In this quick post to his site Freek Van der Herten looks at the "unofficial Forge API" you can use to do some (limited) things with your Forge account and servers. Forge is a service in the Laravel ecosystem for managing and deploying servers with a simple and clean frontend interface.

You might not know this but Forge already has an API, it’s just not a documented and feature complete one. Open up your dev tools and inspect the web requests being sent while you do various stuff on Forge.

Marcel Pociot published a new package called Blacksmith (great name Marcel) that can make calls to that API.

The package submits a login form behind the scenes to authenticate but other than that it's normal API calls. The package includes methods allowing you to:

• get a list of all active servers
• return server by ID
• get the listing of sites
• update metadata
• get environment information

...among other things. You can find out more about the package in its GitHub repository.

In this quick post to his blog Arnold Daniels points out their patched version of the Suhosin hardening patch for PHP 5.3.

The hardened-php project has yet to release a suhosin patch for PHP 5.3.0. We’re already using PHP 5.3, therefore I’ve modified the 0.9.7 patch for 5.2.10 to work with 5.3.0.

The Suhosin patch, created by the Hardened-PHP project is a protection system aiming to help protect your PHP installation from some of the common (and not so common) flaws in the PHP language itself. It's applied as a patch to the source before compiling and gives you a list of features for the base engine, runtime, session and filtering protection.

Cristian Bichis sent along a message today reminding us about the unofficial Zend Framework forums that's been started over on zfforums.com:

This is the only forum dedicated to the Zend Framework (in English) and several users have already joined with lots of topics started including MVC, Zend_Db, Concepts related to the framework and Ideas about it and its future. So, join up yourself and talk with other Zend Framework developers at zfforums.com.

There's already some decent activity over there - around 120 members with over 350 posts going - not too bad considering they've just started up. Head on over, get yourself signed up and start participating in the discussion to help build these forums into a great resource for Zend Framework developers everywhere.

Cristian Bichis sent along a message today reminding us about the unofficial Zend Framework forums that's been started over on zfforums.com:

This is the only forum dedicated to the Zend Framework (in English) and several users have already joined with lots of topics started including MVC, Zend_Db, Concepts related to the framework and Ideas about it and its future. So, join up yourself and talk with other Zend Framework developers at zfforums.com.

There's already some decent activity over there - around 120 members with over 350 posts going - not too bad considering they've just started up. Head on over, get yourself signed up and start participating in the discussion to help build these forums into a great resource for Zend Framework developers everywhere.

As mentioned in this new post to the Zend Developer Zone, the Zend Framework has been set up on an "unofficial PEAR channel" you can install the popular framework from.

The author, Geoffrey, with some help from Arnaud Limbourg, has created a PEAR channel to use in installing Zend Framework. As with any PEAR channel, the first thing you have to do is tell PEAR to go "discover" the channel.

Cal gives the simple commands to get the process underway, showing both how to discover and install the framework from this new resource.

As mentioned in this new post to the Zend Developer Zone, the Zend Framework has been set up on an "unofficial PEAR channel" you can install the popular framework from.

The author, Geoffrey, with some help from Arnaud Limbourg, has created a PEAR channel to use in installing Zend Framework. As with any PEAR channel, the first thing you have to do is tell PEAR to go "discover" the channel.

Cal gives the simple commands to get the process underway, showing both how to discover and install the framework from this new resource.

According to this new post on the Zend Developer Zone today, Mike Potter from Adobe has announced an unofficial SDK linking PHP and the Adobe RIA technology for each application development.

Mike Potter our buddy over at Adobe, world class programmer and all around great guy, has announced his latest project The (unofficial) Adobe PHP SDK.

Cal also mentions some of the ways to help out and get involved with the SDK project including testing out the samples in the project and helping to improve the look of the samples already in the project.

You can get complete information about the SDK in this post from Mike's blog.

According to this new post on the Zend Developer Zone today, Mike Potter from Adobe has announced an unofficial SDK linking PHP and the Adobe RIA technology for each application development.

Mike Potter our buddy over at Adobe, world class programmer and all around great guy, has announced his latest project The (unofficial) Adobe PHP SDK.

Cal also mentions some of the ways to help out and get involved with the SDK project including testing out the samples in the project and helping to improve the look of the samples already in the project.

You can get complete information about the SDK in this post from Mike's blog.

The Cake Baker (Daniel Hofstetter) has a quick post about a little unofficial something that those working with the CakePHP framework might want to check out.

Something missed by a lot of people is now live: a forum for CakePHP. It is run by a CakePHP user named "kain". At the moment it is still empty and needs to be filled with activity.

The forum is already starting to fill up - not a lot, but it's a start. It uses the Vanilla software to run the site.

The Cake Baker (Daniel Hofstetter) has a quick post about a little unofficial something that those working with the CakePHP framework might want to check out.

Something missed by a lot of people is now live: a forum for CakePHP. It is run by a CakePHP user named "kain". At the moment it is still empty and needs to be filled with activity.

The forum is already starting to fill up - not a lot, but it's a start. It uses the Vanilla software to run the site.