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As Alexey Zakhlestin points out today, Lukas Smith has made the announcement that the MySQL group is finally recognizing the efforts of the PDO developers and supporting them:

Ok, it seems that MySQL AB is finally committing to fix up PDO_MySQL and
to generally accept the fact that PDO is the future. Of course mysqli
will also be actively maintained. But they will also make mysqlnd play
nicely with PDO etc.

There’s budgets and time lines for the project so things are already moving along and developers to the project will soon be assigned. Lukas also mentions updated on PHP’s side validating that the documentation for the extensions (mysql and mysqli) are up to date and correct.

Previous Articles:
Greg Beaver's Blog: Working Towards Pyrus And PEAR2, Check It Out Or Miss Out
The code has been developed on PHP 5.2, but will most likely target PHP 5.3 with the introduction of namespaces. Pyrus completely revamps the way things are done. Greg mentions some of the functionality the installer will use including XMLReader/XMLWriter, namespaces and bits of functionality from the Standard PHP Library (SPL).
Christopher Jones' Blog: Book Review: PHP Oracle Web Development
The book's reviewer, Arup Nanda, was, amongst other things, Oracle's DBA of the Year in 2003. The result is an excellent book that joins the PHP and Oracle worlds together. Christopher talks about some of what the book covers (like installation and code snippets) and the book's excellent focus on different topics, giving each it's own full coverage.
Community News: PHPPodcasts.com Launched
phppodcasts.com is not a replacement for any of the existing feeds, it won't be on iTunes because it's not in competition with the owners podcasts. It's an archival site and a place for people to explore the different podcasts available for PHP developers before subscribing to them.
Secunia.com: Mandriva Update For PHP
This fixes some vulnerabilities, where some have unknown impacts and others can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions, malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions, gain escalated privileges, disclose potentially sensitive information, or cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and cause a DoS.
GoogHOle Exploits GMail, Picasa And 200K Other Sites
Giorgio Maone writes "Multiple Google-targeted exploits disclosed in the past 3 days could compromise your GMail account, steal your pictures from Picasa or impersonate you on almost 200,000 big sites which outsourced their search engines (vulnerabilities included in the price). If even Google, a very reactive company when web security matters, does face this kind of problems, how serious is the threat and what can you do, as a "normal" web user, to protect yourself?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Felix Geisendorfer's Blog: Migrating From WordPress To CakePHP
In this post I'm simply going to throw out some snippets to show how I'm currently approaching the whole process in order to give both my insight into what works and what doesn't, while also hoping to get some people to share their insight into migrating legacy apps to CakePHP.
Nexaweb Delivers Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite At AJAXWorld
Nexaweb Technologies, provider of the leading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications, today announced the latest release of its Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite. Nexaweb?s Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite enhanced design and management features, as well as its interoperability with leading governance solutions from Layer 7 and HP Systinet, make it the ideal RIA, composite application and enterprise mash-up development and deployment platform for IT organizations and the heterogeneous and distributed business groups they serve.
Gopal Vijayaraghavan's Blog: APC Autofilter: The Real Story
He presents a dilemma where classes are created in two different ways (inside and outside included files) and a problem that could cause the APC caching to not cache a file at all after a certain point. He even gives an example of how, in normal code and a pretty basic development situation, this sort of thing could happen.
Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug
=A1+1 returns 100,001, which appears to show the formula is in fact 100,000... =A12 returns 131,070, as if A1 had 65,535 (which it should have been). =A11 keeps it at 100,000. =A1-1 returns 65,534. =A1/1 is still 100,000.
SPL Article Published
Rather, it’s fairly easy to use… once you get the hang of it. And getting the hang of it requires a good introduction, which is why I wrote this article. My article was originally intended to be part of a series of articles about features and functionality in PHP 5 that provided a case for adopting/upgrading to PHP 5.

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