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On The Bakery, there's a new expanded tutorial (from this) that talks about how to check for duplicate records in your CakePHP model. [Here's how to] validate a form field (such as a user name field), both in add and edit form and make sure that the selected user name does not already exist in the database [via a] function repeated only once (in app/app_model.php).The example model they give defines an isUnique method that essentially runs an automatic check (a count() call) on the table to see if the given information exists. The example Model, View, and Controller are all given. |
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Damien Seguy (maintainer of the French PHP site, Nexen.net) has passed along two new helpful links for those checking out the site one specifically for the Englishspeaking audience out there and the other an effort to consolidate the distributions out there. Two pieces of news for you I have set up a page which collect all English articles on Nexen.net. http://www.nexen.net/the_english_speaking_nexen.net.php That's not much, but it will help nonFrench speaking readers. I collected the list of PHP and MySQL distributions. Nowadays, there are way too many sources for those too technologies to be downloaded from: official version, snaps, installers, source, binaries, source control...So I made a list of them, and they are now in one place to be found. The one place is this page on Nexen.net gives the latest on PHP, MySQL, and the packages that combine them for an easier install. |
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Jacek Artymiak published the second edition of his Dynamic Bitmap Graphics with PHP and GD tutorial over on DevGuide.net today focusing specifically on creating bitmaps on the fly. The 39 page guide ($15 USD from Lulu.com) provides a wealth of knowledge about working with graphics in PHP including a detailed look at some of the more advanced functionality of GD. The book covers your first steps with GD and graphics, working with primitives, creating an image based on external data, and embedding them into an XHTML/HTML page of your choosing. The page for the book on DevGuide.net itself even provides a great list of resources for those looking to get into graphics with PHP with links to everything from the basic software (webservers, PHP, etc) out to the libraries you'll need and some other tutorials to help you even after you've worked through the book. |
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In an effort to keep track of some of the lesser seen patches to the core of PHP, the Zend Developer Zone has started a weekly summary that talks about the PAT directory: The PAT directory contains patches (fixes and improvements for the C source code behind PHP) that have been sent to the internal developers' mailing list by members of the wider PHP community. The mailing list is fairly busy as are the developers and patches aren't always noticed by someone able to review and perhaps apply them; this can lead to people repeatedly mailing the same patch to the list in the belief that they're being ignored!The idea behind the posts is to provide a listing of those patches for those looking for them (including the PHP dev team) until they've been evaluated and moved out of the PAT directory purgatory. |
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Company Red Ventures Location Charlotte, North Carolina Title Several LAMP Developer Openings Summary Due to our growth and new business launches, we are currently seeking several LAMP Developers (Linux/FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) to join our team and augment our existing web development capabilities. Selected individuals will become part of a team dedicated to the development and design of flexible and scalable web applications. We have multiple positions available. The primary job responsibility for these web developer positions is to provide PHP programming and functionality for a wide variety of consumerrelated websites, intranets, extranets and webbased applications. This entails designing, evaluating, updating and maintaining object oriented applications in PHP. Developers are challenged on a daily basis to solve problems in new and creative ways. We offer a competitive salary, a superior work environment and excellent benefits. Relocation assistance is available for the right candidates. For consideration, please submit your resume to
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Richard Heyes has posted a quick script to help you tailor your site to the browser a viewer is using. If you ever wanted some browser detecion code, here it is. It works along the same lines as the Ultimate Javascript Client Side Detector, however it's server side. It doesn't pollute the global namespace (much), and it's very simple. Just include the code and call the function. Easy.The code is as simple to use as an include and a call to the GetUserAgent function to get what you need. You can download the script here. |
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The phpPgAdmin development team is happy to announce the release of the latest version of their software phpPgAdmin 4.1. The phpPgAdmin Team is proud to announce a new major release ofphpPgAdmin. Version 4.1 adds many new features, bug fixes andupdated translations over the previous version.Updates include:New icons by Niko , from the graphics repository onpgFoundrySend encrypted passwords over the wire wherever possibleDisplay Prepared TransactionsAdd Support For IN/OUT Parametersand many more. Check out this posting for a more complete listing or just head straight to the download page to grab the update. |
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WebReference.com has posted part two in a series looking at the building blocks that make up PHP and its use. This time, it's a look at the containers for your data the data types, literals, variables, and constants. They go through each, explaining what they are, how they're used and when you'd want to use them in your code. They explain the data types and how those fit with each container and some basic things like valid names and how to assign things correctly. They even get get into working with variables from GET and POST requests as well as working with the scope of variables and getting the metadata about them (is it an integer? is it empty?) |
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The latest version of the (already) popular Zend Framework has been released. As per the official announement from the Zend Developer Zone: This preview release is the result of a great effort from our Zend Framework community developers to create advanced PHP classes for internationalizing applications. The Zend_Locale, Zend_Date, Zend_Measure, and Zend_Translate classes enable you to bring your PHP project to a global audience by handling text, dates, and messages with bestpractices methods, using an easy objectedoriented interface that is characteristic of Zend Framework components.Updates in this new release include:New translationmanagement component with gettext supportComprehensive class for working with measurements and conversionsNew class for managing memory usage in PHP applicationsMany other improvements in current components such as MVC, Session, Gdata, HTTP Client, Search, XmlRpc, and othersFor full details on these new features and on the framework in general, check out thier wiki documentation. |
