The latest issue of php|architect magazine has been released today - the March 2007 edition. Articles in this month's issue include:

• A look at Pluggable Authentication Modules by Mikael Johansson
• Jonathan Stark's review of FileMaker for PHP Developers: Part 2
• a look at the Active Record pattern in PHP from Dirk Merkel
• and the two usual columns from Ilia Alshanetsky (Security Corner) and Jeff Moore (Test Pattern).

Check out the details on these and the rest of the great articles in the issue here where you can also buy either just a copy of this issue or subscribe and get a full year of PHP goodness from php|architect.

The latest issue of php|architect magazine has been released today - the March 2007 edition. Articles in this month's issue include:

• A look at Pluggable Authentication Modules by Mikael Johansson
• Jonathan Stark's review of FileMaker for PHP Developers: Part 2
• a look at the Active Record pattern in PHP from Dirk Merkel
• and the two usual columns from Ilia Alshanetsky (Security Corner) and Jeff Moore (Test Pattern).

Check out the details on these and the rest of the great articles in the issue here where you can also buy either just a copy of this issue or subscribe and get a full year of PHP goodness from php|architect.

php|architect's Pro::PHP Podcast has posted their interview with Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone on their site (as recorded live last Friday):

Uh Oh.... time to chat with the chattiest character in the PHP blogosphere, formerly the roving reporter and now Editor of Zend's Dev Zone, Cal Evans. Cal's got a lot to talk about too. Zend Framework progress, PHP5 Certification, a couple of conferences he'll be at this year and PHP's FileMaker pro support?!?

You can grab it directly here and have a listen. Also, be sure to check out the upcoming show with the latest news in all things PHP with Marcus and Sean.

php|architect's Pro::PHP Podcast has posted their interview with Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone on their site (as recorded live last Friday):

Uh Oh.... time to chat with the chattiest character in the PHP blogosphere, formerly the roving reporter and now Editor of Zend's Dev Zone, Cal Evans. Cal's got a lot to talk about too. Zend Framework progress, PHP5 Certification, a couple of conferences he'll be at this year and PHP's FileMaker pro support?!?

You can grab it directly here and have a listen. Also, be sure to check out the upcoming show with the latest news in all things PHP with Marcus and Sean.

According to this new article from Application Development Trends today, a collaboration has been formed between FileMaker users familiar with PHP and Zend to create a new kind of API to the FileMaker system.

FileMaker's senior product manager Kevin Nathanson says that FileMaker is addressing two audiences with the API beta: existing users of the company's database software, and PHP developers looking for simpler database software than DBMSs such as MySQL.

In fact, developers have been interested in connecting this everyman database software with the popular embedded scripting language for some time, and FileMaker's PHP API has a predecessor: FX.php, an independently developed, open-source PHP class designed to pull data from FileMaker Pro using the XML output by Server Advanced for FileMaker 7 or the Web Companion for FileMaker 5 and 6.

Developers are reminded that the library is still in a beta format and that constant work is being done to enhance its functionality. You can get complete information about the library here.

According to this new article from Application Development Trends today, a collaboration has been formed between FileMaker users familiar with PHP and Zend to create a new kind of API to the FileMaker system.

FileMaker's senior product manager Kevin Nathanson says that FileMaker is addressing two audiences with the API beta: existing users of the company's database software, and PHP developers looking for simpler database software than DBMSs such as MySQL.

In fact, developers have been interested in connecting this everyman database software with the popular embedded scripting language for some time, and FileMaker's PHP API has a predecessor: FX.php, an independently developed, open-source PHP class designed to pull data from FileMaker Pro using the XML output by Server Advanced for FileMaker 7 or the Web Companion for FileMaker 5 and 6.

Developers are reminded that the library is still in a beta format and that constant work is being done to enhance its functionality. You can get complete information about the library here.