- added MDB2_AUTOQUERY_SELECT (Request #7817) - added nested transaction support (inspired
by ADODB's smart transactions) but expanded to optionally use SAVEPOINTs *EXPERIMENTAL*
beginNestedTransaction(), completeNestedTransaction(), failNestedTransaction(),
getNestedTransactionError() - inTransaction() will now return an integer with the nested
transaction depth if a nested transaction has been started - added
setTransactionIsolation() - added savepoint support to beginTransacti...

Over on Brainbench.com, there's a new free certification they're offering for those out
there looking to flex their PHP5 skills. Our PHP 5 test measures your knowledge of
scripting in PHP Hypertext Preprocessor 5. Designed for experienced programmers, this test
covers the following topics: Communication Functions, Databases, General Functions, HTML,
Language Functions, Language Structure, Object Oriented PHP. The test covers topics
such as the communications functions, langua...

On php|architect's A/R/T article repository today, there's this new tutorial centered
around the use of the "magic" method __set_state in PHP5. It is fairly self-evident
how to use most of the magic methods of PHP 5. However, it is not quite so apparent how to
use the __set_state method introduced in PHP 5.1. In this article, Peter lavin delves into
this elusive magic method to show you how to use this gem in some really 'classy' object
oriented PHP. The author (Peter Lavin) ...

As is mentioned in this new post from Tobias Schlitt, the eZ systems folks are working
toward something called "eZ platform". They've even poublished an article about it to map
out their plans. This article presents an overview of the architecture and
development process of the eZ platform, the PHP application platform by eZ systems. The eZ
platform will be an Enterprise Open Source software suite based on PHP 6, consisting of a
flexible group of expandable building blocks that ...

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If you're caught using PHP4 on Windows and have been seeing some issues with the older
MySQL libraries you've been using lately, it might be time to upgrade. "But I can't move
away from PHP4," you say. No worries - this new post from Edin Kadribaaic should have the
answer you're looking for. Since the main PHP 4 distribution cannot be updated with
the latest MySQL libs for various reasons, I will provide downloads of the latest PHP 4
with the latest MySQL libs. His archive co...

New to the A/R/T article repository from php|architect today is this look at the "Top
Five PHP Mistakes" from Marco Tabini. These topics have been beaten to death, and
will likely continue to be beaten well after their bones have turned to dust. However, I
have never had the opportunity to explore some aspects of PHP that obviously are
mistakes-not just to understand their origin, but to analyze their impact on PHP and the
way they have been dealt with. His list of mistakes i...

In this post from Jason Norwood-Young, he shares his opinions on the lifespan of PHP -
that maybe, just maybe, PHP has passed its prime. A friend recently told me that
PHP is on its way out, Ruby on Rails is where it's at. I scoffed. I chuckled. Then I gave
it some thought. Could PHP have had its day? [After my research] I have to conclude
that my friend might be right in one respect – PHP has had its day. If the trend
continues, it means that PHP will one day not be the ho...

A new bit of news is shared in this new article frm News.com (imagine that) about the
push Zend is making to have version 1.0 of their framework ready to go for their
conference in October. Andi Gutmans is quoted as saying that the target is 1.0 for
the conference, but, at the least, there will be a 1.0 release candidate. With the Zend
Framwork growing all the time, it's easy to see how they could make this goal (especially
with some of the new leadership at the helm spurring on r...

The fine folks over at ThinkPHP have released their scanning tool, Chorizo!, to the
general public - including the ability to sign up for a free account. We think it's
time to commoditize PHP web application security. You may have heard of Chorizo!.
With this free account, it's possible to use the Chorizo! application service as a
proxy and scan 1 host. All scan datas are encrypted, your data is only visible to you.
There are also some valuable help documents available tha...

According to this post on the SDA Asia site today, Andi Gutmans is quoted as saying that
Yahoo is doing their share in helping PHP6 come along that much faster. Yahoo is
Helping Zend with PHP 6, says Andi Gutmans co-founder and vice president of technology at
Israeli-based company Zend Technologies, in an interview with Stephen Shankland of c|net
news. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited
for Web development and can be embedded into HTM...

ASP.NET 2.0 came out with tons of new controls which helps the developer to speed
development. Among all the new controls TreeView control stands out as one of the most
important and useful control. TreeView control enables you to display the data in
hierarchical form. TreeView control also allows you to embed different ASP.NET controls
within it. In this article we will see that how we can populate a TreeView control from
the database.

Advances in technology have revolutionized the way people live, but the digital divide
keeps vital technology out of third-world countries. As part of a series of initiatives to
end global poverty by 2015, the United Nations is using, promoting, and creating free and
open source software. David Boswell gives an overview of the plans and progress.

