PHP Developer - December 28th, 2007
Ivo Jansch is very happy to announce that it’s official - he will be authoring a book for php|architect all about PHP in the Enterprise:
It will be one of the first books about PHP that will not cover PHP code. It is loosely based on my ‘enterprise PHP development’ talk at the Zend UK Business Conference last year. It will cover the entire development lifecycle of a software project, but targeted at PHP development teams.
He points out that the first version of the book will be handed in in March so ideally it will be released soon after that. He’s also open to ideas/content suggestions/etc that you might want to post to his blog for consideration.
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PHP Developer - December 28th, 2007
Evan Sims has official released his first version of a library he’s worked up to interface PHP with the GameFly.com video game rental service:
I’m releasing libGameFly, a PHP class for interacting with GameFly.com - the video game rental service. At the moment it’s very simple, just allowing you to expose your GameFly queue as a native PHP class and doing… well, whatever the hell you want with it.
It works with some of the feed functionality (RSS/APIs) to grab data about users’ accounts. You can download the code here from the project’s Google Code page.
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PHP Developer - December 28th, 2007
The ProDevTips website has posted part seven of their series covering the construction of a community site (or CMS) with the combination of Smarty and the Zend Framework.
Since XOOPS didn’t do it for me when it comes to this project I have started with the blog component. As it turns out, a blog is more complicated than you would think. Therefore this part will not cover the whole component, only as far as I’ve gotten at the moment. Covering the whole process in one piece would make it a very long piece indeed.
He provides the code examples and complete SQL structure to get the blog up and rolling as well as some handy tips and explanations along the way.
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PHP Developer - December 28th, 2007
The Zend Developer Zone has posted a review of Packt Publishing’s “Learning PHP Data Objects” book writen up by Akash Mehta.
In Learning PHP Data Objects, the author Dennis Popel examines this new [database access] system and explains how to begin using PDO in development as a replacement for typical database drivers. The book is an excellent introduction to the data abstraction layer and also provides essential insight into the inner workings of database interaction with PHP.
Akash talks briefly about the history of PDO and what it can be used for first, then gets into the contents of the book (things like the intro chapters and the quality of the writing). The thing he thinks makes the bok stand out, though, is the examples and sample code that reflect both simple methods and more complex issues PDO developers might run into.
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