I've released my tutorial on Object Oriented PHP in Spanish. You can download the PDF. Many thanks to Javier W. Barbieri from Iquitos Peru.

Check out the KillerPHP.com site for more great tutorials - including videos - released to learning PHP.

A couple of new translations of my Zend Framework tutorial have crossed my desk in the last week. Kubek Bartosz has very kindly created a new up to date Polish version of my Zend Framework tutorial. Alex Musayev has created a Russian translation too.

Check out the list of translations for his tutorial including Brazilian, Spanish, Italian and French.

Claudio Cossio has translated both my Zend Framework tutorial and my Zend Auth Tutorial into Spanish!

Find out more about the two tutorials (and their translations) from their pages on Rob's site - Getting Started with the Zend Framework and Getting Started with Zend_Auth.

Zend Framework has been picking up its pace of development recently. Many great improvements are coming soon in areas such as MVC, Acl, Authentication, Session handling, Search engine, and Gdata. There is also some great work in progress for Locale, Date, and others.

Other updates mentioned include a mid-December release date for a new Preview Release, a wiki page to show future release dates, a mention that the ZF is free software, and that the document translation section of the team is still (as always) in need of help. If you feel like getting in on the action, check out this page on the ZF wiki for more details.

A new stable release of FUDforum is now available for download. This release incorporates all of the changes found in the previous two release candidates in addition to an updated German translation and a newly added Vietnamese translation as well. All users of FUDforum are encouraged to upgrade to this release for improved performance and stability.

You can get more information on the release from here and here as well as download this latest edition from the main FUDforum page.

I just received a copy of PHP5. Wprowadzenie, the Polish translation of Learning PHP 5.

He also jokes about one of the code listings in the book, trying to figure out what "Kurczak generała O'Tso" might be.

If you would like to order this translation of the book, you can pick it up at helion.pl.

One of the main concerns of internationalization consists of separating the main source code from the texts, the labels, the messages and all the other objects related to the specific language in use. This facilitates the translation process as such as all the resources related to the local language context are well identified and separated.

In a global market the costs to translate and update the texts (including labels, messages, menu elements and so on) can easily become quite high. This is the context where the TMX standard comes to help by applying to the translation and management process of these texts the concepts of reuse, increase of consistency, and the shortening of the production cycle. All this with the added bonus of cutting the development costs.

They give you the XML structure for the example they're working with and the code to get it all working. They also do a great job of explaining how the standards all work. The code is relatively undocumented, but is clear enough to be easily included and used on any site.]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:15:48 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4632 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4632 John Cox has a pointer today in this new entry on his blog to a handy cheat sheet for converting Perl to PHP.

Robert Kline has a handy little cheat sheet to translate Perl to PHP or vice versa. It's been quite some time since I had written any Perl, besides a quick parser or two. This certainly does the trick for me in getting my thinking correct for the Perl syntax. I would assume Perl hackers would say the same thing when needing to use PHP.

The sheet goes through things like arrays, array split/joins, string comparisons, HTML elements, and MySQL database access. Obviously, it works the other way around too, allowing PHP programmers to get some of the basics of Perl...]]> Mon, 09 Jan 2006 06:58:29 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4361 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4361 David Sklar has two quick new posts today about two new PHP books that he's recieved - a copy of the French version of the O'Reilly "Learning PHP 5" book, and the "PHP Cookbook" in Russian.

The Russian translation of PHP Cookbook, arrived in the mail yesterday. My rudimentary sound-out-Cyrillic-letters skills that remain from a trip to the Soviet Union in 1989 have been helpful as I stumble my way through.

The delivery man also brought PHP 5 - Elementi di programmazione, the Italian translation of Learning PHP 5. It looks great, although I have to admit I'm a tiny bit disappointed that they didn't take the French approach and transpose all the Chinese food references into local delicacies.

If you're interested in either of these translations, be sure to check them out. They're O'Reilly, so you know the quality's good - even better that you can read it in your native language!]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:50:21 -0600