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“In a new posting from the PHPBlog: Dynamically Typed, there’s an interesting idea presented - Serializing PHP data structures for Javascript.”

[PHPDeveloper.org]

“MailFeed ist ein PHP-Script, dass POP3, IMAP oder NNTP Postfächer on demand liest und einen RSS 2.0-Feed mit den dort lagernden Nachrichten ausgibt.
Er unterstützt dabei auch SSL und TLS für sichere Verbindungen sowie multipart MIME-Nachrichten.
Das Script läuft ab der PHP-Version 4.3.4 mit der PHP IMAP Extention und dem PEAR Mail_Mime Paket.”

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[RSS-Info]

If you’re looking for more info about what’s new in PEAR and PECL, or if you’re looking for more info about what PEAR and PECL are, this article might be helpful to you. Zend.com have written a PHP weekly review telling about all the new additions to PEAR and PECL. [full article at PHPDeveloper.org]

In the spirit of release early, release often here is the second and hopefully the final release candidate of PHP 4.3.6. This release addresses 2 major bugs introduced in the 4.3.5 release. One of these bugs caused problems when loading dynamic extensions on Windows and thread-safe (ZTS) builds and the other involves incorrect handling of daylight savings time. A few other minor bugs were fixed as well. [PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor]

LDAP (leightweight directory access protocol) wird für die zentrale Verwaltung von Benutzeraccounts eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Nicht nur können die Zugänge zu Systemen innerhalb einer Institution mit LDAP verwaltet werden, auch die Authentifizierung in WWW-Bereiche läßt sich damit kontrollieren. Das Tutorial führt ein in die Verwendung von LDAP mit PHP. [dbw News]

Zend has released a new product for anyone that’s ever tried to run PHP on a Windows platform - the Zend WenEnabler. [PHPDeveloper.org]

PHP 5 and the integrated Zend Engine 2 have greatly improved PHP’s performance and capabilities, but great care has been taken to break as little existing code as possible. So migrating your code from PHP 4 to 5 should be very easy. Most existing PHP 4 code should be ready to run without changes, but you should still know about the few differences and take care to test your code before switching versions in production environments. — Nuno Lopes

Andi Gutman points this out:

>Paragraph: Classes must be declared before used
>is no longer true. For most cases this is allowed now.

To be accurate, we solved the BC issue but for people who want to use the
PHP 5 features (such as implementing interfaces), they will have to declare
the class before using it.

[PHP Everywhere]

“PHP library outputs XUL tags” >> [article at Neil’s Place]

“Freundliche Rezension von PHP und MySQL für Kids auf CSS-Technik. Ein »anspruchsvolles Einsteigerbuch für PHP-Anfänger jeden Alters«.”
[full article at segert.net weblog]

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