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In Case You Missed It... The Week of June 6th, 2005
Elizabeth Naramore
This week we saw:
FlexySvn-0.1 Officially Released
Alan Knowles has officially released his FlexySvn, and you can see it in action by going to http://newweb.akbkhome.com/svn.php. For the download itself and to read installation instructions, visit Alan's blog at http://www.akbkhome.com/blog.php/View/90/FlexySvn+packaged+and+released.html.
"Call for Papers" Times Two
If you haven't seen this on php.net, there are two conferences to be held in November that have issued the Call for Papers: the AFUP (Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP), which has more info available at http://www.afup.org/article.php3?id_article=283 and the International PHP Conference 2005, which will eventually have more info available at http://www.phpconference.com/. So send in your ideas and we'll see you there.
Randomly Shuffle your Netflix Queue
Thanks to Andrei Zmievski, you can now randomly shuffle your Netflix Queue with a little script he drummed up in his spare time. Check it out by going to http://www.gravitonic.com/software/other/#NetflixQueueShuffler.
eZ publish 3.6 Released
Derick Rethans announced the release of the open source CMS, eZ publish v. 3.6 in a recent blog post. Some new features include: static caching of content, support for transactions in databases, real preview of content before publishing, improved template syntax, and improved support for internal links. To download or see an online demo, go to http://ez.no/community/news/ez_publish_3_6.
Security Vulnerability in phpCMS Prompts v 1.2.1pl2 Release
This latest version of phpCMS includes an important security patch, and all users are encouraged to download the newest version. More information about the vulnerability can be found at: http://secunia.com/advisories/15586/ and you can download the security fix at http://www.phpcms.de/download/index.en.html.
PEAR/PECL releases
I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't include what's new at PEAR and PECL. Recent PEAR releases include:
  • DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - Class to automatically build HTML_QuickForm objects from a DB_DataObject-derived class
  • File_Archive - File_Archive will let you manipulate easily the tar, gz, tgz, bz2, tbz, zip, ar (or deb) files
  • File_Find - A Class the facillitates the search of filesystems
  • File_Fstab - Read and write fstab files
  • Image_Barcode - Barcode generation
  • Pager - Data paging class
  • PHPUnit2 - Regression testing framework for unit tests.
  • Services_Ebay - Interface to eBay's XML-API.
  • Services_Yahoo - Provides access to the Yahoo! Web Services
  • SOAP - SOAP Client/Server for PHP
  • XML_Serializer - Creates XML files from data structures and vice versa.

And at PECL:

  • pecl_http - Extended HTTP support
  • runkit - allows you to replace, rename, and remove user defined functions and classes, define customized superglobal variables for general purpose use, and execute code in restricted environment (sandboxing).
  • zeroconf - A PHP interface for browsing network services using ZeroConf

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!