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The JSLabs blog posted something yesterday (Jan 21st, 2006) about a new release for one of the most popular PHP blogging engines out there WordPress. A new release, version 2.1, should be coming today (Jan 22nd, 2006). Some of the new features that will be included are:an autosave function for the drafts that you're working on using Ajax to send the data to the backendbecause of an effort to keep things compatible, the WordPress team worked to keep most plugins from breaking with the new updatesignificant improvements to the rich text editor in the composition pane of the administrative side (improvements to the TinyMCE functionality)You can get more info in the update from this post on the WordPress site and keep an eye out on their download page for this new update. |
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The PHP Thinktank Blog has posted two new IRC logs of talks give over in their IRC channel on the Freenode network. Now that all the yearly holiday chaos is out of the way, we bring you new logs of two recent IRC discussions. As usual, they are available on the google group.The two talks were:a look at Injection from BigEa discussion of web scraping with Elzar. |
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Latest PEAR Releases:XML_RPC2 1.0.0Structures_DataGrid 0.8.1Auth 1.5.0RC1HTML_Progress2 2.3.0a1Net_MPD 1.0.0Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_MDB2 0.1.5Console_Table 1.0.6SOAP_Interop 0.8.1DB 1.7.8RC2File_PDF 0.2.0 |
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Company Telio Telecom AS Location Oslo, Norway Title Senior Web Developer Summary A candidate in this position will work in a team oriented environment with rapid turn around times from requirements collection to product deployment. Our web development team is responsible for new and ongoing development and maintenance of the various web applications designed to serve our end users as well as tools to help Telio's customer support. Link More Information |
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With unit testing becoming more and more prevalent in development of online applications (especially PHP), it's good to see some of the frameworks giving their users as much information as possible. The symfony project has done just that as a part of a larger book on the framework. You're probably curious to see if what we wrote in this book is really helpful and practical. So we decided to offer you a sample of the book, in PDF format, and that's precisely Chapter 15 about units and functional tests.To check out this sample chapter from thei upcoming book (the chapter on unit testing), download it here or just grab the book from Amazon to add to your collection. |
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Christopher Jones of Oracle mentions an event happening in Beijing and is open for any and all to attend an Oracle/PHP InstallFest happening February 3rd at Oracle's Beijing RandD Center. If you're an IT professional or student with basic Linux and programming experience and interested in PHP and Oracle Technologies, this Install Fest will give you a great introduction.Folks from the Oracle staff (from Asia's RandD center) will be heading it up and will provide instruction on how to install and use the two technologies together. It's about two hours long and will be presented in Mandarin. If you want to attend, be sure to send a note to
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David Coallier looks yet again at his method for using the Zend_Db module of the Zend Framework without having to use PDO to connect to your database. Due to the large amount of interest in the development, he's created a subversion repository to give developers the latest version: Well that's right, over the past couples weeks I have receivedemails, have seen comments and bug reports on my blog about the packageI started couple weeks ago that let anyone use the Zend Frameworkwithout having to use the PDO extension. [...] I have decided to setup a new svn repository related to it.You can access the main repository for the latest downloads here: http://dev.agoraproduction.com/zend/svn. |
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As posted on the Zend Developer Zone: Company Blue State Digital Location Boston, MA Title PHP/AJAX developer for politcal/tech consulting Summary Blue State Digital is looking to add a highly skilled software developer to our growing Boston technology office. We have developed a large platform of web tools that we deploy for our clients. This person?s responsibilities will include adding to, enhancing, and maintaining various pieces of the platform as well as doing custom development projects for specific clients Link More Information |
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Ilia Alshanetsky has posted the announcement about the release of the latest Release Candidate for the upcoming PHP 5.2.x series PHP 5.2.1 RC3. Since the last release, there are over 20 different bug fixes resolving some annoying engine issues such as the tempval leak inside foreach(). We do not anticipate any regressions to be introduced by this RC, but I would still like to ask everyone to take a few minutes and test it against their code base. If you come across any issues please report them at http://bugs.php.net/.You can download these latest files here:Bzipped versionGzipped versionDepending on how stable things run with this release, it might be the last Release Candidate for the series. A final release might be coming soon so get out there and run those tests! |
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On his blog today, Alexander Netkachev has charted out some of the new functionality in the latest version (0.6.0) of the Zend Framework as pertaining to improvements in the Zend_Controller. Zend Framework 0.6.0 release comes with improvements in Zend_Controller area (new Zend_Controller_Request, Zend_Controller_Response classes, dispatch process improvements), which looks very promising. Dispatching process now better described and its parts (Zend_Controller_Router and Zend_Controller_Dispatcher) are replaceable.He also includes a diagram of how it's all laid out and a brief description of how each of these new pieces works. |
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As mentioned on Ilia Alshanetsky's blog today, the weekly summaries from Zend have returned. These weekly summaries look back at some of the happenings over the past week in the world of PHP everything from talk on the mailing lists and bugs that were reported out to some requests made from the PHP developers in the community. This latest summary (from Jan. 1, 2007) will give you an idea of how the issues will work. Of course, you can also go back in the archives and check out a bit of PHP history too. |
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