7PHP.com: Know The PHP Hampshire User Group - Find An Independent Venue Rather Than Conference Venue

On 7PHP.com there's a new interview posted with the organizers of the PHP Hampshire user group about the group, organizers and challenges they face.

James Titcumb, one of five organizers of the group, answers questions about:

• What their user group is about and what their goals are
  
• The size of the group and the key people involved
  
• How they find sponsors for their event
  
• How it's different from other user groups
  
• Some of the lessons they've learned so far
  

You can read the full interview here and, if you're in the Portsmouth area, be sure to check out the group!

Link: http://7php.com/php-usergroup-phphampshire

Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 07.01.2013

Recent releases from the Packagist:

• icomefromthenet/faker (v1.0.4)
  Test data generator using Doctrine DBAL and Symfony2 components
  
  
  
• uecode/amazon-bundle (v0.7.1, v0.7.0)
  Symfony2 Uecode Amazon Bundle
  
  
  
• schmutzka/nettetranslator (2.0.4)
  Translator for Nette (PHP framework).
  
  
  
• phundament/p3bootstrap (0.16.0)
  Bootstrap Theme for Phundament
  
  
  
• yumtruckz/yumtruckz-php-sdk (v1.0)
  SDK for connection to YumTruckz API
  
  
  
• annotatecms/debugger (1.0.1, 1.0.0)
  Tracy debugger integration into Laravel Framework
  
  
  
• ehann/frontend-bundle (1.0.2)
  Provides frontend components and layouts.
  
  
  
• annotatecms/latte (1.0.0)
  Latte templating engine from Nette Framework integrated into Laravel Framework
  
  
  
• roumen/asset (v1.2, v1.1)
  Laravel 4 assets manager.
  
  
  
• ocramius/proxy-manager (0.4.1)
  A library providing utilities to generate, instantiate and generally operate with Object Proxies
  
  
  
• waltz/band (0.1.1)
  Waltz.Band is core libraries for Waltz framework
  
  
  
• h4cc/phpqatools (1.1.0)
  A meta composer package for PHP QA Tools.
  
  
  
• waltz/score (0.1.1)
  Waltz configurating framework for Waltz framework
  
  
  
• waltz/stagehand (0.1.1)
  Waltz utility package
  
  
  
• renegare/es_service (v0.1.1)
  Simplified es manager/service class to get your PHP/Symfony Based server app using Elastic Search with minimum complications, but easily extendable to take on the bespoke
  
  
  
• desarrolla2/cache (v1.5.0, v1.4.0)
  Provides an cache interface for several adapters (Apc, File, Mongo, Memcached, Mysql, ... )
  
  
  
• firesphere/silverstripe-newsmodule (2.1)
  A ModelAdmin based newsmodule to prevent clutter in the SiteTree
  
  
  
• simplon/email (0.0.2, 0.0.1)
  Email building library which utilises swiftmailer
  
  
  
• orchestra/html (v2.0.2, v2.0.1)
  Orchestra Platform 2 Html Component
  
  
  
• saxulum/saxulum-controller-provider (1.1.0, 1.0.0)
  A controller registration provider
  
  
  
• onigoetz/profiler (1.0.0-beta)
  
  
  
  
• voodoophp/voodoo (1.2.2)
  A micro PHP 5.4 Modular MVC framework, that contains only the libraries to get you started
  
  
  
• doctrine/orm (2.4.0-RC2)
  Object-Relational-Mapper for PHP
  
  
  
• crisu83/yii-less (2.0.0)
  LESS compilers for the Yii PHP framework.
  
  
  
• flame/tester-selenium (v0.2.5)
  Support of Selenim 2 testing for nette/tester
  
  
  
• voodoophp/voodorm (2.0.2)
  VoodOrm is a micro-ORM which functions as both a fluent select query API and a CRUD model class.
  
  
  

MaltBlue.com: ZendDbSql - Creating Joins and Unions with Ease

On the MaltBlue.com blog Matthew Setter has a new post about the ZendDbSql component of Zend Framework 2, specifically related to making easy joins and unions. This is the second part of his series on this component.

