Today I decided to give php 5.3 a run on my laptop, in particular I was interested to test a closure for the case below.
First of all I am running tests on a fancy Linux Mint where there's no official 5.3 package for php so I took the 'compile way' following the clear instructions from Brandon (thanks!). It has been a while since I compiled php and I must say that debian pre-packaged libraries has made the task quite simple and panicless.
phpa is an interactive command line shell for PHP.
It is a replacement for the interactive mode of the PHP interpreter (php -a), hence the name.
Google launched their Google App Engine (GAE) a year ago. The free hosting in App Engine is allocated 500 MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million page views a month. Also, if you really want more you can see pricing plans.
GAE will support Java going forward. Unfortunately PHP support on the App Engine is still left as the top item in the wishlist.
Zend Technologies has built an application server for PHP that it hopes can slowly convert frustrated Java programmers as well as those relying on Java on the web and in the enterprise.
On Tuesday, the company is expected to unveil the Zend Server, a paid-for PHP stack that comes with service agreements and support and the free Zend Server Community Edition.
With the controllable jQuery Progress Bar, writing a form upload progress bar seems like a piece of cake now. Hypothetically, all we need is to create the bar, poll for the progress of the file upload, derive the new progress bar value (in percentage) and set it.
sNews is a completely free, standards compliant, PHP and MySQL driven Content Management System. sNews is extremely lightweight, simple and customizable. It's easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface. sNews consists of only one core engine file, one independent template file and its accompanying CSS stylesheet file, plus an .htaccess file that makes all URLs search engine friendly.
