Inserting Multiple Rows with One Database Call Using PHP and Oracle Collections
Original post provide by The Oracle+PHP CookbookHow to use Oracle collections to improve the efficiency of PHP scripts that feature multi-row inserts
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Read the discipline of PHP. 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.
Yahoo! Goodies: UI Library And Design Patterns
Not quite what i expected: these are user interface guidelines, not coding patterns that explain ways of implementing these guidelines. 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.
PHP Life : The Oracle
After a short break the PHP Life team are back. In this strip we look at the Zend/Oracle deal. If Oracle do buy-out Zend then let's hope things fare better for the Zend staff than Oracle staff at the moment!
PHP @ FrOSCon: Call For Papers
It will take place on August, 23th and 24th 2008 in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany.The PHP Usergroups Dortmund, Köln/Bonn and Hamburg are cooperatively organizing the PHP track as a sub-conference of the FrOSCon. The call for paper is now open.
Improving Performance Through Persistent Connections
The concept of persistent database connections is a question mark for many PHP developers. When exactly is it a wise decision to use them?
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Why I Like PHP Revisited
PHP breaks down the ivory towers (thank god!) Unlike Java or Python, you can have a team with different skills using PHP. 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 Compilers
Most computationally intensive compiler benchmarks have shown a 5-10 times speedup over mod_php. Perhaps it is only a matter of time before we see a JIT compiler for PHP to Intel opcodes, built into mod_php... A more curious question is why there has been so little takeup of these faster technologies.
Paris Forum 2007 : Call For Papers
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.
Steve Yegge On Strong And Weakly Typed Languages
I still have some doubts. Do weakly-typed systems have inherently lower scalability? Do they tend to dissolve into vast typeless traps at a certain size, as the static camp would have you believe? Do the runtime type-error rates get out of hand, even with rigorous unit testing and software-engineering discipline?
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