In the first part of this series on ZendDbSqlSelect, we jumped the gun a bit and went straight in to looking at building Where clauses. We looked at a number of the predicates that are available to us, such as In, Between and EqualTo and saw just how easy ZendDbSqlSelect makes both building and maintaining queries. In this, the second part, we're backtracking a bit and looking at Joins and a slightly more esoteric feature of SQL - UNIONs. By the end of today's tutorial, you'll be building some pretty good queries that should satisfy most of your daily requirements.

He starts with a look at joins, showing in several code examples the various kinds - inner, outer, left and right (as well as self joins). He then moves on to unions, intersects and excerpts with examples of each.

Link: http://www.maltblue.com/tutorial/zend-db-sql-creating-joins-and-unions-with-ease

PHPMaster.com: Array Operators in PHP: Interesting but Less Spoken

On PHPMaster.com there's a new tutorial about array operators in PHP, more so how the usual operators interact with arrays.

Operators in PHP can be organized into seven different categories: arithmetic, assignment, bitwise, comparison, error control, execution, incrementing/decrementing, logical, string, array, and type operators. This article details working with array operators, but also covers how some of the other operators work when used with arrays.

They talk about the operators for:

• array union (plus)
  
• equality (double equals)
  
• identity (triple equals)
  

They also talk briefly about some of the other PHP operators with arrays (like subtraction, multiplication and division) and some of the conversions that PHP does when they're used.

Link: http://phpmaster.com/array-operators-in-php-interesting-but-less-spoken

Juan Treminio: Make $ vagrant up yours

Juan Treminio has written up an introductory post to Puppet and Vagrant and their use to make virtual machines for your PHP environments.

Why should I use a virtual machine?
Being a PHP developer has a much lower barrier to entry than Python, Ruby. Only Javascript is easier to start with. Tools such as XAMPP, MAMP, Homebrew, etc, make installing a basic LAMP stack on your computer extremely easy. So why would you want to give this up and use a slow, bulky and cryptic virtual machine?

He notes that the Puppet+Vagrant combination solves some of the common problems developers have setting up environments. He goes through what the two tools are and shows (screenshots) what the results look like. He includes a sample Puppet manifest, its configuration file, that loads an environment with PHP 5, Apache, a virtual host, PEAR, Composer and some other various configuration settings. He also mentions his PuPHPet tool he's created to make generating these kinds of configuration files simpler.

Link: https://jtreminio.com/2013/06/make_vagrant_up_yours

Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 06.30.2013

Recent releases from the Packagist:

• voodoophp/voodoo (1.3.0)
  A micro PHP 5.4 Modular MVC framework, that contains only the libraries to get you started
  
  
  
• firesphere/silverstripe-newsmodule (2.0.10, 2.0.9.3, 2.0.9.2, 2.0.9.1, 2.0.9, 2.0.8, 2.0.7.1, 2.0.7, 2.0.6)
  A ModelAdmin based newsmodule to prevent clutter in the SiteTree
  
  
  
• titon/model (0.1.11, 0.1.10)
  The Titon model package provides a basic database abstraction layer and an object relational mapper. Requires the PDO extension for database connections.
  
  
  
• prologue/phpconsole (v1.0.3)
  Prologue Phpconsole is a package for interacting with Phpconsole in Laravel 4.
  
  
  
• mozart/di (0.1.0)
  Mozart Dependency Injection Library
  
  
  
• polycademy/polyauth (1.0.5, 1.0.4)
  Authentication & Authorisation Library
  
  
  
• cnlpete/image-metadata-parser (v0.0.4)
  An abstraction to Exif, ITPC and XMP
  
  
  
• net_bazzline/component_requirement (v1.0.1)
  php component requirement
  
  
  
• fg/multiplayer (0.0.1)
  Builds customizable video embed codes from any URL.
  
  
  
• mv/mv-crud-generator-bundle (v1.0)
  Symfony2 Doctrine Crud generator Bundle
  
  
  
• jeroen-de-dauw/simple-cache (0.1)
  Small library defining a minimalistic caching interface and provides some basic implementations
  
  
  
• schmutzka/nettetranslator (2.0.3)
  Translator for Nette (PHP framework).
  
  
  
• schmutzka/gettexttranslator (2.0.3)
  Translator for Nette (PHP framework).
  
  
  
• vlucas/valitron (1.1.0)
  Simple, elegant, stand-alone validation library with NO dependencies
  
  
  
• simplon/payment (0.5.7, 0.5.6)
  Flexible solution to enable payments for multiple payment providers.
  
