IBM developerWorks has just published the final part in our series on migrating a PHP application from MySQL to DB2. [...] In addition to sharing our own experience, the series highlights the number of resources available to you to carry out your own migration.

The series is broken up into four parts:

• Prepare for your migration
• Migrate your data
• Convert your PHP code
• Deploy your application

Learn how to build Web services in PHP using the PHP Development Tools plug-in in Eclipse Europa. Become familiar with the PDT project, and learn how to create and deploy useful PHP projects, learn about the philosophy behind contract-first development, and understand the basic parts that make up a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.

You'll have to register/sign in to get to it. They give an introduction to the PHP Development Tools for Eclipse, creating a WSDL file visually in the IDE and integrating it all to work with your Eclipse front-end.

We've just made our first release of SCA on the PECL repository. The code has been added into what was the SDO project and which has now been imaginatively renamed to SCA_SDO (you won't believe how much thought went into that...).

Main features include:

• inclusion of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) component
• new PEAR packaging to install SCA and SDO as peer directories (PEAR/SCA and PEAR/SDO)
• new function in SDO_DAS_Relational to support multiple root data objects
• new function in SDO_DAS_XML to support CDATA sections (not yet complete)

IBM DeveloperWorks has an article titled "Check your PHP code at every level with unit tests" that suggests unit tests for PHP code at the module, database, and user-interface levels and proposes IBM not only uses my software, but also advocates it.

You can find out complete information on PHPUnit from the project homepage and about unit testing from here.