php 5

On the PHPClasses.org blog there's a new post detailing an issue that came up in the PHP 5.3.9 release that caused a large security issue (PHP 5.3.10 has, however, already been released to correct the issue).

In case you weren't able to make it (or missed the live stream) Rasmus Lerdorf gave a presentation last night at Etsy as a part of their "Code as Craft" series.

They recorded the session and you can watch it here.

He talks about a few things:

Following on the heels of the PHP 5.3.9 release, I've bundled OCI8 1.4.7 for PECL.

The PECL OCI8 1.4.7 code is the same as included in PHP 5.3.9. The release notes are here.

There are several bug fixes; upgrading is recommended.

Following in the trail blazed by the likes of Cal Evans and Chris Cornutt, I decided to post a list of the posts on this blog that have received the most traffic this year along with some related commentary.

However, in the spirit of Charles St.

You may have heard about Composer and Packagist lately.

In short, Composer is a new package manager for PHP libraries. Quite a few people have been complaining about the lack of information, or just seemed confused as to what it was, or why the hell we would do such a thing.

This is my attempt at clarifying things.

This second part of this post, tentatively titled Use Cases, will be out next week if time allows.

The South Florida PHP User Group has announced their December 2011 meeting - happening on the 14th at 7pm - with a look at how far PHP has come in 2011 and some of the things coming up.

Rasmus Lerdorf will be presenting.

On the CloudSpring site today there's the continuation of a previous article about RackSpace's CloudFiles API.

In this new post they show how to use their PHP SDK to connect to and use the CloudFiles service.

PECL/mysqlnd 1.1.2-stable has been released. The mysqlnd replication and load balancing plugin for PHP 5.3/5.4 finally got the download label it deserves: stable, ready for production use!

PECL/mysqlnd_ms makes using any kind of MySQL database cluster easier. Download PECL/mysqlnd from pecl.php.net Documentation at the PHP Reference Manual Key features The release motto of the ...

After a short sprint for PHP 5.4 beta, which is on its way with mysqlnd as a configuration default for all three PHP MySQL extensions, we continued working on the mysqlnd replication plugin (PECL/mysqlnd_ms).

Please, find a high level overview presentation further below in this blog post. Because replication ...

Not even ten days after the release of vfsStream 0.9.0 today the fresh version 0.10.0 hits the streets, containing various improvements to make your life with vfsStream much easier.

Especially when you want to create more than just two or three files it's really noisy to create the directory structure.

To ease this vfsStream now provides a vfsStream::create() method which accepts an array and builds the directory structure from it.