phpWebSite 0.9.3-4 Stable released
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Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. All client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Version 0.9.3-4 contains mostly bug fixes which were found in the 0.9.3-3 release, but there are some new features/enhancements.   Form Generator + ability to send emails as text/plain instead of text/html + ability to view, delete exports and archives  Notes + send notes to groups of users or to all users on the site  Control Panel + modules now list by label in alphabetical order  Other: + improved output all around for XML/XHTML compliance + spell checker added to the wysiwyg for those with the pspell extentsion loaded + files written to the system in most modules have better permissions set for easier access  Enjoy!
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:convertSimple navigationPHP TablesXML ClassSitemap creator for Google, Yahoo and MSNPHPBiDiSimplePaginatorSortable ElementsSnPayPalApiMBTemplate ClassHTTP ServerXCS Parser
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Latest PEAR Releases:Log 1.9.10Net_LDAP 0.7.0PHP_Archive 0.10.0DB_Table 1.5.0RC1Math_BigInteger 1.0.0RC3DB 1.7.9pearweb 1.2.4PHP_Beautifier 0.1.12pearweb 1.2.5pearweb 1.3.0pearweb_phars 1.0.0pearweb_phars 0.1.0PHP_CompatInfo 1.4.1
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Hannes Magnusson has posted about more updates that are being made to the PHP.net website today, including an upgrade to the "conference teaser" patch and the introduction of a new box to like directly to the latest releases on the front page.    Since I moved the 'current releases' info into "a giant" includable array, living in include/version.inc, we can now provide a simple XML feed (or whatever) for you to parse to get the latest release info simpler and more accurately...   What do you think? Is it worth it? What kind of format would you want it in?    He wants your feedback on this last point - would having an XML feed for just the version info be that useful? Or would it just be yet another RSS feed to add to the list to keep up with the new PHP releases?
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This week's edition of PHP Magazine's PHPBarnstormer has been released - Issue #22.
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Michael Kimsal has posted a formal prediction that a patch, created by someone in the community, will emerge making it simple to bridge the gap between PHP4 and PHP5 applications.   Given the high number of shared hosts still running PHP4, the backwards compatibility issues going from 4->5 (yes, there are some!) and the new PHP4 "end of life" date (8/8/8), someone will likely find a way to make these run together, and possibly even charge money for it.   He suggests that many hosts out there would happily pay a sum to get this kind of functionally for their customers. It would provide a solution to customers who just don't understand the force towards PHP5 and would make them (and their PHP4 applications) happier.
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:NodeezMySQLList content of directoryPablosky MySQLRImageManipulatorMySQL PaginationHTTP LocaleMySQL DB Class with  Data Manipulation Class TimeTaMeREasy PHP ValidationFiltreatmentImage to ASCII textKDoubleMetaphoneGeo Conversion
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Class TreeviewPHP User ClassDHTMLDumpSalatCSV Parse and ReadRSAsmb4phpClient infoTrue Singleton ClassRounded Border Table Generator
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Nested Nodes ClassFF-MVCPage indexerHTMLFormHyena Template EngineYourCalendarSQL fast queryPage Navigator 2Aboyon File ManagementMafia SessionItalian StemmerMySQL AbstractorNodeezMySQL
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:XmlArraygoogleSiteMapMultiAjaxXMLTreeXMLPHPLoggerImage Uploaderpop3-streamUserAction
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The latest version of the PHP language (in the PHP 5 series) has been released today - PHP 5.2.1:   The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.1.  This release is a major stability and security enhancement of the 5.X branch, and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement 5.2.1, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog PHP 5.   Among the security enhancements and bug fixes in this new release are:  Prevent search engines from indexing the phpinfo() page. Fixed possible overflows and stack corruptions in the session extension. Fixed possible clobbering of super-globals in several code paths. Fixed a possible buffer overflow inside mail() and ibase_{delete,add,modify}_user() functions. and much more...  Head over and download your copy today!   Ilia Alshanetsky (release manager for the PHP 5 series) also has posted some comments about the release to his blog.
