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PHP London 2007

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

The PHP London user group just announced PHP London 2007 conference. Tickets are just £50, and speakers are Rasmus Lerdorf, Cal Evans, the editor of Zend DevZone, Kevlin Henney and Simon Laws, the lead on PHP’s new SCA_SDO extension.

Looks like it should be a good conference and I hope to see you there (-:

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Top 5 PHP Tools

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Justin Silverton has a list up of his top 5 PHP tools and the comments on his page are quite disparaging.

I thought I’d just drop my current favourite 5 PHP tools.

  • XDebug is an awesome PECL extension which gives you a bunch of debugging and profile tools – it takes a lot less setup than PHP for Eclipse or the ZDE debugger/profiler too
  • Waterproof Softwares phpCodeBeautifier is pretty handy for tidying up that incredibly messy code you’ve just inherited.
  • My choice of (nearly) free windows text editor goes to Edit+, which is pretty neat for all sorts of code stuff – it has regex support too which is neat. For the most part I use the Zend Development Environment though.
  • Savant is one of the most sensible PHP templating systems availiable – as it uses PHP as a templating language, instead of some ugly pseudo code PoS. Its pretty lightweight, and distributed as a PEAR package. It’s even being reworked for PHP5 now too.
  • My final PHP tool is written in Python. Trac is just about the best issue tracking/wiki/project management/repository browsing tool availiable. If you havent moved to Subversion yet – then Horde’s Chora project is an acceptable repository browser, but doesn’t have half the neat stuff trac has.

Hope these tools help you as much as they have helped me :)

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Extending and Embedding PHP

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Extending and Embedding PHP coverMy copy of Sara Goleman’s ‘Extending and Embedding PHP‘ arrived today from amazon \o/

Been looking forward to getting hold of this book for some time. Increasing the functionality of PHP through extensions is one of the coolest things you can do with PHP, and its also one of the most important – for the further development and continual improvement of PHP.

I know that I’m not alone in the wait for this book :)

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