Da attivista e evangelizzatore del linguaggio non posso non parlarne in una categoria tutta a lui dedicata. Qui troverete tutto, ma proprio tutto, sul fantastico mondo del php.
mi era sfuggito il rilascio di php 4.3.8.
This release is made in response to several security issues that have been discovered since the 4.3.7 release. All users of PHP are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 4.3.8 as soon as possible.
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annunciazione annunciazione!
php 5.0 è stato ufficialmente rilasciato!
Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:
* The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features.
* XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/).
* A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
* A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
* A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later. This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL’s new features, such as prepared statements.
* SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their website.
* Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams.
* And lots more…
vi ricordo di non farvi prendere dalla foga da installazione e che la prima versione stabile non è mai consigliata a server mission critical!
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pare che nelle prossime 24h vedrà la luce php 5.0.0!!! quale lieto evento… non ci resta che rimanere in trepidante attesa su php.net!
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Ilia sul suo blog spiega come usare gmail come strumento per il backup della propria posta elettronica, non male l’idea…
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altro articolo sull’annosa disputa PHP vs J2EE: Why PHP Scales – A Cranky, Snarky Answer.
Molto bello, e soprattutto un nuovo punto di vista dal solito “php/j2ee è meglio perchè implementa la funzione xyz…”
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il noto IDE phpEdit (un tempo freeware ed oggi shareware) è uscito nella nuova release 1.0.1 che corregge alcuni bachi che ne impedivano l’uso con processori intel pentium 4 con hyperthreading attivo.
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Rephlux is a PHP based tool for running a continuous testing/build process on your project and taking action based on the outcome of your tests. It is inspired by the Java based CruiseControl. It is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL (see the file COPYING for details).
Rephlux is aimed at distributed developments and developments within larger teams. It was built for use on the development of the Web Application Component Toolkit[2], a PHP project on SourceForge, with the aim of providing something more useful than the SourceForge nightly builds.
Rephlux should be run as a scheduled job during application development. On each run:
* It checks your source code repository for changes since the last successful run – reporting on any revisions
* If changes are detected it checks out a working copy of your source code and runs arbitrary scripts that you define, followed by your test script
* It generates failure reports if your test script fails
* If the tests pass it will run user-defined scripts for eg. document generation, creating a tarball distribution, deploying the app to your server, etc.
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è uscito il numero di giugno di php|architect:
Cyber-PHP
Join FANN (Fast Artificial Neural Networks) library co-author as he introduces you to the wonderful world of artificial intelligence—with PHP!
This article provides an introduction to the power of neural networks through the Fast Artificial Neural Network library, including an implementation of a language classification system.Low-impact Programming with PHP and OraclePHP and Oracle are an excellent combination for creating powerful and scalable web solutions. In this article, John Neil sheds light on those performance issues that might arise only under high-traffic situations—so that you can stop them before they ever start cropping up.
PHP | FDF
Creating forms is boring. Creating forms that can be neatly printed is boring and difficult. Creating forms and saving the user input into a PDF file is next to impossible… or is it? Richard Lynch shows us how you can create beautiful-looking (and beautiful-printing) forms using Adobe PDF and the FDF library, which allows you to programmatically add data to a PDF form file.Spell checking with PHP
Mistakens hapen without a spel checker! That is a universal constant, but no one wants their typos to end up in the final product, be it an e-mail or a blog entry, and that’s what spell checking is all about. Unfortunately, for the most part this functionality is not available to many forms of web communications, such as forums, blogs and online comment systems. In this article, Ilia Alshanetsky will focus on two PHP ex-tensions that offer spell-checking functionality that can be used to validate and correct typos and spelling errors right from your scripts.PHP and XUL
Traditionally, creating a client-side GUI interface to your applications was a laborious process that required specialized development tools—until… Mozilla?!Join Jonathan Protzenko as he illustrates how a bit of XML, PHP and Javascript (and a Gecko-compatible browser) make it possible to create a top-notch GUI that is portable across multiple operating systems and requires no specialized programming languages.
The Filesystem as Your Database
Did you ever get a request to do a dynamic web page but have the client not want to pay the exorbitant amounts of money for database access? In this article, Peter MacIntyre will guide you in designing dynamic web pages (mostly form handling of data) on the cheap through the use of the file management functions found within PHP.
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I css, se utilizzati come unico strumento per la definizione del layout di un sito, raggiungono facilmente dimensioni ragguardevoli. Php offre uno strumento per comprimerli fino all’80%.
Chiaramente la tecnica può essere applicata con poche modifiche anche a file con altre estensioni (e in particolare a file php). Da notare che questa tecnica non richiede alcun tipo di controllo sul server che ospita il sito (ovvero non richiede l’installazione di mod_gzip).
[via I Use It]
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