This wireless, two-way remote control won acclaim in the pro audio community for
simplifying computer recording. Now it works with iTunes as well. Songwriter Spencer
Critchley tests it with iTunes and Reason, discovering how to loop song sections, create
remote playlists, and even tranzform iTunes into a foot-controlled backup band.

The Adobe Developer Source has posted a new tutorial showing how to, with the
combination of PHP and Flex, to browse the contents of a MySQL database. One critical
element to remember about programming with Flex is that it cannot connect to a database
directly - it requires some form of middleware in order to access data. You'll be using
PHP in order to generate the XML files that Flex will use to manipulate the data from the
database. PHP plays the middle-man in this lengthy...

On the SearchOpenSource.com site today, there's this new article combining two popular
things together to make one powerful and productive tool using the Amazon web services and
the Zend Framework. Web frameworks have been all the rage lately, and for good
reason. They eliminate a great deal of the mindless repetition involved in creating Web
applications large and small. Spurred on by the enormous success of Rails, PHP
developers have been hard at work creating a number of...

PHPBuilder.com has posted part six of their "Using XML" series today with a focus on
validation techniques using both normal PHP abilities and the XSL functionality in PHP5
with the Schematron language. This series has so far focused on XML technologies and
how they can be utilised using PHP 5. A subject we have not touched upon yet, is XML
validation. This article will explore the application independent XML validation standards
of DTD's, the XML Schema Language and the XSLT-base...

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For those that might of missed it, Zend put on a webcast/screencast yesterday on the
topic of "Web Services with PHP". The good news is, though, that if you weren't able to
make it, the fine folks over at the Zend Developer Zone have a recorded version of
it. Due to technical limitations with our streaming software, we could only allow
the first 550 folks into the presentation. Because of the network load, this was a
difficult presentation to pull off due to lag. Paging from sli...

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On the Zend Developer Zone, there's a new post about two new browser plugins that have
been created surrounding the popular Zend Framework, both related to
research/searching. Some enterprising Zend Framework contributors have hacked
together a couple plugins for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Ralf Eggert has
created a sidebar to allow easy access to commonly used links, as well as a search module.
From this idea, Richard Thomas was inspired to create a plugin to search th...

From NewsForge.com, there's a new article centered around the effectiveness that PHP has
had in helping a family business - the Caldwells' SeniorGlobe.com and a web development
company, SonicFog. When he began looking for a programming language to learn, his
criteria was still affordability. PHP was the best choice. So he went to Borders and
bought "a big book" on programming in PHP. It was baby steps." Those steps added up,
and although Caldwell says he's made "every prog...

The Cake Baker (Daniel Hofstetter) has a quick post about a little unofficial something
that those working with the CakePHP framework might want to check out. Something
missed by a lot of people is now live: a forum for CakePHP. It is run by a CakePHP user
named "kain". At the moment it is still empty and needs to be filled with
activity. The forum is already starting to fill up - not a lot, but it's a start. It
uses the Vanilla software to run the site.

Joshua Eichorn has a new update on his Webthumb application he's mentioned before,
noting some of the issues/updates that he's worked through so far. Webthumb got off
the ground yesterday without too many problems. It ran into problems right out of the gate
since a large number of sites don’t seem to want to finish loading correctly. I also
updated the server config, Webthumb now supports flash (version 7), and has a lot more
fonts installed so sites that need non-latin characters...

In Part 1 we learnt about customizing the CreateUserWizard control, adding the newly
registered user to a default role and storing data in Profile properties. Going further
this article will explain how to develop an administrative page that manages User-Role
mapping. We will also discuss Login controls such as Login and LoginView.

The International PHP Magazine site has two new polls posted today, one looking at the
most requested features in a content maangement system and the other asking about the
biggest disadvantage to using PHP5. In the first poll (CMS features), they ask
readers to tell them which features they'd rather have most in their software of choice.
Options range from "small footprint" to "easy to skin". Submit your choice here In
the second poll they already have the results posted, sh...

Tobias Schlitt mentions today in his latest post about his first patch to PHP, an update
to the pathinfo function's code being commited. Hehe, some might say, that those 10
lines of C code are not even worth calling it a patch. Especially, since it was mostly
copy and paste work and since Christian Schneider also adviced me for some improvement.
Anyway, Marcus just commited my enhancement to pathinfo(), which adds a new field
"filename" to the returned array of path elements. ...

