flexibility

In a new post today Jani Hartikainen takes a look at one of the things that makes PHP both powerful and unpredictable at times - its variable typing, static versus dynamic.

In a new blog post today Evert Pot shares some of his thoughts on integrating the Zend implementation of the OpenID protocol, Zend_OpenId, into his application.

The official stable release of symfony 1.1 is now nearly a month old, and response so far has been fairly positive.

This is not surprising, as this new version adds a lot of flexibility to the already flexible system that symfony offered.

Let's have a look at symfony 1.1, and specifically to the points that I feel are especially exciting in this new release.

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The CodeIgniter blog has pointed out something indicating the spread in popularity of the framework - a Japanese CodeIgniter book:

On the Zend Developer Zone there's a new tutorial (by Matthew Weier O'Phinney) covering the use of decorators with the Zend_Form component of the Zend Framework.

Zend_Form has been lauded by many as a welcome addition to Zend Framework, and a flexible solution to the problem of forms.

That said, one point of flexibility it offers has proved to be a pain point for many developers: decorators.

This tutorial aims to shed some light on decorators, as well as provide strategies for creating your own decorators and combining them in creative ways to customize the output your forms generate.