Archive for January 14th, 2008
PHP Developer - January 14th, 2008
The PHP London conference has officially released their schedule for this year’s event. It includes speakers like Wez Furlong, Rob Allen and Derick Rethans and combines several different talks into one day of PHP goodness.
This year’s event is happening at the headquarters of Inmarsat Limited (location and maps can be found on the venue page). Registration is now open and you can still get in on the Early Bird discount of £90.
Be sure to check out the list of talks they have planned and the rest of the details on their site and be sure to reserve your spot today!
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PHP Developer - January 14th, 2008
In the process of debugging one of his scripts, Brian Moon came across a default setting (and problem) in the MySQL extension that didn’t seem to make much sense to him:
There are several reasons that PHP could not be able to connect to MySQL. […] Or, perhaps the entire server is offline.
The mysql.connect_timeout setting in the php.ini is supposed to handle this sort of instance, but the default is set tpo 60 seconds. It’s only apparently used when the server is completely offline and, in his opinion, is set way too high. He’s proposing a patch to the MySQL extension to change this setting’s default to shorten it to something a bit more reasonable.
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PHP Developer - January 14th, 2008
Havard Eide is asking for your help in a new entry to his blog. He’s looking for ways to speed up his development in Eclipse, specifically in the debugging.
There is one thing I do need over everything else: remote debugging. Having used Zend Studio for 3 years now it hasn’t been the best editor ( I’d rather prefer PHPEclipse/PDT ) but the remote debugging facility is superb […] Eclipse it has all the tools you need to develop with but the debugging is slow, way too slow!
He’s looking for anyone out there that might be able to help him speed up the debugging on his Leopard-installed version of Eclipse (”So slow actually that I had to install Zend Studio 5.5 for whenever I have to debug a file…”)
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PHP Developer - January 14th, 2008
Andrew Johnstone has posted some of his experience he’s had developing with one of Zend’s latest offerings - Zend Neon. Neon is the Zend project to bring robust PHP development functionality to the community on top of the Eclipse platform.
I’ve been using Zend Studio for Eclipse (beta) for several weeks in a rewrite of a framework and numerous sites at work and overall I really like the IDE. Its got some great features and being based on the eclipse project makes it really extensible and customizable.
He happy overall with the IDE but has come across some bugs in his time developing in it (nine of them) with issues ranging from the SVN functionality and samba out to small syntax sorts of things (like the auto-formatting).
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PHP Developer - January 14th, 2008
Padraic Brady has posted a manifesto of sorts about the work that he’s been doing on his PHPSpec library and trying to work it into the approval process for the Zend Framework.
I’ll be attempting to pound the Zend Framework into submission so I can apply Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) using PHPSpec when I write a Controller. Why? Because I feel like it, and it gives me an excuse to promote one possible incarnation of PHPMock and the PHPSpec Zend Framework extension. See? Perfectly reasonable selfishness!
He hopes to move it past the typical test-driven development process that PHPUnit offers and “kick your ass into high-TDD gear” without having to have worked much with it before then (the key is simplicity).
He includes some code examples (how it should flow) and describes some of the challenges that he’s coming across so far, specifically with the way that the Zend Framework works with the Controllers and what he wants to accomplish.
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