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PHPDeveloper.org Newsletter for March 27, 2006
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2006-03-27 13:07:41

PHPDeveloper.org Newsletter

Welcome to this week's PHPDeveloper.org Newsletter! This weekly wrap-up encompasses the past week's worth of news from the site. PHPDeveloper.org covers a wide range of topics - everything from official news about development of the PHP language to the opinions that a PHP developer has shared on their blog.

The content below is ordered not only by day, but also by "popularity" - the number of times they've been viewed. The "More Info" link on each item can be clicked to go directly to the PHPDeveloper.org article.



Stories for 03/21/2006

PHP Kitchen: Seagull Gets Top Marks in Recent Framework Comparison
In a new post on PHPKitchen.com, Demian Turner notes that the framework he's a developer on, Seagull, recieved high marks in a recent comparison of 10 PHP frameworks.
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Utah PHP Users Group: CodeIgniter - the PHP answer?
With all of the frenzy in the PHP community surrounding the issue of frameworks, more and more articles on the subject are showing up - including this new post from the Utah PHP User Group site, a look at CodeIgniter.
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Justin Silverton's Blog: PHP Security Mistakes - Part 2
Justin Silverton continues his "PHP Security Mistakes" series with this new post, looking at issues surrounding system calls, file uploads, and including files into your scripts.
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Chris Shiflett's Blog: php|architect - March 2006 Edition
Chris Shiflett has posted about the release of the latest issue from php|architect - March 2006 - and some of the security-related content inside.
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php|architect: March 2006 Issue Released
The March 2006 issue of php|architect magazine has been released and is available for purchase from their site.
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Stories for 03/22/2006

ThinkPHP Blog: Eclipse PHP IDE Preview
The ThinkPHP blog has posted this pointer to some new information on an anticipated piece of software in the PHP community - the Zend/Eclipse collaboration on a PHP IDE. The post provides a link to this new information over on the Zend site, a short introduction to installing the extension.
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Pierre's Blog: Enchant, spelling for everyone
Pierre posts today about a spelling library that's moving up through the ranks because of its ease of use - Enchant.
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Professional PHP Blog: php|architect Test Pattern
The Professional PHP blog has this post today with a highlight of an article in the latest issue of php|architect magazine. Specifically, he (Jeff Moore) mentions taking on the duties of the "Test Pattern" column from the previous author, Marcus Baker.
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Derick Rethans' Blog: #ezcomponents/freenode
If you're an eZ components fan and have been wondering where you can find some community for these powerful "building blocks" - listen up!
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Chris Shiflett's Blog: Agile PHP Testing at PHP Quebec
From Chris Shiflett today, there's a new post mentioning the talk he'll be giving at the upcoming PHP Quebec conference.
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Stories for 03/23/2006

Justin Silverton's Blog: The Zend Framework
If the manual for the Zend Framework provides just a bit too much detail, and you just want a general overview of the packages in the Framework, check out this quick list from Justin Silverton.
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ThinkPHP Blog: Eclipse, PHP and XDebug
Based on a post from the Eclipse PHP newsgroup, the ThinkPHP blog has posted about the possible integration of XDebug with the PHPEclipse project.
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Matthew Batchelder's Blog: Writing Your Server-Side Ajax Handler
Matthew Batchelder describes in his latest post about the other half of an equation he demonstrated in this previous post - the creation of an Ajax handler.
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Lukas Smith's Blog: A Perspective on the Zend/Eclipse PHP IDE
Earlier this week, Zend released their preview release of the plugin for the Eclipse editor, and several developers in the community are expressing their opinions on the matter. One such developer is Lukas Smith, who has posted two entries on his blog.
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WeberDev.com: Using Adobe's Flex Builder tool to connect a PHP backend to the front end
In a previous WeberDev.com article, Mike Potter showed how to get PHP and Flex to play nicely together, combining the two for a simple application. In this new article, he takes it a step further by showing how you can directly pass data between Flex and PHP without the need for XML generation.
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DevShed: Iterators in the Simplest Sense - Traversing Data Structures in PHP 5
Wrapping up their series on Iterators in PHP, DevShed has posted Traversing Data Structures in PHP 5 - a look a combining embedded classes with the SPL to work through your data.
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DotVoid.com: PHP streams and http 1.1 gotcha
If you work with streams in PHP, Dotvoid has a tip that just might come in handy some day in the future. The tip deals with the difference between HTTP 1.1 and 1.0.
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Ilia Alshanetsky's Blog: Another unserialize() abuse
With yet another reason not to trust the users of your application (mainly the data they send you), Ilia Alshanetsky has details on an issue that could be caused by the unserialize() function in PHP.
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Stories for 03/24/2006

SitePoint PHP Blog: Evaluating PHP Applications
People like simple solutions - they like to go out, find a piece of software that does what they want, and push it out into the wild of the internet on their site. More often than not, unfortunately, they don't take the proper time to really look over the application. They breeze right past that state and install it without a care in the world. Too bad this can lead to bigger issues down the line.
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PHPBuilder.com: Using XML - A PHP Developer's Primer (Part 3)
For those of you that have been following along, PHPBuilder.com has posted the third and final part of their "Using XML: A PHP Developer's Primer" series. Even if you haven't been keeping up, it's worth a look.
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Kore Nordmann's Blog: Driver SVG_Control & subdivision surfaces
Kore Nordmann has been making great strides on his Image_3D PEAR package and now, with some help from his brother, the package can display the images created as SVG images in a browser. Additionally, this post mentions the inclusion of "subdivision surfaces" to smooth images rendered.
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Stories for 03/27/2006

Christian Stocker's Blog: Calling PHP function from XSLT vs. native XSLT functions benchmark
One of the more underused thechnologies to come along these days is XSLT - that powerful langauge to style XML documents in a simple, "more correct" kind of way (seperation of data and layout). Most languages have support for this combination, including PHP - but what's the best way to combine PHP and XSLT? Christian Stocker took a look in this new post on the Bitflux blog.
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