Archive for January 16th, 2008
PHP Developer - January 16th, 2008
Feel like giving a bit back to something open source but aren’t sure quite where to go? Well, the PHPWomen group is asking for donations to help further the women’s group and its efforts:
As you know, we like to give out our free t-shirts at conferences to help spread the word about our group. […] We also want to help out those who may be in need of training materials, help with the ZCE exam, or who want to speak at conferences, but may not afford to be able to do it.
They also have some other fund raising ideas in the works to help accomplish some of these goals too. You can also get involved and help out even if you don’t have extra cash. Volunteer for the mentoring program or just offer a helping hand when they might need it.
Check out Elizabeth Naramore’s blog post for more details.
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PHP Developer - January 16th, 2008
Cory Borrow has posted a tutorial he’s created to show how to harness the power of PHP and GD to create thumbnail images out of the contents of a text file.
Today, I’ll give a little info on how to achieve the process of creating a thumbnail using PHP, GD and the text from a text file. It is really pretty simple, so lets get started.
The trick behind the translation is in reading in the contents of the (plain) text file and pushing it into a string value of a newly created GD-generated image. He includes the code to make using it in your own app simple (a cut and paste version) - his method FileToThumb.
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PHP Developer - January 16th, 2008
The Bakery has lots of new things they’ve posted recently - information on new components, tutorials, and details on new releases of the framework. Here’s a sampling of some of the latest:
Be sure to keep checking back on The Bakery for the new content added all the time.
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PHP Developer - January 16th, 2008
The Zend Developer Zone has posted today about a new webinar from Zend touting “everything you need to know” about the PHP 5 certification exam that the company offers.
Zend Certified Engineers are the most sought after PHP developers. […] To become a Zend Certified Engineer developers must pass the Certification exam covering a wide range of PHP topics. Attend the Zend Certified Engineer Webinar and hear all the details about the exam.
The webinar will happen on January 30th at about 9am (PST) and will be hosted by Beth Gomez. You can reserve your spot today by signing up over on Zend’s pages on Webex.com or just get more information about it from this page over on the Zend site.
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PHP Developer - January 16th, 2008
Kasper Johansen has posted to the PHP-GTK Community website some information about a new application that can help manage databases like phpMyAdmin does (and uses a PHP framework to do it - knj SQL-admin.
This application can manage a database for you, in the way phpMyAdmin does. Furthermore, it can convert various types of databases to another type of database (ig from MySQL to SQLite, Access to MySQL, PostgreSQL to MySQL and more).
You can get more information about the project and framework from its site over on SourceForge.
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