PHP6 is in E_FATAL though).
Please, lets get the sense back here. Lets not make things that are not fatal an E_FATAL. Lets use E_STRICT for the pedantic, lets add a E_DEPRECATED for all things deprecated. Lets not kill what makes PHP more agile than those other languages that think they know what I should be spending my time on.
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Dev Shed - July 26th, 2007
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