PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 04:54:58 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Paul Jones: Aura: First 1.0.0 Stable Library Releases!]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18825 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18825 As Paul Jones mentions in this new post to his site, the Aura Framework project has just released it's 1.0 stable version of all of its packages. The Aura project provides independent library packages for PHP 5.4+. These packages can be used alone, in concert with each other, or combined into a full-stack framework of their own.

The Aura Project for PHP 5.4 is happy to announce its first release of 1.0.0 stable library packages. [...] In addition, we have initial beta releases of four new libarary packages. [...] While the above packages are completely independent of each other, Aura also has a Framework package that binds them all together.

Packages included in the v1.0 of the framework include Aura.Cli, Aura.Http and Aura.Signal. Beta packages are things like Aura.Filter and Aura.Intl.

You can find out more about the project from its site over on github.

]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:34:11 -0600 <![CDATA[Phil Sturgeon's Blog: Packages: The Way Forward for PHP]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17636 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17636 In this new post to his blog Phil Sturgeon talks about what he (and apparently several others) think is the "way forward for PHP" to make it a better language and ecosystem - packages.

What is a package? A package is a piece of reusable code that can be dropped into any application and be used without any tinkering to add functionality to that code. [...] Most package systems also allow for something called dependencies. [...] This is how most modern programming languages work, but to make a generalisation: PHP developers hate packages. Why? Well while other languages have great systems like CPAN for Perl, Gems for Ruby, PIP, PHP has had a terrible history with package management going back years.

He talks about one of the main current packaging systems, PEAR, and how, despite its attempts, it just hasn't seen the adoption the package management of other languages has. Phil makes a recommendation that is slowly becoming more and more popular in the PHP community - building "unframeworks". These sets of reusable components (similar to the ideas behind Aura, Symfony and Zend Framework 2) are designed to be dropped in and used without the dependencies of the frameworks they live in. He points to the Composer/Packagist dynamic duo as a way through all of the current packaging issues - a simple way to make any project an installable package just by adding a configuration file.

]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:29:57 -0600 <![CDATA[PHPClasses.org: Premium Services Offering]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8185 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8185 According to this new post on the PHPClasses.org blog today, they're launching some premium services for the users of the site:

It is with great pleasure that I announce that the PHP Classes site finally launched the premium services for PHP developers that use the site. [...] The premium subscriptions are the alternative that I found to make this site provide a pleasant user experience and hopefully provide useful features that can help making the life of PHP developers better.

He goes into detail on what all is involved in the premium subscriptions including:

  • No advertising
  • Own site search
  • Recorded searches
  • Notable packages
  • PHP Specialist forums

There's also several other services that are listed as "coming soon" to further enhance the site - customizable site design templates, new class wish lists, personalized bookmarks, etc. The cost for all of the premium services comes to $5 USD/month (with $15 USD due at a time because of restrictions on the payment gateway).

Another pair of interesting notes about the future of the site are mentions of revenue sharing for best contributors and the opportunity for free subscriptions.

You can get complete information about these premium services from its page on the PHPClasses.org website.

]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:31:00 -0500 <![CDATA[PHP Magazine: SuSE - New PHP Packages Fix XSS and Information Leak]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5337 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/5337 The SuSE linux group has released new packages, according to this post on the PHP Magazine site, to deal with the XSS and information leak issues found recently in PHP4 and PHP5.

A new update fixes security issues in the scripting languages PHP4 and PHP5 including a vulnerability in copy() and tempnam() functions that could bypass open_basedir restrictions, a cross-site-scripting (XSS) bug in phpinfo(), a vulnerability in mb_send_mail() that lacked safe_mode checks, and a bug in html_entity_decode() that could expose memory content. Fixed packages are available from ftp.suse.com.

It is strongly suggested that you upgrade your installation to prevent any issues/problems from arrising.

]]> Tue, 09 May 2006 06:30:34 -0500 <![CDATA[KillerSoft.com: Several New Pearified Packages]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4582 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4582 KillerSoft blog today, there's Pearified.com.

I rolled out several new Pearified.com packages last night and this morning. A brief summary of these updates:

  • Frontend packages switched to Role_Web usage
  • Prototype, script.aculo.us and Behaviour packages updated.
  • New Editors category added.
  • Icons, Icons, Icons.
  • Tooltip! (from Davey Shafik)

It's wonderful to see this resource thriving and becoming a real asset to not only the PEAR community but to the PHP community as a whole...]]> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:59:23 -0600