Zend Developer Zone: PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 8: CodeIgnighter Overview
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The Zend Developer Zone has released the latest episode of their PHP Abstract podcast - Episode 8, a look at the CodeIgniter framework as hosted by Ed Finkler.   Our special guest today is Ed Finkler. Ed is a web application developer, security expert, graphic designer, and dabbling musician. He works for CERIAS at Purdue University, and is a member of the PHP Security Consortium. Today Ed is going to give us the lowdown on the PHP based framework, CodeIgniter.   You can download this episode directly here or just subscribe to the podcast feed to get all of the past and future episodes of these quick doses of PHP wisdom.
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Cal Evans has posted his notes from the (just passed) Web Builder 2.0 Conference that happened over in Las Vegas. PHP had its presence there through Cal's "PHP Powers Mashups" talk and others like Chris Shiflett.   There was plenty to see and do at the conference besides PHP and Cal highlights just a few:  AJAX Optimization talks  An overview of some Flickr Stats Google's mashup offerings An introduction to  and some talk of benchmarking Ajax  Check out the full post though - it's jam-packed with links and some great event information.
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In this new post to the Zend Developer Zone, Cal Evans talks about his meetup with Danny Kolke and Ahmad Baitalmal of Etelos where they recorded a great PHP-related conversation.   On the podcast we talked about Zend, PHP5 and Etelosâ EASE programming language. For those of you not familiar with Etelos, here is a quick blurb from their web site.   Cal gave his impression of what Etelos is creating and an opinion on the quality, stating that Etelos/EASE looks phenomenal. Especially of note is Cal's comments about not needing a computer science degree to get a website up and running with a database backend.
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Scott Mattocks, like so many others, has just reciently recieved notification that he's been accepted as a speaker for the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo this fall. He talks more about his speech in his latest post.   My session, "Consusming Web Services with PHP-GTK 2&#8243; will be a look at how to turn a web services API into a desktop application. I only have fifty minutes so it won't be very heavy on implementation details. Instead it will look more at representing different data structures, collecting different types of data and how creating a desktop application can make life easier for the company and the end user.   Scott joins other speakers for this great event, including speakers like Ilia Alshanetsky, Wez Furlong, and Zeev Suraski. Be sure to check back on the Zend site soon to see when Scott and others' talks will be held.
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In this post on the Zend Developer Zone, Cal Evans takes a look at an article published in a recent php|architect issue from Chris Hartjes about how several recent advancements in the PHP community have helped developers think more in "the Rails way" of development.   Chris does a good job of laying out his points. As with any article of this nature, you are going to agree with some of them and you'll disagree with some of them. However, to get to that point you'll have to consider all of them. That's really the point of the article; making developer sit back and think for a minute. It's well worth the read.   Cal also mentions some of the topics presented in the article including more conceptual ideas like "Convention Over Configuration" and "Rapid Should Mean Rapid".
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:IBM developerWorks: PHP frameworks, Part 1: Getting started with three popular frameworksWeb Development Blog: Tutorial: FTP Upload via cURLJoey's Blog: 8 Practical PHP Regular ExpressionsJeff Moore's Blog: Keywords and Language SimplicityAlessandro Crugnola's Blog: AMFPHP and mbstringTravis Swicegood's Blog: Why Inheritance SucksStefan Mischook's Blog: Creating Custom PHP Functions Video Tutorial - Part 3Johannes SchlÃ¼ter's Blog: PHP 5.3 UpdateInternet Super Hero Blog: mysqlnd to support PDO, mysqlnd in PHP 5.3Jacob Santos' Blog: Object Oriented Programming Isn't Easy
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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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On the Zend Developer Zone today, Cal Evans has posted his look at the Phrasebook series from Sams Publishing covering Javascript, MySQL, Apache, and, of course, PHP.   I get a lot of books to review. Currently the stack is about waist high and UPS hasn't been here this morning. So in an effort to trim down that stack of books, I'm going to talk about books 4 in one review.   He looks briefly at the contents for each of the books, pointing out specific areas they seemed particularly helpful in. He doesn't recommend them to someone trying to learn the language right off the mark. These are, as their title implies, just clips and handy snippets of information to help you get to where you're going. You have to know how to get on the road first, though...
