PHP Developer - August 17th, 2007
The Bakery has six new articles/tutorials they’ve added to their long list today including topics like ecache, working with behaviors and using Eclipse with CakePHP. Here’s the list:
Be sure to check out The Bakery for more great CakePHP related content.
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PHP Developer - August 17th, 2007
The Pro::PHP Podcast has released their latest episode - the Newscast for August 16,2007:
As you may have noticed by now, there [was no] no August 9 podcast. Instead, we chose to postpone the podcast until August 16 (1 week), so Paul [could] join us.
Some of the topics mentioned in this week’s show include:
There’s two easy ways to get the show - either subscribe to their feed and get this and other great shows or just
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PHP Developer - August 17th, 2007
Wanting to test out a new way of doing things, Evert Pot decided to write up some tests using a Value Object style of data storage versus just in arrays:
In a lot of cases arrays are used in PHP to store object-like information, like the results of a database query. I do this a lot too, but I kind of want to change things around to make use of VO’s. I feel this makes a lot more sense, since most of the application I build are heavy OOP anyway, and I get all the added OOP benefits, like type-hinting, inheritance.. well, you know the deal.
In his tests he creates an array of data, a value block of three “properties”, looped 1000 times) and a block of three actual properties on an object. Between each, he’s using the XDebug memory usage functions to check to see which uses less resources.
Overall, there’s really not that much of a difference between using either of them. So, basically, it’s up to you which storage method is the simplest for you to use.
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PHP Developer - August 17th, 2007
php|architect magazine has released their latest issue - the August 2007 edition. The cover story for this month is a piece by Dirk Merkel covering the automation and benchmarking/code profiling of your application to find potential issues before your customers/users do.
Other great articles in this issue include:
- a look at Flex and the Zend Framework
- part one of a series on normalization (Chinese)
- using cURL to extract pages and their data
- “The Job Interview” - an insiders guide.
There’s two ways to get this issue - you can either subscribe to the magazine for a year (the PDF edition is only $40 USD) or you can buy the single issue for about $5 USD.
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PHP Developer - August 17th, 2007
Michael Kimsal has started up a new site, Tech Book Reviews, to cover some of the most recent releases from the major technology-related book publishers out there (like APress, O’Reilly, Wrox, etc. His first review if of an APress book covering the use of a popular PHP content management system, Drupal.
Apress’ recent Pro Drupal Development packs quite a lot of information in its 400+ pages. Matt Westgate and John K. VanDyk have done an admirable job of shedding light on a lot of the more complex topics surrounding Drupal.
Michael goes on to talk about some of his options on Drupal and opinions on the book. Overall, he recommends the book - but only for a certain range of people. Developers that have really gotten into the “guts” of the application will probably already know most of the topics presented.
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