Rasmus Lerdorf and Jim Winstead will be giving a pair of three-hour
tutorials at O'Reilly's
Open Source Software Convention on August 21, 1999, in Monterey,
California. You can find more information about the tutorials
here.
June 27, 1999. Hot on the heels of 3.0.10, along comes another release to fix a few problems on Windows and some Unix platforms. If 3.0.10 worked for you, there's probably no need to upgrade. 3.0.10 featured bug fixes, including the last of the fsockopen() and URL fopen() problems, we hope. The dbm database abstraction layer had the mode flag for dba_open() brought into line with dbm_open(), which means "w" will not create a non-existent database (use "c" instead). The documentation has also been moved into its own repository, and the generated HTML documentation is included in the tar.gz instead of the SGML source. For a more complete list of all of the changes, see the ChangeLog.
Rasmus Lerdorf and Jim Winstead will be giving a pair of three-hour
tutorials at O'Reilly's
Open Source Software Convention on August 21, 1999, in Monterey,
California. You can find more information about the tutorials
here.
Get ready for a wave of PHP related books to hit the shelves! We don't know exactly how many there are going to be yet, but some are already available through Amazon.com and Borders. Click here to see them all.
Netcraft's June server survey results are out. They don't actually have scripting language numbers online at Netcraft, but they do a manual grep and email us this information monthly. Here is a little bar chart showing the growth of PHP usage over the past year.
Zend, a new optimized engine for PHP has been announced on January 4th, 1999.
Visit the Zend Web site! Note that
Zend is not a new version of PHP. Zend is the name of the engine that
will be a critical component of PHP Version 4 which is still a couple
of months away from being available in any form whatsoever.
PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. If you are completely new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, have a look at the Introductory Tutorial. Once you get beyond that have a look at the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the Links section.
This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-Unix background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official license.