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There are many ways PHP applications are deployed on production servers. Some people use SCMs like Subversion to fetch latest revision of code. Others simply transfer the files via FTP, SSH or rsync.
There is one problem with all of these approaches.
They are error prone.
File transfer is only part of the deployment process. If something needs to be configured, built or run afterwards it’s often performed manually.
PHP 5 Zend Certified Engineer is the most known and respected title for PHP developers. Currently, at the end of 2009, there are only 3493 Zend Certified Engineers worldwide. 2542 of them are certified in PHP 5.
Surprisingly it isn’t really hard to pass the exam. With proper approach and materials it is even quite easy.
Let me share with you a few tips which will let you pass the exam so you could also be listed on PHP Yellow Pages.
Last weekend I had a pleasure to attend the PHP North West Conference in Manchester. Everything started on Friday evening, one day before the actual event, with a pre-conference socializing in the Lass O’ Gowrie pub. I really enjoyed meeting and talking to so many people involved in the PHP community. Everyone, regardless of experience, were very kind and keen to exchange their points of view. Informal meetings with beer, food and video games are really good environment for expanding your social network. I guess it might be even more effective than exchanging views between the conference sessions.
Quite a Big Bang, that is a pretty good expression about a growing phenomenon of social networking. The popularity of sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter is increasing at astonishing rates, especially this last one. Although Twitter still has a long way to go, I am really amazed by its growth rate. Along with the one-millionth word in English language – Web 2.0 – we obtained a decent tool, which can be used in a number of ways. But they also pose new challenges!
Finally it happened: PHP 5.3 was released. It was a long awaited release, as it brings many improvements and features together with over 140 bug fixes. It’s almost like PHP 6 but without full Unicode support. In this post I will present the things I was either particularly waiting for or was just interested in.
Do you know the feeling when you look at your screen waiting for the project to build its workspace for hours or when you have to search the whole project in order to find a simple function ? If you do I recommend trying NetBeans as your primary IDE.
During this year’s php|tek conference in Chicago a spontaneous meeting about PHP standards took place. It was organized by a group of people usually working on a couple of important PHP projects like Zend Framework, PEAR, Solar, Agavi, CakePHP, symfony and phing. Unfortunately, I wasn’t there but the note about the initiative I have found on Left On The Web blog made me really happy.
Design patterns are technology independent but the way of implementation can vary based on the programming language that is used. The book “php|architect’s Guide to PHP Design Patterns” by Jason Sweat presents some of the design patterns which might be helpful while implementing web applications in PHP 4 and 5. Additionally, it is a good reference to Test Driven Development methodology.
After a few simple queries in Google I have to conclude that Polish government sites aren’t secure enough. We can easily use “Google Hacking” to access a range of information about server paths, databases configurations etc. Because of my findings I decided to write a post about “secure error reporting” in web applications.
