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…

After some preparation time, we are proud to announce that we will start with German Online Training Courses at the end of May. It’s a series of training courses with the title „PHP in the Enterprise“. Topics include „Developing database applications with PHP“, „PHP and PEAR“ (announced, not bookable) and „PHP and XML/WebService“ (will be…

This week I gave a two-days power workshop "PHP in big projects" ("PHP in Großprojekten", as it was in German) on the conference "Entwicklertage", organized by the Software & Support publishing house. One of the topics was to tell how companies save millions of Euros by choosing PHP (like E.ON, for example) instead of Java.…

Just have a look at this wonderful image. It shows a PHP5 poster, sponsored by Zend and our company and designed by one of our employees and me, that tells you about all the new things that come with PHP5. From the new object-orientated model to the new PHP extensions like SimpleXML, mysqli, sqlite, SPL…

It’s great what ideas RPC applications can unleash. Just see the experimental color picker. (Found at Livehacker blog)