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A very useful Firebird driver for performing most CRUD database operations in PHP.

Hey guys, if you are thinking how to draw a Sparkline chart, than visifire can help you the best. An amazing chart controller offered under open source just for free powered by silverlight

Packt is pleased to announce the release of WordPress Themes Design, which is a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes. Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, this book will be invaluable to WordPress users or visual designers who want to develop a WordPress theme.

WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.

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Find bottlenecks in your php scripts by using xdebug profiler and kcachegrind.

technomind: Reading a file from local file system using javascript

An interesting article by my friend and colleague, Devang, on how you can read local files using PHP(or any other server side language). We figured out this solution recently when we had certain requirement of importing a local CSV in a html page.

I hope it will be helpful to you all too :) Good work Dev!
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Presented today at BarCamp Boston on programming for the Twitter API, based on the retweeter project I did for SXSW this year. You can grab the slides or the code.

Went better than the WordPress talk yesterday, in terms of time - easier to describe Twitter (which everyone already knows) than to try to cover the WordPress plugin API, the Facebook API, and the plugin I wrote to connect the two all in less than 30 minutes.

Learning Drupal 6 Module Development is a new book from Packt, which acts
as a practical tutorial for creating Drupal 6 modules with PHP. Written by Matt
Butcher, this book will help users to walk through the development of complete
Drupal 6 Modules.

Drupal is a free and open-source modular web
application framework and content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It
can run in many environments, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.
It's a modular system, with an elegant hook-based architecture, and great code.
These are a few of the perks that make Drupal a choice platform for developers
who want the power of an established CMS, but the freedom to make it work for
them. From social networking to AJAX to e-commerce, the hundreds of existing
modules attest to Drupal's flexibility.

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The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.0.7, the “Whit Monday” release. This release adds a Bengali and an Ukraine translation. The Czech translation was updated and we fixed some minor bugs.
[ED can be used with firebird backend]

This guide was tested on Ubuntu Hardy , I assume that php5-interbase and firebird is already installed
Next you will need to install MDB2 package using pear
$sudo su
#pear install MDB2
#pear install MDB2#ibase
Then you need to read the manual how to use this php driver

Now is time to create an mdb2 example employee.php
The connection string is created [...]

A sample how to configure Zend Db Adapter from Zend Framework using php_interbase (firebird extension)

IBM developerWorks: Discover
PHP's new features and syntax improvements and see how they will take
this already-popular scripting language to the next level. Learn how
Unicode support, Web 2.0 features, and other changes make PHP V6 more
robust, as well as more international.

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IBM developerWorks: Discover
PHP's new features and syntax improvements and see how they will take
this already-popular scripting language to the next level. Learn how
Unicode support, Web 2.0 features, and other changes make PHP V6 more
robust, as well as more international.

Complete Story

The PHP development team started the month of May with the release of PHP 5.2.6. With over 120 bug fixes, this release is mainly focused on stability. There are however several security enhancements in PHP 5.2.6:

• Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.
• Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.
• Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.
• Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
• Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser.
• Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6

References: Release Announcement, PHP 5.2.6 ChangeLog, PHP.net Download page

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediateavailability of PHP 5.2.6. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Further details about the PHP 5.2.6 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.6, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.6:Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser.Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6

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I missed the anouncement on 28th as I was on leave. I have been using 6.1 since its beta and along RC1 & 2 and am really impressed by what it has become. A truly wonderful IDE. I always thought NetBeans was much better integrated than Eclipse, with this release it only gets better. They also have PHP experimental support. Do check this out!!!Blogged with the Flock Browser