PHP in the News

Winfried Trümper", "http://www.guug.de:8080/fotos/linuxtag/story/index.html", "July, 2000");?> The literal translation of LinuxTag is LinuxDay. This title is a leftover from ancient times, when the event really lasted one day. This year the event occupied the fair in Stuttgart for four whole days, beginning at thurday with a business congress. For those commercially relevant lectures you had to pay. However, a total of over 100 hours of free lectures followed from friday to sunday, addressing the interests of end-users and developers. During all days companies and free software developers showed their Linux-products on an area of 6.000 m². An estimated number of 17.000 people visited the LinuxTag, making it a big success to be repeated next year. Jason Gilmore", "http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/16/magazine/php_mysql.html", "June 16, 2000");?> MySQL and PHP have developed a special sort of relationship over the past few years, perhaps due in large part to the fact that they are both freely available for download. The increased popularity of this dynamic duo, coupled with boundless enthusiasm from core developers of both technologies, culminated in a "meeting of the minds" in Israel earlier this year. This resulted in the MySQL library being packaged with the PHP 4.0 distribution, in addition to an agreement to help each other improve the performance quality of product integration whenever the opportunity arises. John Paul Ashenfelter", "http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/16/magazine/mysql.html", "June 16, 2000");?> So you need to build a database application that will be delivered over the Web. Your users have the browsers, you've got the web server and application software, but you need a database. What are your choices? "A teacher overheard him say that he was using PHP, and as part of our Zero-Tolerance policy against drug use, he was immediately suspended. No questions asked," said Principal Clyde Thurlow. "We're not quite sure what PHP is, but we suspect it may be a derivative of PCP, or maybe a new designer drug like GHB." Jason Gilmore", "http://www.webreview.com/pub/2000/06/02/feature/index03.html?wwwrrr_rss", "June 2, 2000");?> Couple Object-Oriented Programming with PHP and you've got features worth inheriting. From foundations to class to inheritance, Jason makes understanding objects within PHP easy--and practical. Tobias Ratschiller", "http://idm.internet.com/articles/200005/php_05_30_00a.html", "May 31, 2000");?> What have sprint.ca, livebid.amazon.com, xoom.com, and mp3.lycos.com in common? All employ one of the Web's hottest server side technologies: PHP, the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. As this article shows, PHP over the years had the opportunity to strengthen its core base and to integrate more features, and provides today a base that can easily stand out in the increasingly crowded server-side application development platform market. Paul Ferris", "http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/1891/1/", "May 28, 2000");?> If you've been cruising the net, looking for the latest and greatest things, you often come across vaporware technologies, and promises that are made and broken. You might find yourself imagining things, like over-hyped proprietary products coming down the pike, where the choices had been open in the past. Henning Behme", "http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2000/06/056/", "May 17, 2000");?> (In German.) Dynamische Websites sind meist von Datenbanken abhängig. Deren Bestände lassen sich `on the fly' vom Server zu Surfer übertragen. PHP ist eine Skriptsprache, die die Integration von DBMS-Daten in HTML-Dateien erleichtert. Tobias Ratschiller", "http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/05/ratschiller/", "April 7, 2000");?> What's that in the sky? Is it Perl? Is it ASP? Is it JSP? No, it's PHP 4.0! Tobias Ratschiller has the inside story on what you can expect from release candidate 1. Eric van der Vlist", "http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=338", "March 14, 2000");?> Classified as "the most popular Apache module" by E-Soft, PHP is one of the least frequently mentioned languages amongst the XML discussion lists. Describes the major differences and improvements in the next generation PHP, PHP 4. You may already know that PHP is fast, stable, and easy to learn, but you may not know how it got that way. In this interview, Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, talks about the unlikely origins of this open-source product. Then core developers Stig Bakken, Andi Gutmans, and Zeev Suraski explain how they came to work on PHP and discuss the evolution of the language. Plus, you'll hear about the planned support for XML and MySQL and what's going on with Zend. Jason Gilmore", "http://www.webreview.com/pub/2000/02/11/php/index.html", "February 11, 2000");?