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A new article from O’Reilly demonstrates the power of three-tier development in PHP 5, using PEAR::DB_DataObject for the business logic and Smarty for display logic. Assuming that you have some familiarity with HTML, Smarty, PEAR::DB_DataObject, MySQL, and PHP 5, and that you’d like to brush up on your knowledge, the following articles explain some of the theory.
With the cost of Web access and Web accounts going south and issues with the quality of service constantly resurfacing, VARs are touting PHP for dynamic Web pages. In a new article that focuses on Web hosting, CRN takes a look at why solution providers and vendors alike are so excited about PHP. Matt Villano, the author, goes onto say, “With more than 15 million Web sites running PHP, the language is the hottest thing to hit hosting since AOL. Customers are clamoring for it, and solution providers are selling PHP-based services in droves. As a result, vendors like Alabanza and Zend Technologies are launching new channel efforts designed to help partners make PHP a top se
If you are an independent software vendor who develops and distributes software made with PHP and MySQL, Zak Greant’s answers on The Top Seven MySQL Licensing Questions will be worth a read. This article aims to clearly answer seven of the most common questions asked by PHP users about MySQL’s licensing. For each question, this article attempts to provide a simple and direct answer that focuses on the intent of the question, rather than its literal meaning. Additionally, for each question and answer, there is also a more detailed and technical supporting discussion.
Olexiy Prohorenko looks at a software project with a PHP front end and a Java based back end. In Use SOAP to Access EJB Components with PHP he shows how to expose your EJB components as web services. He takes a stateless session bean, deployes it as a web service using SOAP, and then modifies the PHP front end to use this web service.
The O’Reilly PHP Devcenter has a new article posted seeking to help you out with your form handling with a listing of several tips to get started.
Some of the topics mentioned are: using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] as the form action, using brackets for a “multivalued form parameter”, dividing up the display/logic/validation of the form into their components.
They also mention using PHP to your advantage when printing out form elements as well as looking into the HTML_QuickForm PEAR class to help you in your quest.
In a new note from the BitFlux blog, Christian Stocker has information about the latest patch comitted to the PHP 5.1 branch that allows you to parse not well-formed XML documents and adds the missing elements, eg. missing closing tags.
Basically, it sets up the document with the DOM parser using a special variable (recover) to tell the interpreter to ignore incomplete data/tags and still make the information inside the document useable. The output isn’t the normal object/data model that the DomDocument normally contains, but instead outputs a corrected XML document to take and parse all over again.
With all of the badly formatted XML out there, something like this, can come in very, very handy…
Since SQLite comes bundled with PHP 5, I thought I’d post this for those interested.
SQLite currently does not support ALTER TABLE statements. This can make developing/modifying an app a bit cumbersome, since modifying a table requires creating a temp table and copying data back and forth. To this end, I’ve created a PHP wrapper for SQLite that does the dirty work for you and supports all types of ALTER TABLE statements. The source is in the public domain, so you may use it however you like.
Documentation:
http://code.jenseng.com/db/
Source:
http://code.jenseng.com/db/sql.txt
I will be releasing an optimized version with cleaner code, more comments, and additional functionality (such as RENAME TABLE) in a few weeks.
If you use link and ever wondered (like I have) about how the boot process this is a great article: How Linux Boots.
If you’re ever in Ontario, Canada, you’ll take comfort in knowing that the local chapter of the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association relies on PHP to help save lives. Seriously — if I was lost or stranded in the Canadian wilderness, I wouldn’t want my rescuers relying on ASP . . .
Olate has an interview with Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, who are the principle developers of PHP. It’s an interesting (albeit brief) look at the men behind the technology.
