PHP Developer News
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
PHP News #3
PHP developer news for week ending July 23rd, 2010.
- PHP 5.2.14 released. Bug & security release and the end of active support for the 5.2 line.
- PHP 5.3.3 released. Over 100 fixes with a number of security enhancements.
- CakePHP 1.3.3 rainbow icing edition released.
- Phalanx PHP Framework. Event driven PHP5.3+ framework.
Conferences
- CodeIgniter Con 2010. August 14 & 15, Bristol UK.
- Symfony day. October 8th, 2010 in Cologne, Germany.
- indieconf. Conference for independent web professionals. November 13, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
PHP News #2
PHP developer news for week ending July 16th, 2010.
- PHP For Android (PFA). Use your PHP skills on an Android device.
- CouchDB the document-oriented, Non-Relational Database Management Server (NRDBMS) goes 1.0.
- WebMatrix. Microsoft making it easier to install PHP apps on Windows.
- A new book – Pro PHP Refactoring from Apress.
- Swiftlet. Another lightweight MVC style framework for PHP 5.1+. Actually has some documentation.
PHP News #1
Recent PHP news to July 9, 2010.
- Early release of Wibble for HTML/XML Sanitisation
- PHPKetchup. Survey for developers interested in creating PHP based desktop applications.
- Yii framework releases version 1.1.3 with bug fixes and enhancements.
- Entropy, another PHP framework.
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PHP and Google Summer of Code
It is coming to that time of year again for the Google Summer of Code, which allows students to gain real experience in a living breathing software project. PHP will be invloved again, and a list of ideas is being gathered.
PHP 5.2.9 released
A new version of PHP is now available 5.2.9. It is a mix of security and bug fixes.
This has been followed by a special release for Windows users of version 5.2.9-1 which has a fix for a security issue in the cURL library.
QPHP framework becomes PHP Work
The QPHP framework has had a name change and is now PHP Work framework. From the site, it is an MVC framework, that helps you build php-based websites in a very fast, reliable, safe and well-organized way. The PHP Work framework has related frameworks for Java and Flash.


