Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

Zend and S&S support local PHP user groups, and will be providing a limited
number of free ZendCon passes for user groups to distribute to active members
who might not have the financial wherewithal otherwise.

The long awaited release of PHP 5.3 is finally here! Bask in the glory of all the new enhancements and go download it to start using it today!

Right along with some of the other posts about the “best practices” that Google “>recently post , the PHP group has also responded to dispel some of the recommendations Google gives.

I have just released a new version of my Symfony-Plugin sfAmfPlugin. The new version 1.4.0 has the following changes included:

• Added an error handler function. All Errors will now be delivered as an exception (thanks to raphox for this)
• Fixing problem with associative array values
• Updated SabreAmf to version 1.3.0
• Added correct content type support, you should now use the handleRequest method in your actions as shown in the documentation

You can now use the the plugin in your actions like this:

public function executeAmf(sfWebRequest $request) {

  sfAmfGateway::getInstance()->handleRequest();

  return sfView::NONE;

}

There is a lot of stuff coming for the next version of the plugin, so stay tuned

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The OXID shopping cart is built on an extensible, object-oriented PHP/MySQL architecture that makes it easy to “plug in” new modules and functions. One common function involves integration with third-party payment gateways, and the OXID platform provides various developer hooks to assist in this task. This article shows you how to begin accepting credit card payments for your products by writing a custom PHP module that reads credit card information from an OXID order basket and performs payment transactions using the Authorize.Net payment gateway.

The guys over at System Reference Documents have packaged up the D&D 3.5 SRD into a Zipped HTML package.  I put a copy of the D&D 3.5 SRD on this site.  Thanks guys!!!

Those familiar with configuring Apache and PHP to run together, have
been introduced to the idea of Apache’s Multi-Processing Modules ( MPM ).
Basically Apache2 allows you to use different methodologies in how it
manages the various connections coming in. One of the more efficient
methods uses threads; however, when running PHP you’ve been restricted
to using the prefork MPM module since some extensions are not written in
a way that will enable work in thread safe mode.

If one were to survey the extensions available in PHP one might come to the conclusion that we actually lived in a paperless society. However, we all know that isn’t true. So why does PHP not have good printer support? One option that explains why this might be the case is simply that printing documents is contrary to what PHP does well; handle short requests as quickly as possible. Printing is not conducive to this.

But what if you still need to have printing support in your PHP application? With Zend Server, Zend’s integrated PHP application stack, the answer might be not what you were expecting. Use the PHP Java Bridge, available in both the community and commercial editions of Zend Server.

php|architect has kicked off another webcast series starting June 26th with ten great content-packed episodes leading up to the CodeWorks conference that are completely free to attend!

The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
the 1.8.4 release. This release is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.8
series. Over 50 issues have been resolved for this release, covering 20
different components.