PHP News #7

PHP news for the fortnight ending August 27th, 2010. Jolt is a new PHP5.3+ framework aimed at fast and efficient web application development. CodeMash a multi development language technical conference on current practices, methodologies and technology trends. January 12-14, 2011, Sandusky, Ohio. Embarcadero RAD Studio XE with support for PHP Registration opens for ZendCon 2010. [...] Related posts:

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Posted on 27 August 2010 | 1:10 am

PHP Events and Content Updates

PHP devReview is adding a section for PHP events. This can be conferences, unconferences or any significant gathering of PHP developers. It need not be a purely PHP event. Know of a relevant event, let us know, and we can add it to the list. Our list of PHP frameworks, code editors and book is [...] Related posts:

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Posted on 16 August 2010 | 1:22 am

PHP News #6

PHP news to August 13th, 2010. New Yii1.1 and PHP5 book. Sign of a framework reaching mass. PHP Code Browser 0.9 (beta) released. Visual analysis of your PHP code. Zend Framework 2 (2.0.0dev1). First development milestone released. Padraic Brady reviews some of the PHP based HTML sanitisers. Related posts:PHP News #5 PHP news to August [...] Related posts:

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Posted on 13 August 2010 | 7:16 am

PHP News #5

PHP news to August 6th, 2010. New PHP drivers for for SQL Server released, under an Apache 2.0 license. Zend framework 1.10.7 released. Bug fixes including an update for Zend_Service_Twitter, as Twitter moves to OAuth. PHPNW conference on October 9 & 10, 2010 in Manchester, UK. New PHP Excel extension from Ilia Alshanetsky. Call for [...] Related posts:

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Posted on 5 August 2010 | 11:40 pm

PHP News #4

News to July 30th, 2010. Slow week for new releases. ZendCon 2010. November 1 – 4, Santa Clara, CA. Early bird registration until August 28th. Zend Unlimited Subscription program for business that need unlimited number of subscriptions to Zend’s software and technical support services crVCL PHP Framework, rapid application development framework inspired by JEDI VCL [...] Related posts:

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Posted on 30 July 2010 | 7:05 am

Evolving PHP Frameworks

There are no shortage of PHP frameworks, some grow large vibrant communities and a number wither and die over time. A number of the larger frameworks by user base have announced plans for the next steps in their evolution. Specifically we examine the next major versions of Zend Framework, Symfony, CodeIgniter and CakePHP. Zend Framework [...] Related posts:

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Posted on 27 July 2010 | 1:00 am

PHP Output Formatting

When it comes to creating output that will be returned to a user browser, there are a number of functions & language constructs available to achieve this. This article will examine the use of echo, print & printf. Echo echo allows for simple outputting of 1 or more strings. The following 4 simple examples which [...] No related posts.

Posted on 25 July 2010 | 10:33 pm

PHP News #3

PHP developer news for week ending July 23rd, 2010. PHP 5.2.14 released. Bug & security release and the end of active support for the 5.2 line. PHP 5.3.3 released. Over 100 fixes with a number of security enhancements. CakePHP 1.3.3 rainbow icing edition released. Phalanx PHP Framework. Event driven PHP5.3+ framework. Conferences CodeIgniter Con 2010. [...] Related posts:

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Posted on 22 July 2010 | 10:00 pm

PHP News #2

PHP developer news for week ending July 16th, 2010. PHP For Android (PFA). Use your PHP skills on an Android device. CouchDB the document-oriented, Non-Relational Database Management Server (NRDBMS) goes 1.0. WebMatrix. Microsoft making it easier to install PHP apps on Windows. A new book – Pro PHP Refactoring from Apress. Swiftlet. Another lightweight MVC [...] No related posts.

Posted on 16 July 2010 | 2:51 am

Why use PHP?

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Posted on 15 July 2010 | 10:22 pm