schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff
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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa

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PHP
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- Who uses PHP?

  Surfing along zend.com I found a nice advertisement banner of them, which
  gives an impression on which large companies are using PHP (since they use a
  Zend product, I guess they do).

- Goto for PHP: Heaven or hell?

  Reading all those mails from the past weeks, I stumbled over several dealing
  with a patch for PHP provided by Sara Goleman, which provides "goto"
  statements for PHP. There seem to be a lot of different opinions on that
  topic, in my eyes mainly depending on the code camp the specific person
  comes from. I wanna pick up some of the statements I found against goto and
  comment on them.

- Conferences to come

  Now, since the summer slump is nearly over, there are more technology
  conferences to come. As there are for me:

- First webhoster with PHP5

  Domain)Factory (Germany's 5th largest web hosting company) recently
  announced to fully support PHP 5.0.0.  For nearly every package
  Domain)Factory offers it's possible to enable PHP 5 support within a simple
  .htaccess. By default files with the extensiuon .php5 are run through it.

- PHP _in_ the Internet Explorer

  Wez Furlongs Activescript SAPI allows you to code client side scripts to run
  in the Internet Explorer.

- PHP 4.3.8 released

  Beside the champagne throwing release of PHP 5.0, the version 4.3.8 has been
  released. It's strongly recommended to upgrade to this version, regarding
  security issues.

- WELCOME PHP5!!!

  It finally happened! PHP5 has recently been released.

- Weired Excel time format

  I don't know, if that's common knowledge, but I found it very useful.

- Karlsruhe demo in Ct

  Today I received my copy of the german Ct magazine (magazine for computer
  technic), which has a 1 page article on the Linuxtag (see page 48, issue
  15/2004). The article is focused half onto Linuxtag itself and the other
  half is focused on our demonstration. Best thing: In the middle of the page
  there's a photo of the 10 jailed programmers, where I'm in the very middle!
  ;)

- "protected $var", has won by far.

  The PEAR community has decided on how to deal with protected attributes and
  methodes regarding the PEAR coding standards for PHP5. In the past private
  members of a class were prefixed by an underscore (_), the question now was,
  how to deal with protected members, since they're not private nor public.