Latest posts on the PHP Classes blog http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/ Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:15:20 GMT http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/ http://files.phpclasses.org/graphics/elephpant_logo.gif http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/phpclassesblog/~3/FDDgmSZnvYA/97-10th-anniversary-announcements.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/97-10th-anniversary-announcements.html">10th anniversary announcements</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">The PHPClasses sites completes 10 years of existence precisely today.<br /> <br /> This article presents a reflection of the past, present and future developments of the site.<br /> <br /> It includes the announcement of a contest to pick a new design for the site and an upcoming brother site that will be launched this year.</a></div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/939Un8kEaN8hbTuDeBOdx7ezzl8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/939Un8kEaN8hbTuDeBOdx7ezzl8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/939Un8kEaN8hbTuDeBOdx7ezzl8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/939Un8kEaN8hbTuDeBOdx7ezzl8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:00:17 GMT http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/97-10th-anniversary-announcements.html http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/97-10th-anniversary-announcements.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/phpclassesblog/~3/6UxIblJano0/96-PHP-standards-discussion-group-opens-to-the-world.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/96-PHP-standards-discussion-group-opens-to-the-world.html">PHP standards discussion group opens to the world</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">A discussion group was formed to define standards to be adopted by PHP frameworks and applications.<br /> <br /> This article gives an initial overview of what is this group about.</a></div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-Z8GDB0XIsbvRLudw-vxjog-qpQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-Z8GDB0XIsbvRLudw-vxjog-qpQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-Z8GDB0XIsbvRLudw-vxjog-qpQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-Z8GDB0XIsbvRLudw-vxjog-qpQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:00:06 GMT http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/96-PHP-standards-discussion-group-opens-to-the-world.html http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/96-PHP-standards-discussion-group-opens-to-the-world.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/phpclassesblog/~3/N3lHDv92DsE/95-How-large-is-the-PHP-market.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/95-How-large-is-the-PHP-market.html">How large is the PHP market?</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">Sometimes it is necessary to know how large is the PHP market in the world or in a specific country.<br /> <br /> It may help, for instance, developers to advocate for PHP, companies to decide for sponsoring PHP events, PHP training, developing of products targeting the PHP developers, or any other initiatives directed to the PHP market.<br /> <br /> This article presents several sources of information that may help decision makers to invest more in the PHP market.<br /> <br /> The article also covers the huge popularity of Firefox browser among PHP developers attributing it to the superb Web development extensions available for this browser. The most useful Firefox extensions for PHP developers are listed.</a></div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EgHJ_tNiBQpon6thoIlR93iP_O8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EgHJ_tNiBQpon6thoIlR93iP_O8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EgHJ_tNiBQpon6thoIlR93iP_O8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EgHJ_tNiBQpon6thoIlR93iP_O8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Wed, 13 May 2009 11:10:41 GMT http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/95-How-large-is-the-PHP-market.html http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/95-How-large-is-the-PHP-market.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/phpclassesblog/~3/EsLxKdedh6g/94-Upcoming-PHP-53-features-and-beyond.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/94-Upcoming-PHP-53-features-and-beyond.html">Upcoming PHP 5.3 features and beyond</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">PHP 5.3 release candidate 1 was released a few days ago. The final version is expected to be released in the upcoming weeks.<br /> <br /> This article presents an interview with core PHP developer Lukas Kahwe Smith that has pushed many of the new features of PHP 5.3 as release manager.<br /> <br /> Lukas talks about PHP 5.3 new features such as lambda functions, closures and PHAR support. He also explains what are traits, which for now it is a feature that was left out of PHP 5.3.<br /> <br /> He also talks about future PHP 5.x and PHP 6, as well how anybody can help in the development of PHP to make it come out faster. </a></div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Vc6r1dSX-7KmtfO33apF8xo5Jsc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Vc6r1dSX-7KmtfO33apF8xo5Jsc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Vc6r1dSX-7KmtfO33apF8xo5Jsc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Vc6r1dSX-7KmtfO33apF8xo5Jsc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:55:44 GMT http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/94-Upcoming-PHP-53-features-and-beyond.html http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/94-Upcoming-PHP-53-features-and-beyond.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/phpclassesblog/~3/fkI4cGC7iwc/93-Winner-of-PHP-Programming-Innovation-Award-of-the-year-announced.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/93-Winner-of-PHP-Programming-Innovation-Award-of-the-year-announced.html">Winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of the year announced</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">The winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of 2008 was announced.<br /> <br /> Now there is also a ranking of the innovation award of all time that considers the score of each author since the award started in 2004. There are also new rankings of author countries for each year and all time.