Tobias Schlitt’s Blog: Book of the month (eZ Components)
Original post provide by PHP FreaksTobias Schlitt mentioned today that the book from him and fellow coauthor Kore Nordmann, a guide to the eZ Components framework, has been made the featured book of the month over on DynamicWebPages.de.
On the website you now find a picture of the book in a very prominent place and an extensive recension (German) linked from there.
You can find out more about the book and pick up your own copy from Amazon.
Previous Articles:Jonathan Snook's Blog: Password Protecting Admin Functions In CakePHP
Jonathan Snook has posted a helpful trick for CakePHP users out there looking to secure sections of their site away from normal users and keep it only in the hands of the admins. I just wanted to document this for easy future reference but if you don't want to hook up a complex user adminstration with authorization components, you can simply specify that the admin path be password protected in either your .htaccess file or in your httpd.conf.
Matthew O'Phinney's Blog: Burlington PHP Tonight
Bradley Holt will be giving a presentation on developing a web application using Zend Framework. Bradley Holt is founder and web developer for Found Line, a local design and development studio which has used Zend Framework in several recent projects.
Zend Developer Zone: Lifting The Skirt On Zend Framework 1.5 - Zend_Form
Like everything in Zend Framework, almost everything is configurable; however the defaults are probably good for most uses. They include some sample code that shows the creation of both a simple, sample form and something a little bit more advanced including validation methods and making fields required.
Community News: Latest PHPClasses.org Releases For 01.30.2008
Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:JPEG Slicerclass upload fileFeed GeneratorCSV CreationKG MySQL ClassMYDB ClassmyYouYubeCotação do DollarObject dynamic generationHTTP client classconvert
AJAX Virtualization? Java Applets To Create Dynamic Web Pages
The OPC DataHub from Cogent Real-Time Systems now provides more ways to visualize and interact with real-time data in a web browser. Its new streaming AJAX Web Data Browser displays immediate updates to data from a wide range of sources like databases, spreadsheets, and OPC servers.
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DevShed: Keeping Track Of Objects When Using Destructors In PHP 5
In this third part of the series, I'm going to show you how to retrieve some useful information about a specific object, including its properties and methods, prior to its being destroyed by the PHP parser via the implementation of a simple destructor.
The Bakery: New Articles/Components/Helpers Posted
The Bakery (for the CakePHP framework) has several new articles/helpers/components they've posted about lately here's the list: CakePHP on IIS Yahoo! Weather Component ACL Management Plugin Visualize Generate a graphic of your models/tables Tree Helper New Year, New Beta Check out The Bakery for more information on these and other great CakePHPrelated items.
A Mythbuster's Biggest Tech Headaches (and Solutions)
Computer-makers: Don't load up operating systems with features and then make us sweat to figure out how to get rid of the fat ... There's another solution available to consumers: Switch to a Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu. Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
ProDevTips.com: HTML Entity Encoding Everything
However, sometimes you might want to encode different languages to entities too. I just found a script that will do that in the form of an html encode application. He includes an example showing how to encode a string of nonenglish characters out to an easytodisplay HTMLified string.
Congrats Costa Rica PHP!
Pablo writes the following about their first meeting: I’m very pleased to announce that we had a great response from the PHP developers here in Costa Rica. We held our first meeting in the University of Costa Rica (UCR), with a total of 37 developers of different backgrounds and skills.