• the Google Summer of Code
• the upcoming PHP 5.3 release
• Building PHP on Windows
• the release of version 1.5 of the Zend Framework

...and much more! You can get this latest episode in two different ways - either download the mp3 directly or you can subscribe to their feed and get this and other great episodes packed with news from all around the PHP community.

Back on track, mostly. We had to use the crappy internal mic on my laptop, but it's better than shouting to the next town over... right?

There's lots of different topics covered this time including the infamous CLA, Traits, Late Static Bindings, PHP on Windows, Drupal 6 and much more. You can either grab the show directly from the page or you can subscribe to their feed to get this and future episodes.

Today PHP 5.2.1 was released which fixes some (but not all) of the bugs I will cover in the "Month of PHP bugs". Actually the release announcement already gives a list of bugs that were fixed.

He also comments on the reporting of the bugs in the Changelog and updates in the release announcements and how they're handled.

This latest issue [PDF] covers all sorts of topics, including an article focused on PHP and SQL security today by Andrew Benniestan.

Some of the other topics covered in this month's issue cover:

• Best practices in enterprise database protection
• Security for websites - breaking sessions to hack into a machine
• Apache security: Denial of Service attacks

You can grab this latest edition from their site or go to this direct link [PDF]]]> Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:32:49 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5024 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5024 Chris Shiflett has posted about the release of the latest issue from php|architect - March 2006 - and some of the security-related content inside.

Another edition of php|architect has been published. I was especially excited to read this one, because it's Ilia's first month writing Security Corner. It's nice to see a topic explained from a different point of view, and there is still too little interest in security within the PHP community. (In other words, this is a rare opportunity.)

He discusses cross-site request forgeries, an attack first mentioned in php|architect back in 2003. Sadly, it remains one of the most dangerous, yet relatively unknown attacks. It deserves more attention.

Chris goes into more detail about the issue, noting some of the differences of opinion that he and Ilia seem to have about the finer points. There's also a pertinent secret shared about Chris' comment forms - check the post to see what it is.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:13:48 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5021 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5021 March 2006 issue of php|architect magazine has been released and is available for purchase from their site.

In this edition, some of the articles featured include:

• Helmut Tessarek's look at the DB2/Zend Core for IBM - what it is and how to use it
• A look at "Building Scalable PHP Applications" by Chris Hartjes
• A piece trying to make sense of why frameworks have become such a big deal (by Darryl Patterson)
• the two columns from the usual suspects - Jeff Moore's "Test Pattern" and Ilia Alshanetsky in the "Security Corner"

If you're not already a subscriber (or haven't checked out an issue yet), take a look at their free issue. If you already know the quality php|architect has to offer or just want to pick up this latest issue, head over to their online store and purchase it today!]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:49:02 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4988 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4988 March 2006 issue - packed full of useful and interesting topics.

This month, some of the articles included are:

• Thomas Myer looks at how to get the most performance out of your scripts that use "enterprise XML" (cover story)
• Elizabeth Naramore's look at two sites that cater to off-the-wall subjects, made possible with PHP
• Peter Lavin covers why documentation is critical in a project, and offers some tips on how to keep it up to date
• Jon Stephens' look at partitioning in MySQL
• and much, much more...

If you would like to purchase this issue (or just get a subscription) you can visit their online store and get it right away.]]> Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:34:49 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4986 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4986 a reminder (and some notes on the agenda) of the upcoming PHP user group meeting of PHP Zurich (Tuesday, Mar 14th at 18:30).

Just a reminder and I'm too lazy to write something by myself, so I just copy Harry's mail (and everyone's still welcome):

Apologies for filling inboxes (and apologies for English) - just a reminder that [tomorrow] this is happening: meeting details.

There's some information on the agenda of the night and a link to the meeting details for those that want to come along.]]> Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:12:31 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4985 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4985 Pro PHP Podcast has been announced - an interview with Clay Loveless of Feedster.

Join us on March 24th, 2006 at 1PM EST as host Marcus Whitney will speak with Clay Loveless of Feedster and the Pearified project.

Clay will give us an inside look at how Feedster has utilized PHP 5 to completely renew their frontend as well as the other ways that PHP is employed at Feedster.

Feedster's search engine scans the Blogosphere constantly, providing a fresh look at the more than 22 million sources it tracks. Clay will also discuss the Pearified project, a PEAR-Compatible Extension and Application Repository using the PEAR_Server to store extremely popular PHP and JavaScript packages such as PHPMyAdmin, Savant and Prototype.

If you'd like to attend this live webcast, happening Friday, March 24th at 1PM EST, you can sign up here.]]> Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:05:41 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4963 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4963 Norbert Mocsnik has posted this reminder about his talk at the Hungarian Web Conference 2006 this year in Budapest.

Next Saturday (03.18.006) I'm gonna talk about the great new features of PEAR 1.4 on the Hungarian Web Conference 2006 in Budapest. Everybody is warmly welcome to visit the event (entrance is free but registration is required - hurry up, not too much seats left).

Some of the keywords that the program will cover: PEAR 1.4 (PHP), ASP.Net, Web Forms 2/XForms, Macromedia Flex, Textarea++, Icecast+AJAX, Django, Ruby on Rails, Perl, W3C, Web Accessibility, Java, High-Availability System, Semantic Web etc.

For complete information and a schedule of events, you can check out the official site for the conference...]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:48:59 -0600