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While I was recently on summer vacation (yes, it is summer in half the world), the VirtualBox VM for PHP was refreshed to a more recent Zend Server/Oracle Linux/Oracle Database XE stack.

I just pulled the VM down, imported it and had it booting and serving PHP pages in a very few minutes.

VirtualBox really is marvelous. There is a link to download the VM near the foot of the Oracle Technology Network Developer VM page.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today, they've posted the latest in their DPC Radio series of podcasts - recordings from this year's Dutch PHP Conference.

In this latest episode, they share Christopher Jones' talk "Developing and Deploying High Performance PHP Applications".

Here are some key resources for working with PHP and Oracle technologies.

• Overall Links

  Oracle : Oracle Technology Network (OTN)

  Homepage : The PHP Developer Center -- downloads, how-tos, sample code and discussion forums brought to you by OTN.

On the Oracle Technology Network today, the part two of "Scaling PHP MySQL Web Applications" (from Eli White) has been published.

Part one can be found here.

On the Oracle Technology Network today there's a new article from Chris Jones about using the client identifier in the OCI8 PHP-to-Oracle connections to help with auditing, profiling and monitoring your Oracle database usage.

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

• PHP & jQuery: Calendars
• Content with Style: Custom Zend Form Image Upload Element
• PHPFreaks.com: 10 Signs of Crappy PHP Software
• PEAR Blog: PHP 5.3 Windows and PEAR (go-pear.phar)
• PHP.net: PHP 5.3.0 Released!
• DevShed:

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

• Rob Allen's Blog: Initial notes on Zend_Application
• ProDevTips.com: Zend Amf and class mapping with Flash CS3 / AS3
• DevShed: Adding CSS to Handling Views with CodeIgniter
• Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: Flickr: The Real World PHP 5 Benchmark
• Smashing Magazine: 10 Advanced PHP

Chris Jones has pointed out a new article on the Oracle Technology Network about using PHP on the Oracle HTTP Server for 11g.

As Chris Jones mentions on his blog today, the "Underground PHP & Oracle Manual" has gotten a bit of a facelift:

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• PHPFreaks.com: 10 Signs of Crappy PHP Software
• DevShed: Using the spl_autoload() Functions to Build Loader Apps in PHP
• PEAR Blog: PHP 5.3 Windows and PEAR (go-pear.phar)
• Lorna Mitchell's Blog: Status Codes for Web Services
• Oracle Technology Network: High Performance and Availabili