PHPDeveloper.orgUp-to-the Minute PHP News, views and communityMarco Tabini's Blog: The violin-playing software designer- August 19, 2008 In this new post to his blog Marco Tabini eloquently explains something that less and less seem to be able to understand - the tool is only a means to an end. It's more about the artist and the end result than the tool. What is beautiful code Ask ten people, and you will probably get ten different answers. Ask them what makes a programming language beautiful, and you've got yourself the beginnings of a holy war. He compares code to art - the language is just a tool, the canvas an...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10857 Felix De Vliegher's Blog: Static analysis for PHP- August 19, 2008 On his blog recently Felix De Vliegher has posted about work he's done to gather some stats and great some data about how his PHP scripts are working based on a little statistical analysis. Lately I've been interested in applying static analysis to PHP projects. Static analysis is the process of analysing software code - in our case PHP source code -, without actually executing the (compiled) result of the source code you're analysing. He mentions some types of analysis and some of..http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10856 Evert Pot's Blog: Integrating with Zend's OpenID- August 19, 2008 In a new blog post today Evert Pot shares some of his thoughts on integrating the Zend implementation of the OpenID protocol, Zend_OpenId, into his application. The Zend Framework has a pretty good OpenID library. I was looking for a library written for PHP5 (strict), and this seemed like a good choice... He mentions some of both sides of the argument - (the good) the flexibility of the library to work with different backend storage methods and (the bad) the requirements it has for..http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10855 Zend Developer Zone: Create your own widget with PHP-GTK- August 19, 2008 A new tutorial on the Zend Developer Zone shows you how to use PHP's "younger cousin" PHP-GTK to make a simple widget. With PHP's younger cousin PHP-GTK's recent step to maturity with the 2.0 stable release it is a good time to give this project some more attention. In this article I will show you how to create a re-usable IPv4 Entry widget using PHP-GTK's excellent OO structure. The end result is an interface that lets the user input an IP in a familiar way (blocks of three,...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10854 Debuggable Blog: More workers needed in the kitchen- August 19, 2008 On the Debuggable blog Felix Geisendorfer points out the need for some more "cooks in the kitchen" - people to fill some CakePHP related positions in companies all over. There are new jobs in the world of CakePHP. The CakePHP job board has seen the following additions. The new items include positions at About.com, Makatto.com and Blue Chips. Check out the job board for more information on these and other open CakePHP-related positions.http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10853 Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 08.19.2008- August 19, 2008 Latest PECL Releases: ibm_db2 1.7.0 PDO_IBM 1.2.5 PDO_INFORMIX 1.2.5 bbcode 1.0.1 bbcode 1.0.2http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10858 Stefan Mischook's Blog: Killerphp Videos Now Available for Download- August 19, 2008 Stefan Mischook notes today that the videos he offers, including several on PHP can now be purchased as a set from his site. I've had many request for access to the videos either on a DVD or in a downloadable format for viewing offline. So after many months of brushing it off, I now have the videos for you. The download version will cost you about $20 USD and the DVD is around $30 USD. Of course, you're still free to watch them online as many times as you'd like.http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10852 Suspekt Blog: mt_srand and not so random numbers- August 18, 2008 Stefan Esser points out a problem with the mt_rand and rand methods in PHP that makes them not quite random enough for cryptographic uses. PHP comes with two random number generators named rand() and mt_rand(). The first is just a wrapper around the libc rand() function and the second one is an implementation of the Mersenne Twister pseudo random number generator. Both of these algorithms are seeded by a single 32 bit dword when they are first used in a process or one of the seeding...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10851 Max Horvath's Blog: How to enable the Xdebug debugger in Zend Studio for Eclipse- August 18, 2008 Max Horvath recently posted a how-to on getting the XDebug debugging support up and working in the Zend Studio for Eclipse software. Zend Studio for Eclipse is a commercial edition of Eclipse plus the PDT plugin and various other additions. Unfortunately Zend decided to disable the Xdebug support of the Eclipse PDT plugin. Nonetheless if you'd like to use Xdebug for debugging your PHP scripts, follow these simple steps to restore the Xdebug functionality of Eclipse. Its a simple...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10850 PHPImpact Blog: No need for setget methods in Python- August 18, 2008 Federico compares two languages in this new post to the PHP::Impact blog today - PHP and Python - in their need for "getters" and "setters". Python code doesn't typically use the get and set methods so common in PHP. Normally, when writing PHP code, you carefully protect your instance variables by making them private, so callers can only interact with them via getter and setter methods. ... Python's solution to this problem is more readable, it has a construct called a...http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10849 |