Mike Potter is happy to announce that Adobe is officially a "Gold Sponsor" of the upcoming Zend/PHP Conference & Expo as well as a mention of his involvement at the conference.

I'm happy to announce that Adobe will be sponsoring the Zend / PHP Conference and Expo in San Jose in late October. I have a speaking session there on Rich Internet Applications, and we'll have a booth where we'll be showing off integrating PHP, using open source tools such as AMFPHP or WebORB from the Midnight Coders.

He also reminds potential conference-goers that the Early Bird discount is still in effect (until September 15th - just two more days!) to get the dicsounted price. Head over and register today!

Mike Potter is happy to announce that Adobe is officially a "Gold Sponsor" of the upcoming Zend/PHP Conference & Expo as well as a mention of his involvement at the conference.

I'm happy to announce that Adobe will be sponsoring the Zend / PHP Conference and Expo in San Jose in late October. I have a speaking session there on Rich Internet Applications, and we'll have a booth where we'll be showing off integrating PHP, using open source tools such as AMFPHP or WebORB from the Midnight Coders.

He also reminds potential conference-goers that the Early Bird discount is still in effect (until September 15th - just two more days!) to get the dicsounted price. Head over and register today!

In another report from this year's O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Kevin Yank has covered Rasmus Lerdorf's talk - "Getting Rich with PHP 5" - a look at building rich web applications in PHP5.

PHP's creator, Rasmus Lerdorf, gave a surprising talk on building PHP rich web applications using PHP5—suprising, because fully half the talk focused on low-level PHP optimization techniques. The slides are available online.

Kevin gives an overview of the talk, mentioning some of Rasmus' examples, the bottlenecks he defined, and the time spent on the new functionality in the PHP 5 series.

In another report from this year's O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Kevin Yank has covered Rasmus Lerdorf's talk - "Getting Rich with PHP 5" - a look at building rich web applications in PHP5.

PHP's creator, Rasmus Lerdorf, gave a surprising talk on building PHP rich web applications using PHP5—suprising, because fully half the talk focused on low-level PHP optimization techniques. The slides are available online.

Kevin gives an overview of the talk, mentioning some of Rasmus' examples, the bottlenecks he defined, and the time spent on the new functionality in the PHP 5 series.

From php|architect's ART article repository today, there's part two in the series following the creation of "rich internet applications" with PHP and that ever-helpful Adobe product line, their Flex products. This time, they look at how the the AMFPHP (flash remoting for PHP) library can make the connection even easier.

They start with links to the downloads for AMFPHP, and mention to "just follow the instructions" to get it set up. They provide a "create database" string to feed into MySQL before getting into the actual code for the application. The functionality grabs the list of users from the database table and stores it where the Flex interface can get to it.

The next step - generating the interface - is a simple one. They provide the code to cut and paste in to display all of the information the previous script had pulled out (in a datagrid).

Finally, they pull it all together, using the AMFPHP library to bridge the gap between the PHP script and the Flex interface, pushing the data into the Flex application.

From php|architect's ART article repository today, there's part two in the series following the creation of "rich internet applications" with PHP and that ever-helpful Adobe product line, their Flex products. This time, they look at how the the AMFPHP (flash remoting for PHP) library can make the connection even easier.

They start with links to the downloads for AMFPHP, and mention to "just follow the instructions" to get it set up. They provide a "create database" string to feed into MySQL before getting into the actual code for the application. The functionality grabs the list of users from the database table and stores it where the Flex interface can get to it.

The next step - generating the interface - is a simple one. They provide the code to cut and paste in to display all of the information the previous script had pulled out (in a datagrid).

Finally, they pull it all together, using the AMFPHP library to bridge the gap between the PHP script and the Flex interface, pushing the data into the Flex application.

On php|architect's ART (article repository) today, there's two new articles posted - one dealing with a popular PHP framework (that just reached the version 1.0 milestone recently) and another covering a second look at building applications with Flex.

• The first article gives a general overview of the CakePHP framework - what it is, what it has to offer, and even some simple examples of how it's all structured.
• The second article is part two of the "Rich Internet Applications with PHP and Flex" series that was started here. This time, they focus on passing data back and forth between the PHP application and the Flex side of things without the use of XML (which has to be parsed and interpreted on both sides to do anything useful.

On php|architect's ART (article repository) today, there's two new articles posted - one dealing with a popular PHP framework (that just reached the version 1.0 milestone recently) and another covering a second look at building applications with Flex.

• The first article gives a general overview of the CakePHP framework - what it is, what it has to offer, and even some simple examples of how it's all structured.
• The second article is part two of the "Rich Internet Applications with PHP and Flex" series that was started here. This time, they focus on passing data back and forth between the PHP application and the Flex side of things without the use of XML (which has to be parsed and interpreted on both sides to do anything useful.