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Michael Kimsal mentions the posting of his latest show for his podcast - WebDevRadio, episode #34:   [This show contains a] quick overview of upcoming interviews, and mentions of the projectzero webdev project from IBM, Sheeri KritzerÃ¢ÂÂs OurSQL podcast, my upcoming SOLR presentation @ OSCON, and a bit more.   Also included in this show is a look at a PHP4->PHP5 XML wrapper that looks to take care of some of the transition of XML functionality when making the move between PHP4 and PHP5.   You can grab this latest show here or subscribe to the feed and get more shows, both past and future.
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:FCHouse.com: Debugging PHP5 with Eclipse PDT under OSX: a piece of cake!Tutorial: An Introduction to PHPIDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System)Developer.com: Build Multi-lingual Websites With the Zend FrameworkPro::PHP Podcast: Newscast for June 14th, 2007Community News: VS.PHP v2.3 for Visual Studio ReleasedJob Posting: S&ME, Inc. Seeks Web Developer (Charlotte, NC)Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 06.15.2007Nexen.net: Ext/elephpant : the furry PHP mascotJob Posting: Coolpink Seeks a PHP Developer (Leeds, Yorkshire, UK)Job Posting: BravoTECH Seeks a PHP Developer (Dallas, TX)
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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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Matthew O'Phinney has posted the slides from a New York PHP User Group meeting that Mark de Visser (of Zend) and he spoke at:   Mark presented information on Zend's development stack and toolset (which I entirely missed, as I was still in transit), and I came in to give an overview of Zend Framework.   Matthew posted the slides right to his blog. They're in a browser-based slideshow system that will launch wen you double-click on the index file.
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As part of their presentation, Luke and Laura recorded a video podcast for Informit covering the current state of PHP. It was shown at this year's , but if you didn't get a chance to see it (or make it to the conference), Laura's posted both parts for your downloading pleasure.    This is part of Informit's podcast series On Open Source: Part 1, Part 2.   I rant about frameworks, Luke talks about PHP security, and we offer advice for young programmers.  I hope you enjoy it, it was fun to record.    For more open source related podcasts, check out the Informit page for topics like software freedom, Microsoft, monetization and SourceForge.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest edition of their podcast - PHP Abstract. In this episode Yossi Leno looks at using the Zend Toolbars to work in your applications.   Our special guest for this episode of the PHP Abstract podcast is Yossi is the product manager for the development tools group at Zend. He is going to talk to us today about using the Zend Browser Toolbars for Debugging and Profiling your applications.   There's two ways to get the new show - download it directly or subscribe to their feed and get the latest ones hand delivered. They've also started a new program to help bring in more community input into the podcast (oh, and they pay too - $75) for making your contribution.
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The Zend Developer Zone has launched a new feature for their PHP Abstract podcasts to help make giving feedback on the episodes even simpler (especially on mobile devices) - a TwitterBridge.   We know many people listen to PHP Abstract on their cell phones or mobile music device. Many of you aren't near a computer when you listen. Even so, we want to hear from you about the episodes. So we've installed our handy new TwitterBridge. Now, all you need to leave a comment about an episode of PHP Abstract is a twitter account.   You'll need a Twitter account (obviously) and then set it up to follow phpa, then any comments that are sent starting with "@phpa" will be grabbed and pushed into the comment system automatically.
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P&aacute;draic Brady continues his series on working with Complex Views in the Zend Framework with this new article - part seven focusing on the Zend_View Enhanced method.   It's been a long, and hopefully interesting, road to Part 7. In this concluding entry to the long running, and oft delayed, "Complex Views with the Zend Framework" series I introduce the Zend_View Enhanced Proposal for the Zend Framework, elaborate on its operation, and provide some opinions on the ongoing debate over its implementation.    In this final entry of the series, he recaps previous concepts (like Partials/Layouts/Controllers/Placeholders) and how far reaching the Zend_View Enhanced component is. He also includes some of the helpers and interfaces he's proposed for the module including:   Zend_View_Helper_Partial Zend_View_Helper_Controller Zend_View_Helper_HeadScript Zend_View_Helper_Doctype Zend_View_Helper_HeadStyle   He takes each of the concepts mentioned above and applies these different helpers/interfaces inside them, illustrating with some sample code as needed.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest podcast in the PHP Abstract series. This time, it's a focus on planning in your programming projects - how to get the most structure out of the simplest planning.   Davey [Shafik] is going to talk to us about one of the most neglected areas of software development, planning the project.   Grab the podcast directly here or subscribe to the feed to get this and other episodes of this quality podcast.