In Case You Missed It... The Week of May 16, 2005

by: Elizabeth Naramore

May 17, 2005

Let's see what's been happening the past week:

php|tropics Wrap-Up

Yet another fabulous PHP Conference that I was unable to attend has wrapped up, and you can get all the scoop from the speakers:

George Schlossnagle posted his slides from his talk on Web Services for PHP5 - They can be found on his blog at http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/.
John Coggleshall's Programming Smarty talk slides are available at: http://talks.coggeshall.org/show.php/smarty
Derick Rethans has posted slides from his three talks, Practical Debugging Techniques, Playing Safe: PHP and Encryption, and Clustering MySQL. They are available on his site: http://www.derickrethans.nl/talks.php.
Wez Furlong's PHP Data Objects and PHP Streams talks are available at: http://netevil.org/.

Free T-shirt from Zend

According to a blog post from John Coggleshall earlier in the week, Zend is giving away free t-shirts for evaluating the Zend Platform and filling out a survey. While there is nothing on the Zend site confirming this, you can read John's blog entry here: http://blog.coggeshall.org/archives/198_Want_a_free_PHP_T-shirt.html.

Another Bug Fix for phpBB

If you haven't upgraded to 2.0.14 yet, don't worry. There is now a 2.0.15 that includes one more bug fix. If you have already upgraded, you can make the quick change yourself. Details can be found at http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=290149.

PHP Advanced Transfer Manager Security Alert

If you're using this software, you should be aware of a recent alert from Secunia. A highly critical bug, which is yet unpatched, exists, preying on unvalidated file types. For more information, read the advisory from Secunia at http://secunia.com/advisories/15279/.

WordPress v. 1.5.1 Released

Developers of WordPress have announced the release of the latest in this popular blog software: version 1.5.1 is available for immediate download. Upgrades include bug fixes and a major security fix, as well as new API hooks and functionality. To read more about what's new, go to http://wordpress.org/development/.

George Schlossnagle Shows us WSDL from a PHP5 Class

There was an interesting blog entry from George Schlossnagle, which gives us a sneak peek to WSDL_Gen. This is basically a PHP5 class that generates WSDL (Web Services Description Language). Read more about this and download the class (still in Alpha state) at http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/234-WSDL-Generation.html or WSDL at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.

Open Source Event's PHP Security Conference Announced

This one-day fun-filled seminar touts some big names in PHP and Open Source Security: Bruce Perens, Chris Shiflett, Christian Wenz, Tom Robinson, and Chris Hubbard. Cost is $150, it will be held on June 11, 2005, and you can register or read more about it by going to http://store.osevents.com/product_info.php?products_id=1.

O'Reilly Announces the First Annual EuroOSCON

This conference will be held on October 17-20, 2005 in Amsterdam. If you think you know your stuff, the CFP comes with a May 23rd deadline. For more info, go to http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/eurooscon/create/e_sess (I wonder if they know that Zend's conference is October 18-21... interesting).

PEAR/PECL releases

Latest PEAR releases include:

Console_Getargs - A command-line arguments parser
Crypt_RSA - Provides RSA-like key generation, encryption/decryption, signing and signature checking
HTML_Progress - How to include a loading bar in your XHTML documents quickly and easily.
Mail_IMAPv2 - Provides a c-client backend for webmail.
Net_NNTP - Implementation of the NNTP protocol
PEAR_PackageFileManager_GUI_Gtk - A PHP-GTK frontend for the PEAR_PackageFileManager class.
PHPUnit - Regression testing framework for unit tests.
PHP_Compat - Provides missing functionality for older versions of PHP
XML_RPC - PHP implementation of the XML-RPC protocol

And at PECL were:

big_int - big_int library provides a set of functions for calculations with arbitrary length integers and bitsets
Xdebug - Provides functions for function traces and profiling
xdiff - File differences/patches.

As always, you can download or learn more about these packages at http://pear.php.net/ and http://pecl.php.net/.

See you next week with more news and tidbits from the PHP world!

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