john lim

After a long pause, a new version. Having young children and a busy work schedule has been keeping me too occupied.

Mostly bug-fixes.

Some minor enhancements for Oracle performance monitoring.

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Regards, John Lim

Postgres: Added information_schema support for postgresql.

Postgres: Use pg_unescape_bytea() in _decode.

oci8: Fix bulk binding with oci8.

Now that PHP 5.2 is at the end of life, we are starting to migrate to PHP 5.3.

Here are some of my experiences with our code:

• The function session_register() is now deprecated.
  
  We have created a wrapper function called _session_register with the same functionality.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Developer.com: Managing File Uploads with the Zend Framework
• NETTUTS.com: Book Review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development
• PHPFreaks.com: Template based document generation using LiveDocx and Zend Framework
• Phil Sturgeon's Blog: CodeIgniter "2.0": Rumours, facts and requests

The new 8-core Intel Xeon 7550 processors are extremely powerful and a good platform for virtualised applications.

My company is setting up PHP application running on a Xen based virtualisation on two HP Proliant DL580 for a total of 64 cores in a high availability environment.

We are using Zend Server CE (PHP 5.2) and Oracle 11gR2. More info later as i have to go for dim-sum with relatives in a few minutes time.

John Lim has updated his Optimizing PHP article with some new tips on caching data:

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Stefan Mischook's Blog: PHP Shopping Cart Video Tutorial Course - available for download.
• Debuggable Blog: XPath on PHP Arrays (Set::extract)
• Zend Developer Zone: ZendCon Update!
• Zend: Series of free online seminars on PHP
• GoodPHPTutorials.com: Integrating the Authorize.N

John Lim has written up an article for the Oracle Technology Network about creating high performance systems with Oracle's Real Application Clusters (RAC) and PHP.