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Community News: Seven Things

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:41:15 -0600

Ever wanted to know more about the individuals in the PHP community around you? You're in luck! The "Seven Things" meme has been zipping its way through the PHP community with some great results. I've tried to get together a list of the posts made so far - it's not going to get them all, but its a start. Those linked in the top list are ones tagged and with a blog post. The normal list at the bottom are those that are tagged but haven't gotten around to writing their Things:

And here's the slackers:

Joe LeBlanc
Ed Finkler
Greg Beaver
Sean Coates
Bill Karwin
Terry Chay
Chris Shiflett
Aaron Wormus
Michael Kimsal
Laura Thomson
Graham Christensen
Nate Abele
Ligaya Turmelle
Lukas Smith
Max Horvath
Johanna Cherry
Beth Tucker
Zac Greant
Helgi �ormar �orbj�rnsson
Brandon Savage
Marc de Visser
Joe Stagner
Christian Flickinger
Ralph Schindler
Wil Sinclair
Barry Austin
FoxyDot
Eric David
Jan Lehnard
Pierre-Alain Joye
John Coggeshall
Stas Malyshev
Christopher Jones
Gaylord Aulke
David Coallier
Joe Stump
Josh Eichorn
Ken Guest
Harry Fuecks
Jeff Moore
Maggie Nelson

If you're one of the ones that hasn't posted yet and you get around to it or if I've left someone's post out of the list, let me know and I'll update the list.

Richard Davey's Blog: Two interesting new PHP commands

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:34:37 -0500

Richard Davey points out two new interesting PHP commands he discovered when looking through the graphics (GD) section of the manual - imagegrabscreen and imagegrabwindow.

Upon further investigation both of these commands can be used to take screen shots of the desktop of your server, or any applications window (such as a web browser). Both commands are listed as being "Windows only" and also possibly only in CVS, but I found both of them are in the 5.2.3 standard release and compile without error. However at the moment neither appear to actually do anything other than return fully black images

In testing the functionality, though, his only results were black screens and images instead of the expected image results.

SitePoint PHP Blog: CouchDb: document oriented persistence

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:49:40 -0500

Harry Fuecks mentions an interesting project today on the SitePoint Blog - CouchDb - a stand-alone document store, accessible via XML REST.

Firing up the CouchDb server on Windows is a breeze-follow the README. PHP-wise, you need the new http extension which is most easily done on Win32 by grabbing the most recent PHP 5 release (5.1.6) and the corresponding collection of PECL modules.

The interface between CouchDb and PHP is REST - XML + HTTP - you can also point your browser directly at the CouchDb server (default - localhost:8080) and get around with a little help from the CouchDb wiki.

So, if it's Just Another Database, why should we pay attention? Harry notes (with a code example) that it's more about how it stores the information and not just that it does. His example takes in a POST request from a form and pushes it (raw data) into the CouchDb functions. He also gives an example of where this would be handy - in a wiki (like Dokuwiki) where the files are currently stored on the filesystem instead of in a database.