Last week, I got an email from Garrett Serack, M’soft Open Source Community Developer. Microsoft have been kind enough to donate a set of ADOdb drivers for the new MSSQL Native Extension for PHP. You can download the extension here and the ADOdb drivers here.
Garrett also mentions that ADOdb is the first LGPL project that Microsoft has ever contributed to. I quote from his email to me:
ADODB is actually the first LGPL Open Source project that Microsoft has ever contributed to.
We’ve got a dozen or so others lined up and ready to go (more…)
A few weeks ago the manual was restructured to improve navigation and make room for per-extension chapters and usage examples along with improved documentation for object oriented extensions. The most noticable changes are the function reference, predefined variables, context options and parameters and predefined exceptions manual pages, for which we would really appreciate feedback on. The upcomming PHP5.3 release introduces several major features such as namespaces, closures, late static bindings, internationalization functions, INI sections, and Phar among others. We would really appreciate (more…)
Overall 158 tests have been submitted as part of TestFest 2008 since the launch of the TestFest submission site by 30 different people from people all over the world. Actually this is not counting the various submissions by existing core developers, who also took this opportunity to add some more tests. This has actually increased total test coverage by about 10%. While the organization of the TestFest was a bit adhoc, there were numerous TestFest events in local user groups. So the number of people exposed to the PHP test framework is much greater. Hopefully this will lead to more people subm (more…)
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediateavailability of PHP 5.2.6. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Further details about the PHP 5.2.6 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.6, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.6:Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.Fixed integer overflow (more…)
The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Ten students will “flip bits instead of burgers” this summer: Zend LLVM Extension by JoonasGovenius, mentored by NunoLopes PHP Optimizer by SamuelGraham Kelly IV, mentored by DerickRethans PhD Improvements and Updates by NicholasSloan, mentored by HannesMagnusson Replace auto* with CMake by Alejandro LeivaRojas, mentored by Pierre A.Joye gsoc:2008 - XDebug by Chung-YangLee, mentored by DavidCoallier Rewrite the run-tests.php script by CesarMontedonico, mentored by TravisSwicegood PHP Bindings for Cairo by AkshatGupta (more…)
