A small set of PHP files to support using the Microsoft AJAX Library with PHP web applications. The current release supports creating web service proxies in PHP code such that the Microsoft AJAX Library (a free download from http://ajax.asp.net) can call them from client-side code. Future releases will support localization and globalization, debug and […]
By Trevor Johns, The Google data APIs team
The Google Apps Provisioning API allows Google Apps domain
administrators to manage users, their nicknames, and associated email lists. Now a new PHP client library for accessing version 2.0 of this API
is available.
The PHP client is being included as part of the recent release of the Zend
Framework 1.0.1 library. […]
Microsoft has committed to becoming a mixed ASP.NET and PHP shop for the “foreseeable” future should its proposed Yahoo! acquisition succeed, rather than convert popular services like Yahoo! mail to Microsoft’s .NET architecture.Chief executive Steve Ballmer confirmed, though, that overlapping online properties would be axed. Ballmer did not say what Microsoft ASP.NET or Yahoo! services […]
It’s no longer just a .NET or Java world when it comes to production-quality development frameworks — PHP is edging its way into developers’ affections. Now, the technology’s backers are planning further efforts to expand on its successes.
Zend, PHP’s lead commercial sponsor, plans Monday to release its eponymous Framework 1.5, the first major release since […]
It’s been an interesting few months for Zend, the commercial company behind the open source programming language PHP.
In the past few weeks, Zend has teamed up with Rackspace, a leading web hosting provider. It’s also signed an agreement with Ibuildings, an Anglo-Dutch software consultancy company, to provide training and support services in the UK. And […]
24 February 2008 – 5:43 PM
University computer science departments are rapidly becoming Microsoft-free zones, as Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) combine with Java to become the de-facto standard environment for students of programming.
Microsoft knows from history that this will be fatal in the long term, hence its decision to extend free availability of core development tools to students. Most […]
23 February 2008 – 11:57 AM
The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture provides a useful three-tier pattern for building software, as MVC patterns decouple the graphical user interface (GUI) from the application logic.
That comes in useful when it comes to changing an application after it has been deployed. Separation of the views from the data means modifications made in the views do […]
6 February 2008 – 9:06 PM
Lightbulb, an Open Web Single Sign-On (OpenSSO) subproject, aims to achieve federated identity for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, and Perl) and MARS (MySQL, Apache, Ruby, and the Solaris Operating System). Currently, Lightbulb offers a service provider (SP) written in PHP with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0. This article elaborates on the SP […]
25 January 2008 – 4:59 PM
Posted by: Martin Streicher (martin.streicher@gmail.com), Editor in Chief, McClatchy Interactive
Discover how to combine an enterprise-worthy search engine — Apache Software Foundation’s Solr — with your PHP application.
In “Build a custom search engine with PHP,” I combined PHP and the open source Sphinx search engine to create a blazing-fast alternative to text-intensive database queries, such as […]
The Java platform can be used to interpret more than just the Java language — it has expanded its coverage to include Ruby and Python, with PHP to follow shortly.
We sat down with Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network, and discussed Java’s move into scripting language interpretation in the first half of a two […]
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