AMFPHP project reached the version 1.0 milestone last week. I’ve been following this project for over 2 years and it’s great to see it finally reaching full production status. AMFPHP is an open-source Flash Remoting gateway that is fast, reliable, 100% free and open-source.
Symfony is a new web development framework much like Rails or Django except its for the PHP web scripting language. If you’d like to learn this new framework, check out their symfony advent calendar that is a set of 24 tutorials, published day-by-day between December 1st and Christmas.
Pascal Opitz from the Content with Style blog has a fantastic tutorial on creating : Database-driven tree structures with XML and XSLT. The technique uses the preordered tree traversal method on the database, then uses PHP to create the XML that is then styled with XSLT.
Agave Group has released a very good Priority / To-Do / Keep-track-of-stuff List web application. It’s a pretty slick open-source product that uses lots of AJAX mixed with PHP and MySQL. The download info is available in a separate post.
Seems like web frameworks are all the rage these past few months. Symfony is yet another open-source PHP framework that might be worth checking out. It supports features like:
One thing I find interesting though, is that on the Ruby platform there is one framework (Rails) and if Python is your scripting language of choice, there is Django. On the PHP side however, there are at least 4 that I have come across. It would be nice if one PHP framework would lead in this space, to make the choice much more clear and focus the efforts of the open-source contributors to creating one great project.
Looking to include geo mapping capabilities to your PHP applications? Phoogle Maps is a complete mapping class for Google Maps that allows you to place maps on your page with about 5 lines of code!
PHP 5.1 has just been released. Some of the major changes include:
Qcodo is a new open-source PHP 5 framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding. The group offers two screencasts that combined last 45 minutes and will give you a pretty good idea about what this framework offers developers:
The web development weblog has three great tutorials that will show you how to create your own customized search page using SOAP from PHP. The tutorials cover:
TurboDbAdmin is a single-page AJAX solution for exploring and editing databases from a browser. Edit data just like you would in a desktop application, without submit buttons or page refreshes. This release supports: navigating to and browsing table data, viewing table schema, and editing table data. TurboDbAdmin requires a web server, PHP 4 or higher, and MySQL 3 or higher.
