On the Zoomzum blog there's a new post with ten regular expressions PHP developers can use to accomplish some common tasks (like email validation and date formatting checks).Regular expression for the PHP developers, on of the most popular tool for validating data is the regular expression. In this list we provides some validation - string match, password match validation, email address validation, date format and many more which helps developer to make their application more fast and easy to execute....
Michelangelo van Dam has posted the latest in his "quality assurance in PHP projects" series today with a look at something that can make your life and documentation easier - PHPDocumentor.Unfortunately I've come across too many lines of code that were just lines of code, no comments or annotations provided. So, in best cases I could guess the types and parameters, but in many it was too obfuscated. I already talked about usage of a code sniffer like PHP_CodeSniffer in my previous post where you can...
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It goes without saying people should document their code so that after a few weeks, months, years they still know what they did initially and why. Besides providing a mental note in the code, it also helps your IDE to figure out what your class is all about, which parameters should be used with the methods and what their return types are.But theory is not always reality and unfortunately I've come across too many lines of code that were just lines of code, no comments or annotations provided. So, in best...
For those who haven't put the recurring event in their calendar, the Zend
Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday
(the 28th, 29th and 30th of June), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For
those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to
help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.
NetTuts.com has a new tutorial posted showing you some of the basics of uploading files via Ajax a bit more natively.I can't seem to reach the end of the fun stuff you can do with emerging web technologies. Today, I'm going to show you how to do something that-until the last while-has been almost unprecedented: uploading files via AJAX. Oh, sure, there have been hacks; but if you're like me, and feel dirty every time you type iframe, you're going to like this a lot.Their method won't work in every...
On the Leaseweb Labs blog there's a recent post looking and some of the things you can do to optimize Zend Framework and Doctrine when used together for database access.In principle, the combination of Zend Framework with Doctrine is not too difficult. But first let's talk about the preparations. According to the author of Zend Framework, the default file structure of project can be a bit more optimal.They start by describing this optimized file structure (moving the models out of the modules and into...
Pim Elshoff has a recent post to his blog looking at a "kickass development environment" he's gotten working on Windows that includes PEAR, some type of version control (git or svn - take your pick), Ant for builds and Jenkins for continuous integration.Recently I have become quite interested in quality assurance. Not that many things are going wrong for me, but I'd really like to be more certain about the quality of my work. I've used some tools to help me achieve just that. In less than two hours you...
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode - an interview with Derick Rethans, the author of the popular PHP debugger XDebug and a core contributor to the PHP project.Cal's questions mainly revolve around Derick's contributions the PHP core (and one on OpenStreetMap):
Do you consider the current way PHP is developed functional or broken (and why)?
What would you do to change the way PHP is developed and why would you want to do it that way?
Explain to us what OpenStreetMap and...
On the Liip blog there's a new post that compares some of the popular PHPDocumentor-formatted comments parsers. They're looking specifically at the support for interfaces, not just the usual classes and methods.The interfaces define the standard and are extensively documented. The implementation was built by copying the interfaces and implementing the methods. Now we have the documentation comments duplicated, which is a pain to maintain if we clarify or change anything in the interfaces documentation....
In a new post today Johannes Schluter talks about the upcoming version of PHP and three of the things it features: no more short tags, no more magic quotes and the dropping of the enable-zend-multibyte compile option.I was writing about PHP.next before, many things improved there meanwhile. Most notably we have a committed version number: The next PHP release will be called PHP 5.4. The topic I want to talk about today is "Improved application portability" which covers multiple small changes which aim at...
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GObject Introspection is one of the hidden jewels of the GNOME stack: you write a library in C or Vala, and it becomes automatically available to a wide variety of languages and runtimes, including Python, JavaScript, Java and Qt.
Now I would like to bring GObject Introspection to PHP. Why?For many years we in the Midgard community have been using GNOME infrastructure on the web server side, by building our persistence layer on top of GObjects, and providing D-Bus notifications when content changes. So...
In the PHP content repository, we have a set of interfaces and implementation classes of those interfaces. The interfaces define the standard and are extensively documented. The implementation was built by copying the interfaces and implementing the methods. Now we have the documentation comments duplicated, which is a pain to maintain if we clarify or change anything in the interfaces documentation. If this would be Java, we can rely on the documentation to inherit the main text, @param, @return and...
I was writing about PHP.next before, many things improved there meanwhile. Most notably we have a committed version number: The next PHP release will be called PHP 5.4. The topic I want to talk about today is "Improved application portability" which covers multiple small changes which aim at making it simpler for developers to write applications working on any PHP setup.
Separating from short_open_tags
PHP knows quite a few ways to separate PHP code from surrounding text (usually html), most...
In this quick post today Robert Basic shares a hint for using Xdebug together with Zend Framework unit tests to get effective results.I've spent this weekend hacking on some unit tests for ZendDojo and I ran into an issue where I need Xdebug to, well, debug. Note, that this is not for debugging a Zend Framework application, but for debugging Zend Framework itself. I am using Netbeans + Xdebug to debug regular code, but debugging unit tests was something completely new for me. Turns out, it's not entirely...
Rob Allen has posted his own guide to getting PHP 5.3 set up on OS X 10.7 Lion, the just-released update for Apple's operating system. It comes with a bundled set of PHP-related tools but you might want to set them up your own way. This is where the guide comes in.With OS X 10.7, Apple continues to ship PHP 5.3 with PEAR, GD and PDO_MYSQL out of the box. This is how to set it up from a clean install of 10.7.He goes through each of the pieces of software and talks about where to download the latest from...
Gonzalo Ayuso has an interesting new post today looking at how to go cross-technology in your application and store your PHP sessions in a basic Node.js instance.We use sessions when we want to preserve certain data across subsequent accesses. PHP allows us to use different handlers when we're using sessions. The default one is filesystem, but we can change it with session.save_handler in the php.ini. session.save_handler defines the name of the handler which is used for storing and retrieving data...
In this new post to his blog, Philip Norton reminds you about a handy feature of PHPUnit, the popular PHP unit testing tool, that can make generating tests for your application simpler - the skeleton class generator.If you create classes in PHP then you should be unit testing them as much as you can. Setting up unit testing classes for your code can be time consuming and involve a bunch of copying and pasting. Thankfully, PHPUnit comes with a couple of helper functions that allow the creation of unit...
On the Symfony blog Fabien Potencier has posted about the roadmap to a final release for the Symfony2 version of the popular framework including some of the things that will and will not change after the release.We are now ready to release Symfony 2.0 final. As we have made some significant changes in the last couple of weeks, we are publishing another release candidate (RC5) today and we will wait for a week before releasing Symfony 2.0 final on Thursday 28th.The upgrade to Symfony2 is just a few...
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