The Future of PEAR

By Elizabeth Naramore

What's in Store as New Leadership Takes Hold

As a new era of PHP Extension and Application Repository (affectionately known as PEAR) approaches, the new PEAR governing body has its work cut out for it. In recent months PEAR has gotten a bad rap by some and been wholeheartedly embraced by others. As with any other open source project, as the popularity grows, so do the headaches. Although its popularity has brought fresh bright faces to the growing developer base, it has also experienced some of those open source growing pains. Increasing resources means more contributions, but it also means an increased need for coordination and diplomacy across cultural differences, different views, and different ideas of what’s best for the project. This article sheds light on who makes up this new PEAR Group, where they want to take the PEAR project, and how they’re going to get there.[Read More]

Enterprise 2.0 Security

By PHP Magazine

Web 2.0 technologies Behind the Firewall

Technologies and applications from the Web 2.0 sphere are also used within an enterprise, under the head "Enterprise 2.0" or "Office 2.0". The concept of Enterprise 2.0 brings with it several questions. Which elements are already suited for the application behind the firewall? How are enterprises reacting to this new hype? What are the opportunities and risks of such technologies for commercial organisations? Find the answers in this article.[Read More]

PHPT - Unit Testing for the Rest of Us

By Stoyan Stefanov

Introduction to Unit Testing with PHPT Testing Framework

You have heard about unit testing. You're most probably convinced that you should start writing unit tests as part of the next project and maybe you even convinced your boss to set aside some time. You probably even took a look at the some examples and tutorials and thought "yeah, I can do that". And then? There was no time, the schedule was tight, requirements kept changing, bugs kept popping up and maybe that unit test tool you picked had a little sharper learning curve than you anticipated. It shouldn't be this way, unit tests can be easy to write and run, they can help you with the quality of the code and most of all, they can be fun![Read More]

News & Trends

By PHP Magazine

What’s New in the PHP Community