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In Case You Missed It... The Week of February 6, 2006

PHP Vikinger Conference Announced

Zak Greant announced that eZsystems will be sponsoring an informal coding conference on June 24025 in Skien, Norway. Registration is a mere €20 and all fees will be donated to "Free Software and Free Culture organizations". The schedule is open, and similar to Foo Camp, and with attendees already booked such as Christopher Kunz , Ilia Alshanetsky , Marcus Boerger , Rasmus Lerdorf, a good time will be sure to be held by all. Visit Zak's blog for more info and don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity (http://zak.greant.com/2006/02/php-vikinger.html)

New Coding Contest at PHP-Editors.com

If you know anything about Texas Holdem and PHP, then it just might be your lucky day. PHP-Editors.com is sponsoring a new coding contest to determine the best "Texas Holdem" script. Deadline is March 1, 2006, and the first prize is a new edition of NuSphere's PHPEd. For complete rules and details of the contest, go to http://www.php-editors.com/contests_10.php

Recently Published PHP Books

Just to keep you on the cutting edge, here are some PHP books that have recently been published:

Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition by W. Jason Gilmore
Zend Studio Handbook : The Official Guide for PHP Developers by by Rock Mutchler, Michael B. Naberezny, Benjamin Weigand
PHP Programming with MySQL by Don Gosselin
Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8 by David Powers
Pro PHP 5 by Marcus Whitney
PHP Hacks : Tips & Tools For Creating Dynamic Websites by Jack Herrington

And coming soon to a bookseller near you:

Hackish PHP Pranks & Tricks by Michael Flenoy
Easy Oracle PHP : Create Dynamic Web Pages with Oracle Data by Mladen Gogala, Donald Burleson (Editor)
Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional by W. Jason Gilmore, Robert Treat
PHP For Teens by Maneesh Sethi

Add Luke Welling to Your Blogroll

The popular author and PHP guru has finally succumbed and started his own blog. You can check out "Some Guy Ranting" at http://www.lukewelling.com.

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:

Text_Diff 0.2.1 - Engine for performing and rendering text diffs
Math_Numerical_RootFinding 1.0.0 - Numerical Methods Root-Finding collection package
MDB2_Driver_ibase 0.2.2 - ibase MDB2 driver
MDB2_Schema 0.4.3 - XML based database schema manager
MDB2_Driver_sqlite 0.2.4 - sqlite MDB2 driver
MDB2_Driver_querysim 0.2.1 - querysim MDB2 driver
MDB2_Driver_pgsql 0.2.4 - pgsql MDB2 driver
MDB2_Driver_oci8 0.2.4 - oci8 MDB2 driver
MDB2_Driver_mysqli 0.2.4 - mysqli MDB2 driver
MDB2_Driver_mysql 0.2.4 - mysql MDB2 driver
Cache_Lite 1.7.0beta2 - Fast and Safe little cache system
Text_Highlighter 0.6.8 - Syntax highlighting
Pager 2.3.6 - Data paging class
File_Find 1.2.1 - A Class that facilitates the search of filesystems
SOAP 0.9.3 - SOAP Client/Server for PHP
File_XSPF 0.2.0 - Package for Manipulating XSPF Playlists
Net_DNS 1.0.0RC4 - Resolver library used to communicate with a DNS server.
Net_UserAgent_Mobile 0.26.0 - HTTP mobile user agent string parser
HTML_AJAX 0.3.4 - PHP and JavaScript AJAX library

And for PECL, we had:

pecl_http 0.22.0 - Extended HTTP Support
memcache 2.0.1 - memcached extension
timezonedb 2006.1 - Timezone Database to be used with PHP's date and time functions

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 tidbits from the PHP world!