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PHP News #6
PHP news to August 13th, 2010.
- New Yii1.1 and PHP5 book. Sign of a framework reaching mass.
- PHP Code Browser 0.9 (beta) released. Visual analysis of your PHP code.
- Zend Framework 2 (2.0.0dev1). First development milestone released.
- Padraic Brady reviews some of the PHP based HTML sanitisers.
PHP News #5
PHP news to August 6th, 2010.
- New PHP drivers for for SQL Server released, under an Apache 2.0 license.
- Zend framework 1.10.7 released. Bug fixes including an update for Zend_Service_Twitter, as Twitter moves to OAuth.
- PHPNW conference on October 9 & 10, 2010 in Manchester, UK.
- New PHP Excel extension from Ilia Alshanetsky.
- Call for proposals at OSDC (Open Source Developers Conference) 2010 to be held in Melbourne, Australia from November 24th to 26th, 2010.
PHP News #4
News to July 30th, 2010. Slow week for new releases.
- ZendCon 2010. November 1 – 4, Santa Clara, CA. Early bird registration until August 28th.
- Zend Unlimited Subscription program for business that need unlimited number of subscriptions to Zend’s software and technical support services
- crVCL PHP Framework, rapid application development framework inspired by JEDI VCL and Java Spring
- RDSFramework, lightweight open source MVC framework
Evolving PHP Frameworks
There are no shortage of PHP frameworks, some grow large vibrant communities and a number wither and die over time. A number of the larger frameworks by user base have announced plans for the next steps in their evolution. Specifically we examine the next major versions of Zend Framework, Symfony, CodeIgniter and CakePHP.


