php[architect] Magazine has just published their latest issue for July 2016: Harnessing Magic. This latest issue features articles like:

• "RegEx is Your Friend" (Liam Wiltshire)
• "Removing the Magic with Functional PHP" (David Corona)
• "Implementing Cryptography" (Edward Barnard)
• "Reference Counting : The PDO Case Study" (Gabriel Zerbib)

There's also all of the usual columns from some of the regular authors, the "Education Station", "Community Corner" and the "Security Corner". If you're interested in the content but just want a sample, be sure to check out this month's free article covering mailing lists and MailChimp. You can pick up either just this issue or a full year subscription directly from the php[architect] website.

As Davey Shafik mentions in this post to his site, O'Reilly has just released a "mini-eBook" he's written up to help you migrate your current codebase up to PHP 7 compatibility.

Yesterday, O’Reilly published my report on Upgrading to PHP 7. This 80-page mini-eBook is available free (and DRM free) in ePub, Mobi, and PDF formats.

Grab it today or read more details here.

The book guides you through the updates and features that come along with PHP 7 including: "deprecated features, Unicode enhancements, changes in Object-Oriented programming, and other enhancements." You'll get more details on what to change to bring your code up to the level of PHP 7 and remove deprecated features and what to replace them with. The book is free so there's no reason not to pick up a copy and find out what the PHP 7 revolution is all about.

In this latest announcement on the Symfony blog they've announced the release of the full schedule for the upcoming SymfonyCon Madrid 2014 (happening near the end of November). The lineup includes:

• "Growing and managing communities for large Open Source projects" by Jen Lampton
• "Life After Assetic: State of the Art Symfony 2 Frontend Dev" by Michelle Sanver
• "Feature Flags with Symfony" by Benjamin Eberlei
• "The Twelve-Factor App: Best Practices for PHP on Platforms-as-a-Service" by David Zuelke
• "Implementing data synchronization API for mobile apps with Silex" by Michele Orselli

The event will also include a keynote from Fabien Potencier and close with a look at profiling in PHP from the same. You can find out more about the conference and pick up your own tickets on the main conference site.

Issue #8 of the (IN)Secure Magazine has been posted today and includes articles like:

• Payment Card Industry demystified
• Computer forensics vs. electronic evidence
• SSH port forwarding - security from two perspectives, part two
• Airscanner vulnerability summary: Windows Mobile security software fails the test
• Introducing the MySQL Sandbox

Check out insecuremag.com for more or just download the issue directly.

Issue #8 of the (IN)Secure Magazine has been posted today and includes articles like:

• Payment Card Industry demystified
• Computer forensics vs. electronic evidence
• SSH port forwarding - security from two perspectives, part two
• Airscanner vulnerability summary: Windows Mobile security software fails the test
• Introducing the MySQL Sandbox

Check out insecuremag.com for more or just download the issue directly.

The latest edition of php|architect magaizne has been published - the May 2006 Issue.

Featured in this month's edition are articles covering:

• database design
• PHP clustering on linux
• the use of the PEAR installer

And, of course, the cover article - a look at the XMLWriter package written by Rob Richards.

If you're not already a subscriber, there's two ways you can get in on all of the great PHP content the magazine has to offer. You can either purchase this single issue (for $3.49USD in PDF form) or you can just buy a yearly subscription for around $8.50 USD.

The latest edition of php|architect magaizne has been published - the May 2006 Issue.

Featured in this month's edition are articles covering:

• database design
• PHP clustering on linux
• the use of the PEAR installer

And, of course, the cover article - a look at the XMLWriter package written by Rob Richards.

If you're not already a subscriber, there's two ways you can get in on all of the great PHP content the magazine has to offer. You can either purchase this single issue (for $3.49USD in PDF form) or you can just buy a yearly subscription for around $8.50 USD.

In this quick note from DynamicWebPages today, there's information about the posting of the latest release candidate for the PHP 5.1.3 series by Ilia - PHP 5.1.3RC2.

This is the last release candidate before the final version is (planned to be) released this coming Thursday, April 6th. Any and all help is appreciated in testing this release, so take a quick trip to Ilia's page to grab the source, and for those on Windows, the latest binaries.

In this quick note from DynamicWebPages today, there's information about the posting of the latest release candidate for the PHP 5.1.3 series by Ilia - PHP 5.1.3RC2.

This is the last release candidate before the final version is (planned to be) released this coming Thursday, April 6th. Any and all help is appreciated in testing this release, so take a quick trip to Ilia's page to grab the source, and for those on Windows, the latest binaries.

Hot on the heels of the original Preview Release of their framework, Zend has released their latest version - Zend Framework Preview 0.1.2.

Not even a week past our initial release and we have already updated the preview thanks to many great emails and especially our growing community on the mailing list. This release includes bug fixes, the unit test suite, and additional documentation.

The response from the our first release was overwhelmingly positive and we're upgrading our servers to cover the demand so we can open the Subversion repository shortly -- we expected the demand to be high but it exceeded even our expectations. The response from the community has been amazing with several new contributors signing on to submit code and new proposals on the table. This will be the first of many frequent updates on the road to 1.0. Please see the changelog included with the new download and enjoy the release!

Some improvements that have been made in this latest release include:

• the inclusion of a unit test suite
• documentation for the Zend_controller
• updates to the coding standards
• fixes to the Zend_Filter methods
• and several others...

You can download this latest release from the Zend Framework site. You can also check out this post on Mike Naberezny's blog for more info.