Check out the [url=http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_976.html]MySQL 5.0 Release notes[/url] for more information.
While I was lucky enough to see the announcement of OpenOffice at OSCON a few years back, this week I missed what may one day become the NextBigThing for the PHP Community from Zend.
Sure, at the moment it is just an announcement. However, if anyone is going to be able to muster the open source [i]and[/i] big-business backing to actually pull off a decent/universal programming platform for PHP it would be Zend.
Good luck guys!
Also, be sure to check out some of the great information on the web:
The topic of WYSIWYG HTML Editors for Linux came up. While it isn’t WYSIWYG, [url=http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html]bluefish[/url] came to mind. We also thought of [url=http://nvu.com/screenshots.html]Nvu[/url], and it certainly looked full-featured.
This discussion lead us into a chat on CSS and web-standards based design. The websites [url=http://www.alistapart.com/]A List Apart[/url] (for info) and [url=http://www.csszengarden.com/]CSS Zend Garden[/url] (for inspiration) both came up. I also had to show off the [url=https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60]Web Developer Toolbar[/url] for Firefox…a web-coder’s best tool.
See you next month!
If you have been wanting to give your programming skills an object oriented upgrade but don’t really know where to take the plunge–go check out [url=http://books.slashdot.org/books/05/08/16/0434205.shtml?tid=169&tid=6]my review of PHP 5 Objects, Patterns and Practice[/url] from Apress.
There were others, but I don’t want to announce them here, unless you want to. You know who you are. 😉
Doug asked a question like “My clients need a CMS to edit simple websites, but they shouldn’t need to know any html, or anything.”
Helen suggested looking into DreamWeaver templates, as mostly his issue is providing a safty-net from his client’s own…creativity. We all agreed that this would be a good solution for many clients.
The lite section opensourcecms.com was also suggested as a place to look. After the meeting, I found cmsimple and sapid as possible candidates. Sapid looks really, really cool…and appears to be just downright perfect for this. Very clicky/sqishy…although the opensourcecms install is a little horked. Once you are logged in, just append ?mode=edit to the url of any page you want to switch into edit more. The edit button in the toolbar seems to be broken…but again, I’m sure it would work in your own install.
The best I could think of was using something like [url=http://www.dynarch.com/projects/htmlarea/]HTMLArea[/url], and let it post to a password-protected php script that would get the html and save the file.
So, say your user’s only saw mypage.php:
mypage.php
[code]
include(‘uploaded_page.inc’);
[/code]
Then, write up a simple php script…let’s call it uploader.php. It could draw a form using an html area. It should probably load the uploaded_page.inc file and put it in the html area.
On form submit, write the html-area into uploaded_page.inc.
This should naturally be password protected. You would also want to be careful not to let it write to any other page on your site, etc. But it should be fairly straightforward.
The topic of CSS came up as well. I’m a huge fan of it, and went on my pre-programmed rant of why it is a good thing. If you are interested, you may want to check on this handful of links:
I’m sure I have missed a ton of things. Feel free to add anything I missed, or any additional information as a comment.
See you all next month!!
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echo $dholmes->getStatusMessage();
echo $rholmes->getStatusMessage();
echo $selia->getStatusMessage();
?>[/code]
[b]Result[/b]…
Becky Holmes is doing quite well–thanks for asking.
Selia Avery Holmes is doing quite well. She has returned to her birthweight of 8 lbs and 6 oz and makes a lot of funny noises throughout the day and night. Additional information will be accessible following the activation of the NaturalLanguage composite extension.[/quote]