Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 12.31.2007
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Latest PEAR Releases:Net_Ping 2.4.3Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_XLS 0.1.3Console_CommandLine 0.2.0
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Ilia Alshanetsky has an announcement on his blog today about the release of the next candidate for the upcoming PHP 5.2 series - PHP 5.2.0RC5.    After 2 weeks of inaction 5.2.0 final release is finally in sight. A few minutes ago I've released the last (I mean it this time) release candidate of 5.2.0, RC5. If all goes well a week from now 5.2.0 final will be out ready for use. In the meantime I'd like to ask once again that everyone try this RC, which can downloaded from here.   I don't think you'd be able to find any major issues or regressions in this RC, but if you do certainly let me know, if necessary RC6 is not out of the question.    The more this new release is downloaded and tested, the faster we all get PHP 5.2 - so get out there and get testing!   The Windows builds have also already been created courtesy of Edin Kadribasic.
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Elizabeth Naramore points out the recent publication of the latest International PHP Magazine issue for July of 2007:   I was happy to contribute to their recently released June edition. I did an interview with the new PEAR Group on the future of PEAR. I'm glad to see such enthusiasm and collaboration among the newly elected group.   You can check out the issue and order your copy from the International PHP Magazine website (here's the table of contents too showing the rest of the articles/columns in this month's edition.
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Latest PEAR Releases:Mail_Queue 1.2.1PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.1.1PHP_FunctionCallTracer 1.0.0File_PDF 0.3.0CodeGen_MySQL_Plugin 0.9.1devCodeGen_MySQL 0.9.1dev
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:Community News: Namespaces in PHP6Mike Potter's Blog: Sample Code From PHP / Flex e-SeminarThe Bakery: PremierMarinas.com, ScienceHack.com and an iPhone AppPHP F1: PHP Session TutorialCommunity News: GoPHP5 Official SiteCommunity News: jPOP Framework - Javascript & PHPTim Koschuetzki's Blog: Composing Methods: Remove Assignments to ParametersAlexey Zakhlestin's Blog: YAML: Syck for PHP is not read-only anymoreMatthew O'Phinney's Blog: File_Fortune refactoredSite News: Popular Posts for the Week of 07.06.2007
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:PHP.net: PHP 4 end of life announcementZend Developer Zone: Book Review: Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHPStoyan Stefanov's Blog: phpBB front-end optimization - 1 hour workshopSitePoint PHP Blog: Win Cash for the best Facebook App!Elizabeth Naramore's Blog: July Edition of IPM PublishedJob Posting: ManicMelon.com Seeks Mid-Senior LAMP Web Application Developer (Overland Park, KS)Paul Jones' Blog: Solar Views and LayoutsCodeIgniter Blog: Version 1.5.4 ReleasedPHP-GTK Community Site: MkDevDVD (DVD Manager for Linux)Job Posting: Next Internet Seeks Senior Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)
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Pierre-Alain Joye has a little reminder posted to his blog today about two posts from planet-debian and Apache that refer to clones/references in PHP4 and PHP5 and some of the misconceptions presented there.   Reading planet-debian and Apache (from Sven and David), I catched two posts about clones and references in php4 and php5. I do not think it is worth to explain again everything here as Sara wrote a very good post already, check it out here.   He mentions his annoyance with articles/posts like these and the impact that it has on PHP as well as the person posting.   I wonder when the OS community in general will be mature enough to stop bitching at each other. And that's valid for PHP developers, gnome-kde and other well established wars.
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Latest PEAR Releases:PHP_CompatInfo 1.4.1HTML_Progress2 2.3.0RC1pearweb_phars 1.1.0pearweb 1.4.0Auth 1.5.0HTML_QuickForm_altselect 1.0.0RC1PEAR_PackageUpdate 0.6.1PHP_Beautifier 0.1.13pearweb 1.4.2Structures_LinkedList 0.1.2pearweb 1.5.0RC1Console_Getopt 1.2.2Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Flexy 0.1.0HTML_CSS 1.1.3Text_CAPTCHA 0.2.1PHP_CodeSniffer 0.4.0
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To prepare the way for the upcoming PEAR book from Packt Publishing correctly, Stoyan Stefanov has posted this info about the book and where to find the latest details on it.    Here's the link to publisher's page dedicated to the PHP Programming with PEAR. Guess who wrote the chapter for MDB2? ;)   It's an honour to me to be in the company of the other authors, people who have done a lot for the PEAR community    He also mentions some of the topics that the book will contain, including accessing databases with MDB2, creating and parsing XML documents, and accessing web APIs. The book is coming out in September, so keep on the lookout for it at your local bookseller soon.
