Zend, Microsoft, IBM join forces to simplify cloud-app devlopment for PHP coders | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

As this article says all the right buzzwords are part of a newly unveiled Simple API for Cloud Application Services. It’s an open-source initiative that currently includes Zend, Microsoft, IBM, Nirvanix, Rackspace and GoGrid as the founding members. (No Google and no Amazon, however.)  Here you can read more : Zend, Microsoft, IBM join forces to simplify cloud-app devlopment for PHP coders | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com.

A Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system for PHP

Anyone, that has searched the web for anything related to PHP,  sooner or later must have come accross the web site of  Tony Marston. It is very rich source of ideas and information, and it is worth visiting any time you have a moment to spear. One of the topics that web developers tackle often is the issue of  providing accurate and flexible access to the web site users. One way to do this is by using RBAC or Role-Based Access Control system. This system is most ofter implemented with a database, but this is not a requirement. Recently I looked again at one of  Tony Marston’s articles about RBAC implementation for PHP and I thought, I share the link with you. I hope it will help or inspire somebody. Enjoy!

Modular applications in ZF 1.8

OK, so you jumped ahead and upgraded to Zend Framework 1.8. What now? One of the new features, that came along with this new release, was the possibility of individual module bootstaping. Or.. does it? If you find the whole thing about module bootstraping confusing, read this blog post and may be it will become a little bit clearer. It was for me. Let us know how you did. Happy coding!

Have you made the jump to Zend Framework 1.8?

Over the weekend I  have finally made the jump to 1.8. There, of course, are few changes in this new version, some of the most significant is the introduction of Zend_Application and Zend_Tool. Several blog posts helped me along the way, but I should be honest with you, it took me a good number of hours to assimilate the new “Bootstrap.php” paradigm and move my project to the the new way of doing bootstrapping. If you are starting new project, take a look at this clrean writeup. I, however, was not starting a new project and needed something that will accomodate a modular directory structure. A good start was this blog post. I hope this two links will help somebody to make the jump to the new Zend Framework version less painfull.

Phing

One of the best Phing resources I have come across is the blog of Raphael Stolt. I have used Phing based scripts for backup and code generation, but that is not all you can do with it. As Raphael is showing in its blog, you can use it for unit testing, phplocing (see my post on phploc), refactoring, code sniffing, database generation and so on.

phploc

phploc is cool tool, by Sebastian Bergmann, to check the size of your php project. You can install it with PEAR. The short version of the installation goes like this:

// add PEAR channel
user@host ~ % pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
// install phploc
user@host ~ % pear install phpunit/phploc
// run
user@host ~ % phploc /path/to/your/project/code/folder

For more detailed instructions and system requirements, here is the link.

Now we are going to play a little honesty game:
Run the tool against your php project library code

[user@host] phploc ./library/Zend/
phploc 1.0.0 by Sebastian Bergmann.
Directories: 285
Files: 1372
Lines of Code (LOC): 275436
Comment Lines of Code (CLOC): 130251
Non-Comment Lines of Code (NCLOC): 145185
Interfaces: 53
Classes: 1321
Functions/Methods: 9170

 Run the tool against your php project own code:

[user@host] phploc ./my_application/my_modules/
phploc 1.0.0 by Sebastian Bergmann.
Directories: 30
Files: 85
Lines of Code (LOC): 6644
Comment Lines of Code (CLOC): 580
Non-Comment Lines of Code (NCLOC): 6064
Interfaces: 0
Classes: 94
Functions/Methods: 284

Now calculate the percentage of your code vs. your favorite framework library codepercentage = my_code_NCLOC/my_library_NCLOC*100in my case the result is 4.17% !!! :) How about in your project?

Andi Gutmans on working with Microsoft & Improving PHP on Windows

Today at Zendcon Bill Hilf and Andi Gutmans announced a new technical collaboration aimed at improving the performance of PHP on Windows both for IIS 6 as well as in the future including IIS 7 on Longhorn…

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Sitepoint PHP Blog

Check this blog out! Or as I saw somewhere : Have you had you PHP today?

Zend Framework

Zend came up with their own framework