Php News & Articles

Modera, an up and coming European Web CMS provider, has announced their latest core product release and the availability of a new Pro version of their CMS. The heavy focus is usability via AJAX with a touch of SEO for good measure.

In an attempt to promote the Windows operating system as a deployment target as well as a development environment, Zend and Microsoft have partnered together to include Windows-specific performance enhancements in the release of Zend Core 2.0.

It has been a long five years, but the Roller Weblogger blogging platform has finally graduated from the Apache Incubator and achieved top level status as an Apache project.

We don’t always characterize IBM’s written word as concise nor clear. However the output from their Developer Works group is another matter. These articles are consistently useful, to the point, and consumable. Their latest is part one of a three part series covering the notable XML-oriented enhancements native to PHP 5. It focuses on SimpleXML and the DOM.

In their recent 2007 Scripting Languages — Developers Choice Report, involving more than 400 developers, California-based Evans Data Corporation found that contrary to some popular opinion, Adobe and Microsoft’s environments were considered by developers to be more secure than client/server AJAX scripting solutions such as Ruby, PHP, and Python.

The second update to WordPress has been released, and in just a 10 day period. This is no miracle of agile development. Rather, v2.0.7 is a quick hit patch that addresses both security issues arising in some versions of the base PHP platform and an integration issue known as the “FeedBurner Bug”. The update is recommended for anyone running WordPress 2.0.6 or lower.

WordPressors, time to get downloading. Your favorite open source Blogging platform has been updated for the last time before the 2.1 release, according to Matthew Mullenweg.

Don’t know where to start with Drupal 5? Confused about whether or not you are using Drupal to it fullest? Don’t want to hands-on train the deodorant deficient newbie in the next cubicle? No worries, put your order in for the April 2007 release of Pro Drupal Development by John VanDyk and Matt Westgate.

With Sun GPLv2’ing its Java software this week, a lot of focus is on the other open frameworks that have risen during the same era, and their comparative value in a post open source Java world. One such take is from well-known Sun insider, Tim Bray, who spoke at last week’s International PHP Conference in Germany.

Ektron’s CMS400.NET was their first native .NET Web Content Management System (CMS). With much of the purchasing world fragmented into .NET or J2EE and the SMB market slanted towards .NET, this was a wise move, and one that has reaped strong returns for the company.

Recently announced, Ektron’s CMS400 now supports ColdFusion, JSP, PHP and ASP as well as ASP.NET for integration, customization, and the presentation layer of websites built upon the product.

Perl is great, but then only when someone else is programming it. During today's investigation with the new MT 3.1 code tree and with great pleasure, I delved into the "mt/php" directory.

Dynamic Pages are a feature of MT 3.1. They are implemented with PHP. What I did not realize previously is that the good blogging folk at Six Apart had done what appears to be a nearly complete port of MT from Perl (bless it) to PHP. This port appears to include support for all current MT tags, it relies on Justin Vincent's ezSQL DB library and Smarty templates, and even supports a plug-in API.