Almost a year later, the issue of object oriented (oo) versus procedural programming in PHP is still a hot topic. In fact, with the steady adoption of PHP 5 and all its oo improvements, it is hotter than ever. So, I draw your attention to the article I wrote for Zend which drew a lot …
I had the privilege of email interviewing Clay Loveless of Killersoft about an exciting new development in the PHP community. Hot on the heels of the Pear 1.4 release, Clay has launched Pearified.com–a Pear-compatible code repository. The site already has a Pear-installable Smarty distribution, and next in the crosshairs are big names like PHPMyAdmin and …
My colleague in France, Bertrand Gugger, has been hard at work implementing SMS alert-sending capabilities for the Net_Monitor package. This functionality depends upon the nacient Net_SMS package, so we will be looking for ways to create end-to-end (from interaction with the gateway to display on the device) testing before release. It will be interesting to …
I released some code you might find useful for replacing mail() functions with the Pear Mail_Queue package. It is a simple drop-in replacement function (called mailq–so you only have to change one letter). I use it all the time to Mail_Queue-enable existing PHP applications. Instructions are available in the repository. Enjoy!
I have cleaned up the SimpleQuiz Online Testing System file structure a little bit and released it on Sourceforge. If you are interested in a basic online testing system written in PHP/MySQL, this package might be a good kickstart to your next project. The idea is to make it easy for teachers to create and …
C|Net announced that IBM is partnering with Zend to better support PHP. Besides a few minor mistakes (PHP does not stand for, “Personal Home Page” but rather the recursive GNU-style acronym: “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor”) the one point that stands out to me is that IBM is compelled to “spin” PHP as a language for small-to-medium …