> Tutorial for creating template-based Web sites with PHP. Julie Meloni", "http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/05/index2a.html", "February 2, 2000");?> Shows you the basics of PHP-based user authentication, the use of cookies, and a short glimpse (with working examples!) at the session functions of PHP4. The article was written by Julie Meloni, author of PHP Essentials, a book for the beginning or intermediate PHP user, available in March at a bookstore near you. Jason Gilmore", "http://webreview.com/pub/2000/01/21/feature/index.html", "January 21, 2000");?> PHP can help you look like a web-wunderkid while saving you hours of drudgery. Jim White", "http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JimWhite/JimWhite5.html", "December 22, 1999");?> PHP is now running over a million web sites and with good reason. PHP is open source, it runs equally well on NT and UNIX, it's well documented. PHP is no doubt stealing market share from Microsoft's Active Server Pages, but the media has been unusually quiet about the issue. Even as Apache's success has become front page news, PHP has gone largely unnoticed. Maybe Microsoft wants to keep it that way. Graeme Merral", "http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/51/index3a.html", "December 16, 1999");?> Optimization - PHP vs. ASP - New Features - Geeky Features Glyn Moody", "http://www.computerweekly.com/cwarchive/gwfeat/19991209/cwcontainer.asp?name=F1.html", "December 9, 1999");?> With the same features as ASP and JSP, PHP is the fastest growing Apache add-on. Dirk Reichelt", "http://www.zdnet.de/internet/artikel/java/199912/phpdatenbank01_00-wc.html", "November 29, 1999");?> (In German.) "Redaktionssystem für die Website mit PHP" Linuxpower Team", "http://www.linuxpower.org/display_item.phtml?id=149", "November 17, 1999");?> An interview with the core PHP development team: Andi, Andrei, Jim, Rasmus, Sascha, Stig, Thies, and Zeev. PHP began as a small project to enhance a single Web site; it eventually became the most popular server-side scripting language for use with Apache. Tobias Ratschiller", "http://www.internetworld.de/iw/magazin_11phpeinfuehrung.htm", "October 20, 1999");?> (In German.) "Over ten percent of all web servers have the scripting language PHP installed. Internet World shows you how to create dynamic web pages with PHP." Introduction to PHP in four parts." (In German.) Dynamisch generierte Web-Seiten zu erstellen gehört längst zum normalen Handwerk. Werkzeuge und Sprachen dafür stehen zur Verfügung. Das derzeit noch in der Version 3 verfügbare PHP bietet sich dabei für Anfänger wie Profis an - und PHP ist Open Source. A basic introduction to PHP, by the author of "Core PHP Programming". LinuxWorld's editorial director discovers PHP and extols its virtues. Another Webmonkey article on using PHP, this time explaining how to use PHP to make it easier for users to navigate your website. A three-lesson tutorial on using PHP and MySQL together on Windows and Unix systems. Slackware.com uses it. But have you heard of the freely available conferencing software called Phorum? Joe tells the story of Phorum, and how he came to try it out. First in a series dedicated to the analysis, development and implementation of a very complete system for publishing data on the Internet using GNU/Linux software (including PHP 3.0). Building a simple web-mail interface in PHP using the IMAP extension. A very introductory look at LDAP and how to write a PHP interface to an LDAP server. "Search This: Searching Your Dynamic Site with PHP and ht://Dig" "Static HTML pages are boring, CGI-scripts too slow, ColdFusion etc to expensive? The solution is PHP 3." This German introductory article presents PHP 3 as a scalable, easy-to-use, high-perfomance solution for server-side scripting. Features also an interview with Rasmus Lerdorf. Ask most Web application developers their scripting language of choice, and you'll find that most are divided into two camps - the Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) folks, and the Cold Fusion users. If you do a little more research however, you'll find there are other options out there, and one of these, PHP 3.0, is in much wider use than one would think for an "alternative product". "Building Dynamic Web Pages with Search Engines in Mind" and "Creating Dynamic Images with PHP" "PHP 3 is the most powerful tool on the market for building dynamic, database-driven websites. Internet Pro shows how to realize a classified ads site with PHP and MySQL." "The world's most popular Web server has a reputation for performance and extensibility. You may not be aware of the rich programming environment that surrounds Apache, though. PHP gives you strong SQL connectivity, and mod_perl has powerful application integration facilities. Learn how to exploit these capabilities. Also, see our review of Apache."

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