PHP Update March 2008
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The first in a likely series of short talks about the latest goings-on in the world of PHP.
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[edit] PHP Update March 2008
What's happened so far this year in PHP-world? by Dave Nattriss
[edit] PHP 4.4.8
- released 03/01/08
- security and stability patches
- 'the last normal PHP 4.4 release'
- no more security patches after 08/08/08
see: http://www.php.net
[edit] wiki.php.net
- PHP development wiki
- only updatable by those with access to the PHP CVS
- fairly sparse so far, but likely to grow (as wikis should)!
see: http://wiki.php.net
[edit] PHP stats February 2008
- used on 33.42% of websites (31% in UK)
- 67.63% of those still using PHP 4 (73% in UK)
- only 8% using PHP 5.2.5 (latest version, release 08/11/07), which is 23.65% of all PHP 5 installations
- most prevalent in small countries (servers with TLDs of small countries)
- Facebook claim to be the second largest website using PHP, Yahoo are first
see: http://www.nexen.net/chiffres_cles/phpversion/
[edit] PEAR has a ReST
- PHP Extension and Application Repository
- as of 01/03/08 uses ReSTful information-serving
- XML-RPC now disabled
- PEAR 1.4.0 now required
- entrypoint is [1] (have a nosey!)
see: http://pear.php.net
[edit] Sun buying MySQL AB
- announced 16/01/08
- sale was for ~$1,000,000,000!
- MySQL AB is the for-profit company that owns most of the MySQL codebase
- Sun Microsystems is a vendor of computer hardware (ex. SPARC processors), software (Solaris and Java) and IT services (storage and hosting)
see: http://www.mysql.com http://www.sun.com
[edit] PHPMyAdmin 2.11.5
- bugfix, released 01/03/08
- 2.11.0, released 22/08/07
- supports creating VIEWs from query results
- can manage triggers, procedures and functions
- supports MySQL 5.0.37 query profiling
- improved interface for servers hosting thousands of databases and tables
See: http://www.phpmyadmin.net
[edit] Useful resources
- http://c7y.phparch.com PHP community site with news, articles, podcasts and forums
- http://www.phparch.com PHP Architect magazine (PDF and print)
- http://www.funcaday.com daily PHP function calendar
- http://www.phplondon.org/feeds OPML list of useful feeds, import into your Feed reader
[edit] Anything missing?
Let me know!
This talk was given by Dave Nattriss on March 6th 2008
