Zend Framework available for download!

Posted on March 4, 2006 by Noah Dunker

Zend Framework is a high quality and open source framework for developing Web Applications and Web Services.

Built in the true PHP spirit, the Zend Framework delivers ease-of-use and powerful functionality. It provides solutions for building modern, robust, and secure websites.

http://framework.zend.com/

My-BIC – A PHP AJAX “State of Mind”

Posted on March 4, 2006 by Noah Dunker

“State of Mind” as opposed to a “framework”

Jim Plush, the guy behind My-BIC, has come up with some intuitive sample code and tutorials for harnessing the power of AJAX with PHP.

From the Readme:
My-Bic is a very simple concept, we keep javascript and PHP seperate instead of trying to mash them together. This concept allows you to use the client side framework with whatever backend language you choose.

See the My-BIC page for more info:
http://www.litfuel.net/mybic/

Yahoo Developer Network – PHP Development Center

Posted on February 26, 2006 by Noah Dunker

http://developer.yahoo.net/php/

Yahoo put together a nice site chock full of helpful code samples and applications to help PHP developers understand and use the Yahoo! ™ API.

Yahoo’s API provides developers with access to quite a bit of useful information. This site makes it pretty simple to understand how to unlock the potential.

February

Posted on February 21, 2006 by Dan

We had a nice round-table on security in February. While we used [url=http://safari.oreilly.com/?x=1&mode=section&sortKey=title&sortOrder=asc&view=&xmlid=1-56592-610-2/progphp-CHP-12&k=20&g=&catid=&s=1&b=1&f=1&t=1&c=1&u=1&r=&o=1&n=1&d=1&p=1&a=0&page=0]Chapter 12[/url] of O’Reilly’s [url=http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progphp/index.html]Programming PHP [/url]as a guide, Eric pointed out an [url=http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-security-blunders]article on SitePoint[/url] that you may also find to be very enlightening as well.

March should be even more Fun! Eric has offered to give us a presentation on the Eclipse IDE!! Thank you very much, Eric. Your next month’s coffee is on me!

Topic for February

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Dan

As many of you know, I almost didn’t have a presentation ready for last time. Now, I know I don’t [i]have[/i] to have one…but let’s face it, I enjoy giving them. (Just for the record, I enjoy [i]watching[/i] them as well. 😉 )

Many of you may be happy to hear that I have actually gotten to take a tiny break from management, and write my first bit of code in quite a while. Now, unless you would like our next presentation to be about transforming csv files with fgetcsv and vsprintf, I suggest you help me pick a topic.

Any topic will do. Selections will be made based on my ability to produce said presentation in the time alloted (which isn’t much). Naturally, any ties among viable options will be weighted based on community interest, etc.

Just to get you started, here are some ideas from the November meeting. Maybe, I just need a little detail on these to get going.

Thanks Gang! I’ll see you in February!

– Dan

[b]November Topic Ideas[/b]
SimpleXML Topics:
* Google Maps – For repeaters?
* Amazon API
* Google Base?
* Frappr
* Exce
* Shipping Interfaces FedEx

Other Topics may include:
* Cake, etc?
* Other Things, Hobbiest – General answers
* A search for a Customized, Integrated CMS.
* Application Authentication using Certificates
* Relationship Management, PHP/MySql OO PHP5
* Forms Managements

January 2006 :: SimpleXML

Posted on January 21, 2006 by Dan

It’s not quite done, but it will do. Today’s Presentation is a simple intro to [url=http://www.kcpug.org/doghouse/2006_jan/simple_xml.swf]SimpleXML[/url]. If you are using PHP 5 and need an easy way to get to your data, be sure and check it out.

While the presentation is lacking, at least I actually have [url=http://php5.kcpug.org/simplexml/]working examples[/url] for you to play with on the site! Be sure and check them out.