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The International PHP Magazine has posted results from their latest poll conducted over this past week asking which, of their given options, is the best helpful hint for creating a web application in PHP.   Two of the options ranked higher than the rest with one (Page/object caching) coming out on top of the other (Don't save performance testing for the end of the project). The remainder of the votes were divided pretty evenly between the last three options: "Use multi result set queries to your database", "gzip compression", and "Tune your web server".   While you're in the polling mood, you should check out this week's new poll that wonders which of their options might be the biggest hindrance to PHP5's adoption in the community.
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:aFilesSmiley GeneratorlangMerge PicturesKeyword SuggestFuseBox ManagerSite Guide
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Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:onPHP5.com: Clickable, Obfuscated Email AddressesJacob Santos' Blog: PHP BlackjackThe Bakery: RESTful Web Services With CakePHPDeveloper.com: Developing a Ajax-driven Shopping Cart with PHP and PrototypeGreg Beaver's Blog: Mac OS X ships with security hole-laden PEAR - how to upgrade immediatelyNexen.net: English Articles and a Single Distribution ResourceJob Posting: Red Ventures Seeks Several LAMP Developers (Charlotte, NC)The Bakery: Checking for duplicate records (unique record)DevShed: The Basics of Abstract Factory Classes in PHP 5NewsForge.com: A DIY calendar control in PHPDevGuide.net: Dynamic Bitmap Graphics with PHP and GDRichard Heyes' Blog: Browser DetectionInternational PHP Magazine: Poll Question: Which is the Most Important Feature of PHP 5?Builder.au: Dynamic XML document construction with the PHP DOMCommunity News: PEAR Version 1.5.0 Released
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Jim Plush has posted an offifical release announcement about his latest contribution to the PHP community - a debugging tool combining PHP (through the myBIC framework) and the Firefox FireBug extension.   I put together a couple pieces of technology to give the PHP community a debugger/profiler that should make life easier in the "web2.0" world. Are you tired of echo'ing print statements in your ajax calls? Writing to log files? Firing up big ol debuggers just to see what the value of some array is? Well look no further than the new MyBic PHP Debugger.   The tool is a smaller part of his larger MyBIC framework and can do things like writing log files, echo information back out to the screen, and communicate information back out to the Firefox user. There is a standalone version of FireBug that will be posted for those that don't want to have to install an entire framework to use it.   Keep an eye out (here and on his blog) for the links to the release when it's posted. In the meantime, you can check out a screencast [mov] of the package in action or just the screenshots in the blog entry.
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Latest PEAR Releases:PHP_CodeSniffer 0.0.5PEAR_PackageUpdate_Gtk2 0.3.2PEAR_PackageUpdate 0.5.2HTML_QuickForm_DHTMLRulesTableless 0.1.3HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_Tableless 0.3.4PHP_CodeSniffer 0.1.0Auth 1.4.0RC3HTML_QuickForm_Livesearch 0.3.2PHP_CodeSniffer 0.1.1Net_UserAgent_Mobile 0.28.0
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The Hiveminds Magazine has pointed out a new effort that's been kicked off today to try to get the PHP community (and providers) to finally make the leap and drop PHP4 support all together:   The idea is to make a unified, concentrated effort to drop PHP4 support and drive PHP5 adoption in the year 2008. Think of it. All CMS, forum and framework projects going completely over to PHP5 on a set date! This would be like a bomb dropping on the web hosting world and cause ripples throughout the open source world.   They point out some of the projects that are leaning either way from ezPublish hanging on to PHP4 and apps like Drupal that have embraced PHP5. In fact, it's the Drupal group that's written up the proposal on how it would all go down - the "Go PHP5 Effort".   It is a dangerous cycle, and one that needs to be broken. The open source PHP developer community has decided that it is indeed now time to move forward, together. Therefore, the listed open source PHP projects have all agreed that effective 5 February 2008, any new feature release will have a minimum  required PHP version no older than PHP 5.2.0.   There's tons of comments to the proposal in both parties (and some in between noting that there are already several PHP4 applications that run quite happily on PHP5).