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The AFUP, Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP, is proud to announce the upcoming conference “Forum PHP 2007″. For this unique event in France, we are looking for the best French speaking experts, who want to share their know-how and enthusiasm. This two day conference features one technical day, with the most advanced PHP techniques and a business day, with case studies and examples of successful projects. The “Forum PHP Paris 2007″ will take place in Paris on Thursday and Friday the 21th and 22th of November 2007.Please send your proposals at bureau@afup.org. This email must contain the following information: namecompany if applicablea short (4-6 sentences) biography about your PHP experiencecomplete name and addressinclude photo for each speaker (JPEG format)Sessions will typically be 45 minutes long followed by a 10 minutes Q&A session.You are allowed to submit several proposals. The email must then contain the extra information: session titletarget audienceshort description (~10 sentences)

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PHP Compilers
The commercial Roadsend PHP to binary compiler. The .NET framework Phalanger, a PHP to MSIL compiler (added 22 Dec 2005). The original mod_php from php.net. The PHP4Mono compiler for Mono (added 27 Feb 2006). I am excited about all these implementations.
Why I Like PHP Revisited
The hardcore programmers build the core libraries, and the web designers and more sociable programmers working on the user interfaces, all coding in PHP. PHP is mainly a string processing language. That makes it really good for manipulating HTML.
Inserting Multiple Rows With One Database Call Using PHP And Oracle Collections
How to use Oracle collections to improve the efficiency of PHP scripts that feature multi-row inserts
Is PHP4 The New Perl?
As a corollary, one of the probable reasons the takeup of PHP5 is so slow is because PHP4 provides sufficient hacking power already. I think PHP5 is more attractive to people who want to code with rigor. So is PHP4 perl for the web?
Yahoo! Goodies: UI Library And Design Patterns
Useful, but don't be misled. The User Interface Library includes libraries for drag and drop, animation and othehr interesting stuff under a BSD license. Widgets provided include Calendar, Slider and Tree View. The widgets don't seem particularly interesting (there are good alternatives out there), but the attractive thing about these libraries are that they have probably been thoroughly tested on more browsers than I could possibly test on.
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Steve Yegge On Strong And Weakly Typed Languages
At this juncture, I think enforced static typing (e.g. what you find in Java, C++, OCaml, Ada, etc.) is detrimental to progress and flexibility. I also think that a complete lack of support for it (e.g. what you find in Ruby and today's Python) is problematic for being able to selectively tighten up systems as their usage patterns become established.
Using Oracle's Built-in Security Features With PHP
How to take advantage of Oracle's native security features to improve the security of your PHP Web applications
The PHP.net Google Summer Of Code
A major weakness in the current implementation is that it cannot detect reference cycles, that is objects that reference each other in a circular graph structure which is not referenced itself from outside the circle. Mentored by Derick Rethans, David Wang will implement a new reference counting algorithm that will alleviate this problem.
ROLL YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE WITH ZEND_SEARCH_LUCENE
Usually this leads to using some canned script that crawls the website, or a hacked up search function that uses the database but either returns too many results or none at all. On top of that, the queries performed are too many or too slow.Until now, most developers have been forced to use relational databases to power search, install extra component packages, or seek out other non-php solutions.
ROLL YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE WITH ZEND_SEARCH_LUCENE
One of the features that sets the Zend Framework apart from the others is the inclusion of a decent search module. Zend_Search_Lucene is a php port of the Apache Lucene project, a full-text search engine framework. Zend_Search_Lucene promises a simple way to add search functionality to an application without requiring additional php extensions or even a database.  For more information visit: http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/91

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