Time to request language changes? Also:
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As an offshoot from a previous project, Joshua Eichorn has extended his code and created
Webthumb, an automatic way to create thumbnails of any website out there. So about
11 months (wow that long time ago, feels like last month) I used some code I had lying
around to make some thumbnails of all the planet php blogs. Work priorities has finally
allowed me to work on that code base again, and I was able to get things up to a usable
state. The result of this, is a new project...

On the ThinkPHP blog today, Thorsten Rinne demonstrates how he (and others at
GmbH/ThinkPHP) were able to integrate PHP with the Windows NT LAN Manager through a PHP
script for authentication. Sometimes you need to do strange things – and then PHP
is the language of choice if you need a solution for web applications in really special
environments like using a Windows based authentication method on a Linux server.
Here at Mayflower GmbH / ThinkPHP we wrote a proxy server fo...

On the NewsForge website, there's this new look at the latest version of a popular
PHP-based content management system - Serendipity 1.0. Serendipity is a PHP-based
content management system (CMS) for powering blogs and other sites, and has a feature set
that should make any blogger happy. After several years in development, the Serendipity
team hit the 1.0 mark on June 15. Let's see how the 1.0 release shakes out. The
author (Joe Brockmeier) opts to jump in with both feet, m...

The IBM developerWorks site brings us yet another fine PHP-related article with this new
tutorial today, a look at five common design patterns (and how to use them). It's
difficult to demonstrate the value of patterns using small examples. They often look like
overkill because they really come into play in large code bases. This article can't
show huge applications, so you need to think about ways to apply the principles of the
example -- and not necessarily this exact cod...

Greg Beaver is throwing a "release party" in this new post on his blog today, mentioning
the release of PHP_Archive, PHP_LexerGenerator, PHP_ParserGenerator, and, of course, the
latest version of PEAR. Just now, I released new versions of PHP_Archive,
PHP_LexerGenerator, PHP_ParserGenerator, and Pierre released a new version of
PEAR. He also outlines the changes is each package, more so PHP_Archve and
PHP_LexerGenerator/PHP_ParserGenerator.

Pierre-Alain Joye has posted this new note today about the release of PEAR
1.4.10. I just released PEAR-1.4.10 (Greg released it again later, I forgot to
commit the new state, stable ;) ). Besides many bug fixes, this release boost the
open_basedir and safemode support. Also, I really hope it is the last 1.4.x release, we
will now focus on PEAR 1.5.x and up but more about that later this week. With this
new update, you can finally run the installer with open_basedir in...

As an offshoot from a previous project, Joshua Eichorn has extended his code and created
Webthumb, an automatic way to create thumbnails of any website out there. So about
11 months (wow that long time ago, feels like last month) I used some code I had lying
around to make some thumbnails of all the planet php blogs. Work priorities has finally
allowed me to work on that code base again, and I was able to get things up to a usable
state. The result of this, is a new project...

With a bit more formal announcement, Pádraic Brady has posted these details about
the resource he's working up, the Patterns for PHP site. Patterns For PHP is a new
project to write and catalogue Design Pattern descriptions and tutorials for PHP
programmers. The website is intended as an (advertisement free) online resource for Design
Patterns with a focus on PHP implementations. It is our intention to allow the public
edit and contribute freely to its content under ...

Ilia Alshanetsky has posted a quick note about building PHP with cURL/HTTP support
combined with adding a MySQL extension. Conflicts can happen with some of the libraries,
and he knows how to solve it. The MySQL binaries found on mysql.com are built against
yaSSL as opposed to the more common openssl against which libcurl (usede by cURL and HTTP
extensions) is linked. The conflict between the two libraries causes curl initialization
of the SSL layer to fail preventing startup of ...

One drawback of working with AJAX is that an AJAX-based client cannot make calls to URLs
outside of its domain, which means that it cannot access services located on another
server. A Java based proxy can be created to allow a client to access content from other
domains and gives you the ability to transfrom and have better control of the data you
allow your clients to see. The XmlHttpProxy client is a generalized proxy for Java
clients.

SwingX-WS contains a set of JavaBeans for interacting with web services. Initial beans
include support for several Yahoo and Google webservices such as searching news, video,
images, and financial data, as well as a generic tile based mapping component (as seen in
the Aerith demo at JavaOne 2006), The SwingX-WS beans have been designed with graphical
configuration in mind and work very well inside of a JavaBeans aware editor such as
NetBeans. The SwingX-WS project is actively seeking n...

Just a few days ago we received an alert from blueMarine developer. He's updated the
blueMarine application with a Google maps viewer based on the Aerith Mapping Component!
Check out the new screenshot. She's a beauty. (A one in a million girl. Why would I
lie.... (oops, lapsed into the Tubes there for a minute))