Two years after launching the industry standard for PHP Certifications and certifying over 1,300 engineers, Zend has once again teamed with a group of leading PHP experts to bring you the "Zend PHP 5 Certification" exam.

Topics that will be covered by this new exam will include:

• PHP Basics - syntax, constants, control structures
• XML and Web Services - SimpleXML, XPath, SOAP
• Functions, Arrays, Strings, Pattern Matching
• Design and Theory
• Streams and Network Programming

If you use Dojo, have a look at the fabulous widgets called TurboWidgets from TurboAjax.com: it's available for non-commercial and commercial usage. One of the great widgets is a data grid which can be customized in a wide variety.

As I've discovered in the TurboWidget forums, they're working on a virtual data grid. Imagine you want to display a list of 100,000 or more items which can be a major pita especially when working with slow internet connectivity. The solution is a real virtual data grid

He points to a demo they've posted and includes two screenshots, one of the previous situation with data grids like this, and a shot of theirs in action (loaded with 100,000 rows).

Here's a tidied up excerpt of the current NEWS file with all relevant changes since PHP 5.0, which may help on the decision to upgrade (even from PHP 4).

Some of the things mentioned include:

• More than 350 fixes
• Some extensions moved out to PECL (11)
• PEAR upgrades
• Upgrade of the bundled Windows libraries
• Loads of Improvements and Addons

You can check out his post for the complete list...]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:53:54 -0600