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I joined Christopher’s session about the PayPal API. He quickly stepped through his last year’s presentation about PayPal to explain to the audience what and who PayPal is. PayPal offers different APIs, from normal HTTP POST requests with HTTP redirection to a modern SOAP API. Unfortunately, the SOAP API only provides 3 method calls, so…

I attended the talk of John Coggeshall from Zend, „WebServices in PHP5“. John gave a quick overview about what web services are and how the protocol looks like. He didn’t go into further details explaining the XML of SOAP (which seemed to be a good decision because it’s very complex and not easy to understand…

Day one of the main conference is now over. In the next couple of minutes the Oracle installfest will begin. Speakers will have a speaker dinner at 20.30… the day was full packed with a lot of sessions, mainly targeting to PHP5, i18n and database clustering problems. I had the chance to talk to a…

The second part of the XML workshop continued with xmlReader (which will be part with PHP 5.1) and xmlWriter (which could be part of the upcoming standard PHP5.1 distribution). xmlWriter adds some handy functions to create well-formed documents with ease to use. A small, but useful feature from the new DOM extension: it can „repair“…

Welcome again! This year’s PHP Conference Spring Edition provides you with a bunch of first-class talks from the PHP experts. The first day of this three-day event starts with some PowerWorkshops. I’m currently sitting in the „XML & WebServices with PHP5 and PEAR“ workshop hosted by Tobias Schlitt and Stephan Schmidt, both very active members…

Great guys that are producing great OpenSource software and talking about that in their blogs. Be sure to add Planet MySQL to your RSS feedster. I’m currently looking forward to MySQL Workbench, the successor of DBDesigner from Mike Zinner (who joined the MySQL GUI team in the past).

A German press-release from Zend titles: „Die PHP-Architekten sind gleich dreifach auf der führenden Konferenz Europas für Java-Technologien vertreten“ Everybody knows that some blurbs are neccessary for a good marketing and PR work (in German we say „Klappern gehört zum Handwerk“). But I don’t think that it’s a good idea to claim to be the…

For one of our customers, the Vaillant Group (a leading European heating device manufacturer), we built a spare parts shop application for the web, including OCR recognition of exploded drawings. The web application is based on PHP/MySQL and has an imported catalogue of the SAP. Furthermore, the installers receive a CD with the shop application…

In the German channel #php.de/IRCNet people discuss every kind of stuff. Sometimes there are even discussions about PHP related topics. Today we had a discussion about having fun with casting in PHP.