PHPied.com: phpDoc clip library for TextPad
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On PHPied.com, there's a handy little tool for users of TextPad out there - a plugin to make writing phpDoc comments in your code a bit easier.   Here's a little something I did to make it a bit easier to write API docs in TextPad, it's a clip library to save some typing when writing comments in the phpDoc format. I submitted it to the TextPad team, so at some point it will probably appear in the downloads section, but meanwhile you can get from here.   There's a direct download of the plugin as well as some screenshots of it in action.
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On the PHPKitchen site today, Demian Turner looks at a handy utility to ensure that the coding standards in your documents are all passable - PHP_CodeSniffer.    There was a fantastic CS helper package released at PEAR this week, PHP_CodeSniffer. The package, which requires PHP5 and is nicely coded, puts a phpcs script in your path so you can pass files or directories to it to get your CS validated.   The results are detailed and processing is surprisingly fast considering how many tokens are being parsed.    Demian gives an example of what the validation process looks like and why he finds the entire package particularly useful.
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:DAOSQL2CSVGD2 ClassCBenchmarkdeckThe ZipavRIFEdit BitmapPHP DirectAdminbm_chartLinkedin public profile plugin for SerendipityArc LengthPHP IOCDataGridAnother CAPTCHA projectNewsBox
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:DeveloperTutorials.com: AJAX and PHP Form ProcessingPHPRiot.com: Monitoring File Uploads using Ajax and PHPCommunity News: Has Smarty's Time Come?Deasil.com: Lessons to be learned from PHPIan Bicking's Blog: What PHP Deployment Gets RightDaniel Crook's Blog: Mashups from IBM at NYPHP in JanuaryMike Naberezny's Blog:  Horde/Yaml 1.0 ReleasedMikko Koppanen's Blog: Padding thumbnail with colorRichard Lord's Blog: If you want to create AVM2 swfs from PHPZend Developer Zone: PHP Abstract Episode 31: Book Review - Sitepoint's PHP Anthology, 2nd Ed.
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PHP-Editors has some new information today about a series of free publications that you could recieve if you are one of "those who qualify".
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The International PHP Magazine has posted the results of this past week's visitor poll asking "Which Feature Is Not Suitable for phpDocumentor?"   Of the choices, the "None" option got the most votes (33.3% in fact) followed at a large margin by "Fully customizable output with Smarty-based templates" and "Generates a todo list from @todo tags in source". The users have spoken and they think phpDocumentor is flexible enough to handle everything from outputting in HTML/PDF formats to having a web and command-line interface.   This week's poll question asks about something a little more common - which of the items in the list are your favorite PHP game (and yes, there's "All" and "None" options). Check it out and cast your vote today!
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:PHPBuilder.com: AJAX and PHP Part 2 - XML Communication/ProcessingCommunity News: Zend Framework 1.0.0 ReleasedMike Potter's Blog: Slides for today's e-seminar on Flex and PHPBlogSecurity.net: Interview with Stefan Esser on WordPressCommunity News: India's First PHP UnconferencePro::PHP Podcast: Newscast for 2007.06.28JSLabs Blog:  How to create Microsoft Office Documents with PHPPEAR Blog: Request for ideas: New developer FAQPHP-Coding-Practices.com: Composing Methods: Split Temporary VariableRob Allen's Blog: Spanish versions too!
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Newly posted over on PHP Magazine's website is this week's latest PHPBarnstormer - Issue #11
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In a quick note from Dynamically Typed, there's a mention of the online publication of Paul Hudson's book Practical PHP Programming.
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An introduction to XML and DocBook: what is it and why should I learn yet another data format?
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:Reinhold Weber's Blog: 40 signs you really are a lousy PHP programmerScott Klarr's Blog: PHP Cheat SheetsDeveloperTutorials.com: Building Desktop Applications in PHPPadraic Brady's Blog: The Zend Framework and Microformats: Zend_Microformat ProposedCommunity News: GoPHP5 Project Wraps UpJob Posting: Technology Resources, Inc Seeks Senior PHP Developer (New York, NY)Job Posting: Red Ventures Seeks Sr. Systems Analyst/Web Developer (Charlotte, NC)Community News: Forage - A Search Abstraction LayerCommunity News: php|architect Launches C7Y Site (News/Podcast/Forums)Richard Heyes' Blog: SMTP for PHP 5
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In this new post to his blog, Tobias Schlitt shares some VIM tips with the PHP community, specifically about PHP Documentor integration functionality. He's gone back and documented the functionality now to make it that much easier to use.   Because I had a talk about how to use VIM in respect to PHP source code editing, I took the time during the week, to write some extensive documentation for PDV, the PHP Documentor plugin for VIM.   He's also documented the VIM file type plugin as well, and both are available through his SVN of PDV. There's also to updates mentioned - one about splitting up the .vimrc and file type plugin and added the repository to the official SVNServe list making it easy to check out.
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On the PHPClasses.org website there's a new entry covering, among other things, one handy feature PHP includes to let developers read and write their data more flexibly - streams.   This article explains what are stream handlers and how they simplify PHP developers lives by allowing PHP applications to easily read and write data from containers, like remote Web pages or e-mail messages, as if they were files. [...] The article also presents more examples of cool stream handlers classes submitted to the PHPClasses site by several authors.   He describes the abstraction that the streams interface allows, how they can make your life easier, a real-life example of streams in action (working with POP3) and some of the classes that have been contributed to PHPClasses.org that use them.
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Gerd Schauffelberger writes on the PHP-Tools Blog today about the contents of the latest issue from the German PHP Magazine, specifically an article covering the PEAR package HTML_AJAX.   This article's target is (1st) to give a brief introduction to AJAX and how things work from Javascript an PHP side in contrary. Also (2nd) I wanted to show that you actually don't have to muck around with a mess of Javascript (browser compatibility issues and such) because it's it is all done by the Joshua Eichorn's HTML_AJAX framework.    The article doesn't build up an entire application (as Gerd mentions) but it does provide you a good base to work from and gives you a good direction to head from to learn more about this powerful package.
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In a new post to her blog today, Ligaya Turmelle mentions a conversation she was having with some of the PHP documentation team about their transitions and the possibilities for integrating something new into the system - creating phpt tests automatically.   Seems Philip and colder were talking on the IRC about possibly using the php doc examples to automatically generate some phpt tests to make sure the examples in the docs worked correctly. I personally think it is a great idea for another reason - it would give the QA team a base listing of phpt tests for the various PHP functions. With that base listing it would be easier to modify/add to the various phpt tests to cover the boundries of the function.   A script to implement this feature is already in the works - a preview of it can even be found here.
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On his blog, Stuart Herbert has a quick tip showing how to mimic a feature of Ruby on Rails:   I'm still working on the next article in my series looking at PHP on servers, so in the mean time, check out this simple way to emulate Ruby's nice way of handling separate getter, setter and state query methods in PHP.   He admits his example isn't as elegant as the Ruby method, but it does get the job done. Code for the method is included in his post ready for cut and pasting.