by Marco Tabini · July 26, 2010

July 22 has seen the release of two new versions of PHP – the innovator 5.3.x and the previous 5.2.x. There are interesting news for both these new releases.

by Marco Tabini · July 21, 2010

PHPDOCX is a PHP library that allows its client code to generate Microsoft Word documents in the .docx format from PHP scripts, or to output PDF and HTML from a given Word document.

by Marco Tabini · June 9, 2010

If I want to use PHP 5.3 right now on my development box or server, which platform should I choose?

by Carl Anderson · May 3, 2010

The Lithium framework continues to make great strides, and project lead Nate Abele has announced that Lithium has hit version 0.9.5, an interim release.

by Carl Anderson · April 2, 2010

Continuing with their lightning-fast development, the Lithium team releases Lithium 0.8.

by Marco Tabini · March 29, 2010

The introduction of namespaces in PHP 5.3 is bringing a new concept in the PHP world, and knowing how to leverage the new features is important for writing concise and readable code.

by Marco Tabini · March 11, 2010

There’s been lots of buzz about Zend Framework 2.0 recently, and for good reason: the feature list is truly kick-ass. With dozens of proposed changes, the second iteration of the web’s most popular framework is looking to be considerably better, more efficient and easier to use than the first, while still offering the functionality that framework users have come to expect.

by Marco Tabini · February 26, 2010

Fat-Free Framework is a new minimalistic yet very functional PHP framework. It supports PHP 5.3, and requires no additional extensions other than the core extentions shipped with PHP. It sets itself apart by trying to be usable, not the usual.

by Marco Tabini · February 25, 2010

With the 1.10.2 maintenance release now available, the Zend Framework community is now turning its attention to the 2.0 release. Among the new features planned are namespaces, autoloaders and even a discussion on git vs. subversion.