Latest PECL Releases: timezonedb 2011.14 mysqlnd_ms 1.1.2
Community News: EngineYard Hosts "Future of PHP" Live Panel – "PEAR & Pyrus"
EngineYard, a company that recently merged with the PHP platform as a service provider Orchestra.io, has a new live panel podcast about the Future of PHP, specifically involving PEAR and Pyrus. If you are a PHP developer using PEAR and Pyrus, we invite you to join us this week as we explore the future of [...]
PEAR Blog: PEAR Development on Github
On the PEAR blog today it’s been pointed out that many PEAR packages are moving to github as their standard place for development and repositories under the pear and pear2 accounts are available for anyone wanting to make the move. While the existing PEAR packages will continue to use the pear.php.net distribution and bug tracking [...]
PHPMaster.com: Code Templates, AutoHotKey, and Ditto: Speeding Up Development
On PHPMaster.com today they share a list of helpful tools and tricks that you can apply not only to your PHP development, but programming in general. They highlight code templates, using hotkeys and Ditto. There are also other helpful pieces of software such as libraries, code snippets, and third party applications. In this article I’ll [...]
Ed Finkler’s Blog: Building a Tumblelog with Gimme Bar and PHP
Ed Finkler has a new post today showing how he’s created a tumbleblog using the Gimmie Bar API and backend as a source for the posts. For the curious, the code for his simple blog can be found here. One of the coolest things about working on Gimme Bar has been the opportunity to build [...]
Derick Rethans’ Blog: Multiple PHP versions set-up
Derick Rethans has a new post today looking at a method for setting up multiple PHP versions on the same machine and switch between them with a little help from some simple bash scripts. For many of my projects (both hobby and commercial) I need to support many different PHP configurations. Not only just different [...]
Davey Shafik’s Blog: Faster Arrays
In this new post to his blog Davey Shafik looks at an alternative to the traditional arrays most scripts use – something a little faster and more specific: SplFixedArray, part of the Standard PHP Library included with every release. The SplFixedArray class provides a super-fast, fixed size array implementation. There are some limitations however, first [...]
Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 11.07.2011
Latest PEAR Releases: Services_ProjectHoneyPot 0.6.0 PHP_CodeSniffer 1.3.1
Using MySQL with PHP mysqli: Connections, Options, Pooling – Internet Super Hero
Opening a database connection is a boring tasks. But do you know how defaults are determined, if values are omitted? Or, did you know there are two flavours of persistent connections in mysqli? Of course you, as a german reader, know it. I blogged about it in 2009 over at phphatesme.com (Nimmer Ärger mit den [...]