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PHP was a great year for the PHP community and had both his high moments and its lows (just like any other community on the web) so, in lieu of our usual monthly recap type of year en post, we present a summary of some of the things that happened this past year:  2007 Gave us:  Plenty to talk about on namespaces GoPHP5 EMFs (Even More Frameworks) the mysqlnd driver lots of new tutorials over 2,500 new PEAR and PECL package releases Several new PHP releases (5.2.1, 4.4.5, 4.4.6, 5.2.2, 4.4.7, 5.2.3, 5.2.4 and 5.2.5) The End of Life for PHP 4 The Month of PHP Bugs A move for PHP in the Enterprise a renewed effort for Unicode support releases from the major framework players like CakePHP, Symfony, Zend Framework, Solar IBM and Oracle working together with Zend Over 130 new job postings Increased interest in running PHP on Windows (FastCGI!) The creation of and episodes 1 through 30 of the Zend Developer Zone podcast PHP Abstract   Books:  The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites PHP and MySQL by Example PHP Solutions PHP Programming with PEAR PHP in Action Pro Drupal Development The eZ Components Developers Handbook The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks (2nd Edition) Learning PHP Data Objects Enterprise PHP Development (announced)   Conferences:  5th Annual eZ Conference Vancouver PHP Conference php|tek 2007 Dutch PHP Conference SymfonyCamp php|works 2007 Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2007 (including the Unconference) DC PHP Conference 2007 PHP London 2007 Conference   I know there's stuff out there that I've missed, so comment away and let the community know! (I might come back and link all of these things later on)
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Latest PEAR Releases:HTTP_Session 0.5.6PEAR_Info 1.7.0PEAR_PackageFileManager_Cli 0.3.0Math_Fraction 0.4.1QA_Peardoc_Coverage 1.1.0PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.2
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Latest PEAR Releases:Mail 1.1.11Mail 1.1.12XML_RSS 0.9.10Mail 1.1.13Structures_Form 0.8.0develStructures_Form_Gtk2 0.8.0develSelenium 0.1.4Services_YouTube 0.1.3Gtk2_ExceptionDump 0.1.0DB_DataObject_FormBuilder 1.0.0RC5HTTP_Session 0.5.3Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_CSV 0.1.2PHP_CodeSniffer 0.0.5
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Latest PEAR Releases:HTML_Table 1.8.1HTML_QuickForm_DHTMLRulesTableless 0.3.2PhpDocumentor 1.4.0RC1pearweb_gopear 0.6.0pearweb_gopear 1.0.0PEAR_Frontend_Web 0.7.1DB_Table 1.5.0Net_LDAP 1.0.0RC2pearweb_gopear 1.0.1DB 1.7.12SOAP 0.11.0SOAP_Interop 0.8.2PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.0RC1Services_Digg 0.1.2PEAR_PackageUpdate_Web 0.4.0PEAR_PackageUpdate 0.7.0PEAR_Info 1.7.0RC1PHP_CodeSniffer 0.7.0Auth 1.5.3Auth 1.5.4
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Latest PEAR Releases:Auth 1.5.3Auth 1.5.4HTML_BBCodeParser 1.2.2PEAR_Info 1.7.0RC2Validate_FI 0.4.0File_Fortune 0.9.2File_Fortune 0.9.1PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.0I18N_UnicodeNormalizer 1.0.0RC1I18N_UnicodeNormalizer 1.0.0RC2PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.1MP3_IDv2 0.1.2Testing_Selenium 0.3.2OpenDocument 0.1.1HTML_Template_PHPLIB 1.3.3File_Fortune 1.0.0RC1
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Latest PEAR Releases:Config 1.10.11Auth 1.5.2Net_LDAP 0.7.3HTML_Progress2 2.3.0HTML_CSS 1.2.0Console_Getopt 1.2.3DB_Table 1.5.0RC3Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DataObject 0.2.0PhpDocumentor 1.4.0a2PHP_LexerGenerator 0.3.3PEAR_PackageFileManager 1.6.1Games_Chess 1.0.1PHP_Parser 0.2.1Mail_mimeDecode 1.5.0Mail_Mime 1.5.0Auth_PrefManager 1.2.0
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Smarty and MIME message integrationYour SayphpPhotoGalleryInterfacesIlariaParser 7just7.comaDB PDO like database abstractionSAMP Socket
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Latest PEAR Releases:Log 1.9.10Net_LDAP 0.7.0PHP_Archive 0.10.0DB_Table 1.5.0RC1Math_BigInteger 1.0.0RC3DB 1.7.9pearweb 1.2.4PHP_Beautifier 0.1.12pearweb 1.2.5pearweb 1.3.0pearweb_phars 1.0.0pearweb_phars 0.1.0PHP_CompatInfo 1.4.1