http://www.phpro.org/feed.php PHP Articles from PHPRO Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:58:47 +0000 eZ Components Feed dev (http://ezcomponents.org/docs/tutorials/Feed) http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.phpro.org/articles/Google-App-Engine.html Google has recently opened up their API for a selective ten thousand developers with many tens of thousands more lined up to get access to what is the hotest access in town. But many are not so sure that the Google offering is all it seems to be, and comparisons to a wolf in sheeps clothing abound with concerns that this may be just another bid by Google to access cheap applications without the added cost of in house development. http://www.phpro.org/articles/SUN-MySQL-PgSQL.html It is no secret that SUN have recently purchased the MySQL database and have plans which include closing source on code they develop for it. This is well within their rights, however, should the open source community continue to support MySQL in its new Enterprise incarnation? http://www.phpro.org/articles/Google-Summer-Of-Code-2008.html Google have released the final assignments for the 2008 Google Summer Of Code. 2008 features some heavy weight additions to teh GSoC and is sure to put in a good performance. http://www.phpro.org/articles/Pro-PHP-Book-Review.html First time author Kevin McArthur has launched his first book directly at advanced PHP users. In the face of many other PHP books circulating now, what does this new venture have that others do not? Named Pro PHP it is not immodest and promises much but what does it deliver? See what the all the hype is about. http://www.phpro.org/articles/eZ-Components-Alpha-Release.html The eZ Components team has release a new alpha package which includes many new additions to the already feature rich component library. Along with bug fixes and optimizations eZ is set to maintain its lead in web componentry for web applications. http://www.phpro.org/articles/Fixing-The-Internet.html In a recent article, internet developer Noel Forbes outlines what the problems with internet is and how a new path forward may be found within already existing technologies. Not content with simply whining about incosistencies with various among Internet developers, Forbes shows a model for a new Internet. Could we be seeing the first murmurings of Web 3.0. http://www.phpro.org/articles/Microsoft-Purchase-Yahoo-For-62-Billion.html The heat in the internet advertising just got turned up to eleven as Microsoft finally put pay to the resistance of Yahoo and settled on a price reported to be 62 Billion Dollars (USD). This is not a merger, this is a hostile take over, but what to the pundits think? Will Google respond with predatory pricing? http://www.phpro.org/articles/eZ-Components-Cache.html The team at eZ Components are once again pushing PHP technology to the limit. The functionality and flexibility of the eZ Cache component is set to be extended to increase performance at several different levels. http://www.phpro.org/articles/eZ-Components-Brings-Video-and-Photo-Sharing-To-The-Arab-World.html Al Bawaba has launched a new Arabic photo, video portal with a social networking site that is set to take the Arabic communities in the Middle East and Arabic commmunities around the world together in a way that we now take for granted. Al Bawaba has used open source PHP tools, including eZ Components to put it all together http://www.phpro.org/articles/Highlight-Search-Words.html This article shows the use of two methods of highlighting seach text using PHP. A comparison is included using strings and regex for achieving this. This functionality used on many sites to show search words to make easier navigation for the user. http://www.phpro.org/articles/PHP-v-NET.html Why is it developers and organisations choosing PHP over .NET. The .NET platform has some redeeming features yet is constantly beaten in the numbers game when compared to PHP. Is it just a trend or is PHP set to stay the course? http://www.phpro.org/articles/Custom-404-Error-Page.html How many times have users visited your site and landed on a 404 error page. Now you can have a custom 404 message displayed and perhaps keep those users on your site. This article provides the basic tools for creating your own custom 404 pages. http://www.phpro.org/articles/Why-is-sqlite-so-cool-and-why-should-I-care.html With the introduction of PHP 5 came many new and exciting features for PHP. Not least among these was the inclusion of SQLite database. http://www.phpro.org/articles/MySQL-Error-Codes.html When developing sites or applications with PHP and MySQL you have probably recieved at some time an error message or error code that is seemingly meaningless. Here is a table of MySQL Server error codes and thier error messages. Client codes and messages http://www.phpro.org/articles/Swedes-Cant-Code.html With the growth of the internet many countries have shown great technological advances. Some however, have languished behind in a turgid miama of code. This may not be their own fault and other factors may come into play. http://www.phpro.org/articles/PHP4-End-Of-Life.html Exactly 3 years since the release of PHP 5 and the news has come that PHP4 is headed for the chopping block at the end of the year. Web hosts and develpers have just six months to get into the new way of PHP life. http://www.phpro.org/articles/Zend-Framework.html What is all the buzz about at Zend. The long awaited framework has been a long time in the making and many see it as the new way forward for web development. In this article we take it for a test run and see what Zend has to offer. http://www.phpro.org/articles/PHP-Docs-Evil-Plans.html Evil Plans(tm) are in the making for the PHP documentation translations. Could your language be the next on the chopping block? Here we reveal why the docs effort is on a downhill slide. http://www.phpro.org/articles/Finding-A-Developer.html Many have been through the hoops of finding a PHP developer. Many also find themselves running into cut and paste kiddies or programmers from countries at five bucks an hour. How to seperate the good from the bad and how to get what you pay for. http://www.phpro.org/articles/Microsoft-Purchases-Zend-for-113-Million.html At 10:00am today Zend issued a press release stating its intention to sell a controlling majority of its stock to Microsoft (MSFT). Previous rumours about a bidding war between Oracle and Microsoft had been played down in the Zend camp with zero output re