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PHP5: Coming Soon to a Web server Near You: A comprehensive look at the masterpiece that is PHP5. The author details all the changes with copious amounts of code to browse. Big changes are coming, including a complete revamp of XML handling that includes the ability to say, Make an ...

On PHP: Matt from WordPress fame gets all uppity on PHP5. Fast forward 3 more years and PHP 5 has been, from an adoption point of view, a complete flop. Most estimates place it in the single-digit percentages or at best the low teens, mostly gassed by marginal frameworks. Even ...

PHP 5 Adoption has Tipped!: The latest numbers from Zend on PHP5 adoption. In July over 74% of support tickets were by customers using PHP 5 (and remember we do support both versions). But is their analysis flawed? How accurately do support tickets indicate adoption, I wonder. Could it be ...

GoPHP5.org - helping speed the transition to PHP 5.2: On the heels of our WordPress/PHP5 discussion yesterday and the PHP end-of-life announcement, this site is trying to get everyone to abandon PHP4 and break backwards compatibility. Therefore, the listed software projects have all agreed that effective February 5th, 2008, any ...

Tidying up your HTML with PHP 5: The next version of PHP includes an extension for HTML Tidy, so you can have every HTML document perfectly formatted on its way out the door by applying HTML Tidy to the output buffer. When the Tidy extension is installed, it can be ...

Tidying up your HTML with PHP: This appears to be a PowerPoint converted to HTML, so the presentation is a little horrid, but the content is amazing. We've talked about HTML Tidy integration with PHP5 before, but this details here are fantastic. Yes, you know Tidy can make your HTML ...

The discipline of PHP: This is over a year old, but it's a nice rant on people who complain that PHP makes for messy code. [...] PHP doesn't dictate a development methodology (unlike Zope or J2EE); so it's entirely up to the developer whether he wants to be sloppy, or ...

dompdf - The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter: Someone mentioned this over in the post on Prince. It looks quite good -- they have a demo page where you can enter HTML in a box, then generate a PDF real-time. I tried it -- it respects all CSS and ...

SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine: I'm just tickled with this little program. I'm not a client applications programmer, but if I was... SQLite is a tiny, file-based database engine. The Windows exectuable is only 280KB and it's statically compiled, so it needs nothing else to run (read: no install). ...

PHP: Autoloading Objects: Something I always liked about COM was that you could register a DLL on the server and call it from code without having to reference a specific location -- it was just "out there" somewhere, and the server knew where to find it. With PHP4 and older, ...

Wasabi: In response to comments from his post yesterday (which we discussed), Joel has released information about Wasabi, which is a compiler they wrote so they code generate code for FogBugz in VBScript (for Windows) or PHP (for Linux). Fog Creek used to write in VBScript and automatically convert it ...

Qcodo - PHP Development Framework: I think you're going to see that phrase a lot in the future: "Rails for [insert language here]." I had heard that Cake was "Rails for PHP," but after watching some demos, I think the QCodo guys have actually obtained that title. It is a ...

What do you do with sites that need a single table of data updated? These are sites which are totally static, except for this one thing... For instance, we have a client for which we built a static site. But they have a page which lists all the locations where ...