There's lots more where these came from - it's a jam-packed two day conference with great topics to appeal to everyone. Check out the main conference site for more information on how to attend or just head over to the registration page and get your spot reserved today.
The Zend Framework team has officially released for download the latest version of the Framework - Preview Release 0.2.0.
The Zend Framework community has released the 0.2.0 Preview Release. This release contains many important enhancements and new features:
New MVC implementation
New HTTP request and response objects make it easy to automate unit testing for web apps without a web server, and also make it possible to use MVC for command-line and PHP-GTK application development
Enhanced pure PHP Lucene-compatible search engine component
New Mysqli DB adapter
New JSON server
New REST client and server
New XmlRpc client and server
New Acl component
New Session component
New Web Services clients for Delicious and Audioscrobbler
The contest runs until November 30th, and the top 5 submitters will all win upgraded WebThumb accounts. The top submitter will also win a copy of my book, Understanding AJAX.
Since previously, all that was required was a comment on this blog entry, people who've posted there need to listen up - an official submission needs to be made. Check out this page for the complete rules and all of the information you need to include in the submission email.
As pointed out by Tobias Schlitt, the full collection of slides from the PHPWeekender have been posted to the event's website.
To grab them, head to the main site and scroll all the way down to the schedule at the bottom. Each of the talks that have slides are linked to the archive with them cmpressed inside. Some great topics were presented that weekend, including a look at XML handing in PHP, shell scripting, best practices, and object-oriented programming.
Best Practices - security, performance up to basic OOP features in PHP and debugging
Object-oriented programming - "OO Candy store"
and the ever-popular "Enterprise PHP"
You can check out the slides and information for each of the talks on Kore's own page listing them out (as well as some other great talks from other conferences).
The Zend Developer Zone has a quick post about the arrival of a handy tool for working with simple testing on your PHP script - the phpt generator.
Etienne Kneuss has finally finished his phpt generator. So if you need a basic phpt test for a function (or the entire PHP library) - don't write it. Be lazy, click a few buttons and back to chatting on IRC you go.
Etienne is also quoted as saying that the purpose of the script it to help spot problems in examples and to help "extend the code coverage analysis".
Elizabeth Naramore has been kind enough to let us know that the schedule for this year's PHP Appalachia conference has been posted over on their site.
The schedule includes plenty of relaxing time spent camping, hiking and even a few PHP-related discussions thrown in, just for something different. Two official speakers are giving their talks first thing on Day Two and Day Three:
Ben Ramsey on REST
Chris Spruck on Regex
There will also be some Lightning Talks for those interested during Day Two. Check out the full schedule for everyhting happening in this great three day event.
An official guide to choosing names for identifiers in userland has been added to the PHP manual on PHP.net. In his latest post, Lukas Smith talks about it:
So now we finally have some guidelines on how users should name their identifiers to be fairly future proof. This should hopefully help reduce the amount of pain people suffer when PHP adds new features like a class for Date or File handling. Although the two mentioned examples have settled on using DateTime and FileObject to get around the issue at least partially.
The guide itself is unfortunately spread over 3 pages, which does not seem to make sense since there is really not that much content there yet. Then again the guide may get expanded in the future. Anyways I recommend that every serious PHP programmer have a look at the guide. If there are any issues please let me (or the PHPDoc team) know. Otherwise make sure you adapt your internal CS to match this guide.
The guide talks about the naming of items in the global namespace (functions, classes, interfaces, etC), some rules to follow for internal identifiers, and some quick tips on naming to create pseudo-namespaces.
As PHP Magazine notes, the schedule for this year's International PHP Conference is now available on their site.
The program for the annual International PHP Conference, scheduled to take place in Frankfurt, Germany from November 5 to 8, has been announced. The conference is divided into 'Power Workshop Days', 'Management Day' and two main conference days replete with technical sessions that will equip you with information on technology that you will need for your daily work.
Topics of some of the workshops at this year's conference include a look at MySQL 5.1 in depth, taking your first steps in PHP, and a look at PHP security. There are tons of other sessions in lots of different categories including: "General PHP", "PHP & Databases", "PHP Extensions", and "PHP-GTK". Several well-known speakers will be presenting such as Christopher Kunz, Derick Rethans, Tobias Schlitt and many more.
For complete information on the conference and to register yourself, head over to phpconference.com.
The latest editon of the Zend Framework has been released today - Preview Release version 0.1.5.
The Zend Framework community has released their 0.1.5 Preview Release. Although this is primarily a maintenance release, it does move the new RewriteRouter to the core and takes it one step closer to becoming the default routing model for the MVC portion of the framework.
The Zend Developer Zone post has the complete release notes for this new edition with information on bug fixes, improvements, documentation updates, a new feature (an APC backend), and several fixes for unit test failures.