<br /> <br /> Cesar Rodas won the 2008 award. Here he gives an interview telling about many good things that happened since he won last year. He also shares his secrets to contribute so many innovative classes appreciated by the users that voted on them and made possible to win the 2008 award.</a></div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ezgwYUfGklxS4lkNuuCJp4q_a8s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ezgwYUfGklxS4lkNuuCJp4q_a8s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ezgwYUfGklxS4lkNuuCJp4q_a8s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ezgwYUfGklxS4lkNuuCJp4q_a8s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:04:23 GMT http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/93-Winner-of-PHP-Programming-Innovation-Award-of-the-year-announced.html http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/93-Winner-of-PHP-Programming-Innovation-Award-of-the-year-announced.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/phpclassesblog/~3/AfYO920FYgs/92-Running-PHP-on-Google-App-Engine.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/92-Running-PHP-on-Google-App-Engine.html">Running PHP on Google App Engine</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">This is a small article to tell about an experience that a PHP developer carried to successfully run a PHP application on Google App Engine.</a></div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FhBJAm0-9Moqp6NJKcMR-pPQHpU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FhBJAm0-9Moqp6NJKcMR-pPQHpU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FhBJAm0-9Moqp6NJKcMR-pPQHpU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FhBJAm0-9Moqp6NJKcMR-pPQHpU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:02:06 GMT http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/92-Running-PHP-on-Google-App-Engine.html http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/92-Running-PHP-on-Google-App-Engine.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/phpclassesblog/~3/Phc7wWWaeOY/91-Avoid-being-blacklisted-for-spam-you-did-not-send.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/91-Avoid-being-blacklisted-for-spam-you-did-not-send.html">Avoid being blacklisted for spam you did not send</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">If you ever tried to send e-mail messages that never seem to reach the destination, don't blame PHP limited built-in mail capabilities!<br /> <br /> You may be victim of having your mail server blacklisted for SPAM that you never sent.<br /> <br /> This article explains a situation that may cause innocent mail servers to be blacklisted very easily.<br /> <br /> Other short news mention a PHP IDE survey, how to follow the latest package blog posts by RSS or on Twitter, and an upcoming update of the site privacy policy.</a></div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Cb6XpAxvuN1ZUWCeRMo60NjSbNI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Cb6XpAxvuN1ZUWCeRMo60NjSbNI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Cb6XpAxvuN1ZUWCeRMo60NjSbNI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Cb6XpAxvuN1ZUWCeRMo60NjSbNI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:35:28 GMT http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/91-Avoid-being-blacklisted-for-spam-you-did-not-send.html http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/91-Avoid-being-blacklisted-for-spam-you-did-not-send.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/phpclassesblog/~3/IiSwBVfJuX8/90-Blogs-for-class-packages.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/90-Blogs-for-class-packages.html">Blogs for class packages</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">The PHPClasses site is launching a new feature that allows authors to publish interesting articles about their classes in specific blogs that are being made available for each class.<br /> <br /> The site main blog is also open to every user for submissions of articles of general interest to the PHPClasses site users.<br /> <br /> Compensation will be made available to top contributors.</a></div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8-r4ZjLUAbEOVBr9d5Pn033MHpc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8-r4ZjLUAbEOVBr9d5Pn033MHpc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8-r4ZjLUAbEOVBr9d5Pn033MHpc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8-r4ZjLUAbEOVBr9d5Pn033MHpc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:20:20 GMT http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/90-Blogs-for-class-packages.html http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/90-Blogs-for-class-packages.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/phpclassesblog/~3/sMKKjWq10o4/89-Quickly-importing-data-from-CSV-file-into-PHP-applications.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/89-Quickly-importing-data-from-CSV-file-into-PHP-applications.html">Quickly importing data from CSV file into PHP applications</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Alexander Skakunov</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">In this article you may learn how to quickly import data from CSV files into your application with help of PHP.<br /> <br /> It also covers a tool that provides a Web based user interface for importing CSV data into a MySQL database table with support for mapping CSV columns into arbitrary MySQL database table columns.</a></div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/v2oYWj0hdnUqb85IhA5N6d1-pZk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/v2oYWj0hdnUqb85IhA5N6d1-pZk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a 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copy files to a remote server.</a></div> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ihy39-ra3JoS8wVQcw1inRiQ8OE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ihy39-ra3JoS8wVQcw1inRiQ8OE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ihy39-ra3JoS8wVQcw1inRiQ8OE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ihy39-ra3JoS8wVQcw1inRiQ8OE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:18:02 GMT http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/88-Automating-Backup-Tasks-Remotely-with-PHP-and-PECL-SSH2-extension.html http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/88-Automating-Backup-Tasks-Remotely-with-PHP-and-PECL-SSH2-extension.html