When we think about PHP Template Engine, the most famous library is certainly Smarty. However, we may consider other alternatives to Smarty. In this post we have collected 16 template engines written in PHP that allow you to separate HTML code from PHP code.

Among those on the list are templating engines like:

• Smarty
• Savant
• Dwoo
• PHP XTemplate
• h2o-php

I spent the last few days in sunny Spain at the PHP Barcelona conference as a speaker. [...] The conference itself was excellent [...] I also saw some great talks from the other speakers there, some were people I often see at conferences, others were familiar names, and yet more were people I'd never heard of but I certainly learned a lot from all these groups.

She notes that, contrary to what she expected, most of the talks were presented in English showing an "interesting cultural shift" in some of the international conferences.

If you missed the conference, you can find out more about the sessions on their site and some pictures on flickr.

This is a roundup of the available PHP IDEs both free and commercial. You will find a wide range in pricing (free to $400) and options available on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X including PHPAnywhere which is a web-based IDE.

IDEs in the list include:

• NuSphere PhpED
• PHPEdit
• Dev-PHP
• Komodo Edit
• PHPanywhere

The first day of the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo (the day of tutorials) was great. I sat in on Robert Richards's Advanced XML and Web Services and Marcus's and Sara's Extending PHP tutorials. I multi-tasked as best I could, catching up on some work while finishing my slides and listening to the presentations.

He comments on the talks he's attended (like Robert Richards' XML/Web services talk and the contents of the keynote - including the announcements of the collaborations with Microsoft, IBM, and the new advancements that Zend has made with their products.

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Included in this week's edition are mentions of:

• the Zend_Controller_RewriteRouter propsal
• the introduction of Zend::VERSION
• the tweaks made to the Framework's manual
• the huge announcement of the change in the Framework's license
• some talk on Zend Search Lucene

For the complete details on these and many more happenings, check out the full story.

Included in his list are things like:

• Zend's move to put the framework under the BSD license
• the arrival of the Thinktank Wiki/Blog site
• Digg and scalability
• using Atlas with PHP

Included in this edition are mentions of:

• the SVN mailing list getting back in working order
• concern/suggestions about brining in config options
• a suggestion of a webservice server/client
• the formation of a documentation mailing list
• lots of work surrounding Zend_PDF
• updates to Zend_Mail
• discussion on access to model/views in an MVC framework
• the formal introduction of the Dutch Translation Team
• a brief mention of user interface items
• a high-level question asked - "Why use a framework?"
• a small number of module proposals (Zend_Access and Zend_ControllerView_Config).

And, of course, the release of the Framework version 0.1.3. You can grab this latest release from their download site directly, or use the Subversion repository for continual updates.

Wow, after 2 weeks of steady growth and activity, the mailing list traffic took a pause early this week. It looked like I was going to get a vacation but apparently last night everybody discovered the "Send" button and things kinda got out of hand. C'mon people, help me out here, I get paid by the word on these things. Post often, daddy needs a new Mac!

There's mention last week of: an Ajax extension, authorization/access control lists, the Zend_Registry extensions, a Japanese translation of the ZF manual, and the proposal of a Zend_Tree extension, and a large discussion on the integration of web services functionality into the framework.]]> Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:46:36 -0500 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5122 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5122 Florian Anderiasch thought he'd take his own look and see how they compared with each other and how they matched up with his expectations.

I've felt the need to both test both the Zend IDE and phpeclipse and so I made a little thing for practice and to fiddle around a bit.

Just a very quick and rudimentary roundup, but imho especially an IDE shouldn't get in the programmer's way and do just what it should be - aid development.

He mentions being surprised and impressed by PHPEclipse, while left a bit cold by Zend's offering ("I wasn't able to work with a file of just 500 lines because it felt more frozen than sloppy"). His personal choice for larger projects? PHPEclipse.]]> Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:03:28 -0500