Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 09.06.2006
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Latest PECL Releases:ibm_db2 1.5.0ocal 0.1.0wbxml 0.1.0filter 0.10.0APC 3.0.12APC 3.0.12p2APC 3.0.12p1
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Latest PECL Releases:timezonedb 2007.3ingres 1.4.3pdflib 2.1.3
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:RefreshinglyBlue Blog: PHP vs Ruby - Practical Language DifferencesAndreas Gohr's Blog: Determine StumbleUpon RankingsPHP.net: PHP 5.2.4 ReleasedThe Bakery: Five New Posts - Custom Views, CSS, ViewInFile, ActsAs and Email ValidationPHPBuilder.com: File uploads made easyStefan Mischook's Blog: Turning on display_errors in WAMP - Video Tutorialphp|architect: Pro::PHP Podcast - Newscast for August 2007MT-Soft Blog: Creating a secure PHP production environment from Source CodeCommunity News: Andi Gutmans to Present at AjaxWorld 2007HowTo Forge: How To Set Up A Facebook RSS Feed Reader
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Scott Mattocks is back with the latest installment of the PHP-GTK news, issue number 22.   It's been a while, but I finally have some time to get back to summing up the world of PHP-GTK. Things have slowed down a little in the past few months on the development side but that doesn't mean that the world of PHP-GTK 2 has stood still.   In this edition, there's a call for help for anyone that would want to join the other (4!) developers in working on the PHP-GTK 2 project as well as some general information about the project and its involvement in the community - from talks at php/db|works, International PHP Conference, and the Zend/PHP Conference to the many PHP-GTK-related articles being printed to a new online resource for PHP-GTK tutorials.
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Pierre-Alain Joye ha posted some great news about the Zip PECL package today on his blog - it's finally reached stable.   Zip is stable since two releases. I lacked the time to report it :) Three bugs were important. Once PHP 5.2.0 is out, I will focus on the new features. Write stream support, unicode (php6+ support), pattern based addition/extraction and crypting functions.   The three bugs he mentions were a problem with zipArchive::addFile, comment/cdir problems with new archives, and setting properties in extended classes.   You can check out the homepage for the project here or just view the Changelog for complete updates.
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Latest PECL Releases:timezonedb 2006.16htscanner 0.5.0zip 1.8.2pecl_http 1.4.0RC1uploadprogress 0.3.0
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Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists. The perl6-compiler list discusses grammar bootstrapping, the Parrot people debate namespaces again, and the Perl 6 Language list ponders the freshly updated Synopsis 5.
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Latest PEAR Releases:pearweb 1.5.1Net_UserAgent_Mobile 0.30.0MDB2_Schema 0.7.1pearweb 1.6.1pearweb 1.6.0pearweb 1.6.2Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Flexy 0.1.1pearweb 1.6.3pearweb 1.7.0Net_MPD 1.0.1Net_LDAP 0.7.1Services_Technorati 2.0.0alpha1Math_Derivative 1.0.0RC1pearweb 1.8.0Structures_LinkedList 0.1.3File_MARC 0.1.2Net_MAC 0.1.2Net_CDDB 0.3.0
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The eagerly-awaited Ubuntu Studio has been released, adding another entry into the expanding list of multimedia-optimized Linux distributions. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but interested readers can peruse some installation screenshots or check out the latest news and information on the Ubuntu Studio Wiki. I plan to review the distro in a future column, along with an update on the latest version of the venerable PlanetCCRMA, but in this entry I'm focused on another very exciting new release. Ardour 2.0 is now available for download. This version is a significant improvement over the 0.99 series (1.0 was never released), with many new features and enhancements to performance and stability. The following article profiles the new Ardour as I employed it for three projects, all involving the program in the processes of composition and arranging as well as the more typical tasks of recording and editing. I've described each project in some detail, and each description includes a link to the final audio output.
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According to this note from Christian Stocker on the BitFlux blog, the upload progress meter (using the new file upload hooks introduced in recent PHP versions) has finally been included, officially, into PECL.   After some tweaking, code improvements and remote code execution vulnerability fixes, I finally put the uploadprogress extension into PECL.   Windows users might be out of luck for a while though, since Christian's not pursuing binaries for the package. However, the source is there, and anyone is more than welcome to try...
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Latest PECL Releases:mailparse 2.1.3memcache 2.2.2ocal 1.0.0perforce 1.0.0RCimagick 2.1.0RC3SPL_Types 0.3.0
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In a new post on her blog today, Elizabeth Smith talks about her "PECL Windows nut project" of wanting to get every single PECL extension she can get her hands on to compile under Windows.   Now there will be some that are just frankly impossible (but there are some extensions that are impossible on *nix as well - you're not going to see me messing with xmms) What does this mean? Playing with lots of open source libraries, fixing simple errors, creating config.w32 files for extensions. Basically just looking at what is broken and fixing it.   She's already started on the project, fixing several of the base extensions and moving on to try to correct one to five extensions a day. These changes are getting committed into CVS so anyone can get at them and try them out for themselves. She's also trying to get them over into the PECL4WIN packages to make things more "official".
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Pierre-Alain Joye has two new updates concerning his PECL packages today, one for htscanner and the other for a bug in the zip package.   Yet another PECL release, htscanner 0.6.2 is out. This release fixes a annoying but minor bug in the shutdown function. A new error message has been added when no translated path has been found.   And, for the zip package:   Thanks to Ron Korving and Ilia Alshanetsky, a couple of thread unsafety issues have been caught in php codes, a complete list of Ron's review can be read in his original post. The fixes have been commited already, 5.2.1 will contain them.   The you can grab this latest update from the zip package's homepage over on the PECL website.
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roundup Plus: Open-source rival to Exchange released...Verizon sets up home in Circuit City...3i's Gagen resigns...Unify updates Java tool.
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Latest PEAR Releases:Net_LDAP 1.1.0a2pearweb_gopear 1.0.3HTML_TagCloud 0.1.3Console_GetoptPlus 1.0.0RC1Crypt_GPG 0.4.0LiveUser 0.16.13
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Pierre-Alain Joye has posted about the latest update to his Zip PECL package today:   This release fixes two small issues, a leak happening on error and a bug in extractTo. Empty directories were not created recursively, for example an entry like "test/emptydir", only the "test" directory was created.   This latest download is here and the homepage for the project is over on this PECL page (as well as details on what the package can do and documentation of all of its features).
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Mike Wallner has thrown together some stats for the latest edition of the pecl/http package to test its response performance.   The results surprised me, because it clearly shows that the performance drop for starting the PHP engine and doing the neccessary negotiation to provide caching is not that bad.   There's a chart of the results as well as a full PDF with all of the stats the graph maps out. He includes the legend to make the graph easier to understand.