  
  
• sammaye/mongoyii (1.4.1, 1.4.0)
  A Yii MongoDB ORM
  
  
  
• florianwolters/component-core-enum (v0.4.1)
  The Typesafe Enum pattern as a PHP component.
  
  
  
• florianwolters/component-util-singleton (v0.3.2)
  The Singleton (and Registry of Singletons a.k.a. Multiton) design pattern as a PHP component.
  
  
  
• florianwolters/component-core-stringutils (v0.3.0)
  Offers operations on the data type string as a PHP component.
  
  
  
• tyz910/docx-templates (0.9)
  Simple template engine for .docx
  
  
  
• florianwolters/component-drawing-color (v0.1.0)
  Models and operations on objects related to colors as a PHP component.
  
  
  
• florianwolters/component-geometry (v0.1.1)
  Models and operations on objects related to geometry as a PHP component.
  
  
  
• florianwolters/component-core-valueobject (v0.1.0)
  The Value Object implementation pattern as a PHP component.
  
  
  
• moriony/silex-a1sms-provider (1.0.0)
  A1 Sms Market client service provider for the Silex framwork
  
  
  
• omnipay/omnipay (v1.0.1)
  A framework agnostic, multi-gateway payment processing library
  
  
  

Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 06.29.2013

Recent releases from the Packagist:

• uam/datatables-bundle (1.0.1, 1.1.1)
  Datatables jquery plugin packaged as a Symfony bundle
  
  
  
• titon/model-mysql (0.1.0)
  Provides MySQL database access for the Titon Model package.
  
  
  
• titon/model (0.1.9, 0.1.8, 0.1.7)
  The Titon model package provides a basic database abstraction layer and an object relational mapper. Requires the PDO extension for database connections.
  
  
  
• titon/test (0.10.0)
  The Titon test package provides classes and fixtures used for test cases. This should not be used in production.
  
  
  
• sabre/event (0.0.1)
  The sabre/event library provides utilities for lightweight event-based programming
  
  
  
• oodle/krumo (v0.2.3)
  KRUMO - version 2.0 of print_r(); and var_dump(); (with new updates)
  
  
  
• balanced/balanced (0.7.2)
  Client for Balanced API
  
  
  
• kmd/logviewer (0.1.8)
  Laravel 4 log file viewer.
  
  
  
• kevinlebrun/slug.php (1.0.0)
  Slug helpers
  
  
  
• uecode/amazon-bundle (v0.6.1)
  Symfony2 Uecode Amazon Bundle
  
  
  
• firesphere/silverstripe-newsmodule (2.0.5, 2.0.4, 2.0.3, 2.0.2, 2.0.1)
  A ModelAdmin based newsmodule to prevent clutter in the SiteTree
  
  
  
• jbafford/elastica-extra-bundle (v0.2)
  Provides additional functionality around ElasticaBundle
  
  
  
• enkas/sofort (1.0.0)
  Sofort library
  
  
  
• phundament/p3media (0.12.0, 0.11.11)
  Yii media file manager module with ckeditor integration
  
  
  
• phundament/p3pages (0.12.0, 0.11.11, 0.11.10)
  Page Manager
  
  
  
• phundament/p3widgets (0.12.0)
  Widget Manager
  
  
  
• loic-sharma/menu (v1.0.0)
  An expressive HTML Generator to create menus.
  
  
  
• lms42/course-bundle (v0.3)
  Course and lesson management for LMS.
  
  
  
• lms42/quiz-bundle (v0.3)
  Quiz bundle.
  
  
  
• lms42/exam-bundle (v0.3.1)
  Exam bundle.
  
  
  
• lms42/content-bundle (v0.3)
  Simple content management: pages and categories.
  
  
  
• lms42/admin-bundle (v0.3)
  Admin bundle for LMS.
  
  
  
• willdurand/geocoder-bundle (1.2.5, 1.2.4)
  Integration of Geocoder into Symfony2
  
  
  
• dracoblue/craur (1.7.4)
  A lossless xml to json and json to xml converter (and csv/xlsx/yaml). Writing PHP Json/Xml/Csv/Yaml/excel Importers made easy
  
  
  
• athletic/athletic (v0.1.5, v0.1.4)
  PHP Benchmarking Framework
  
  
  
• wikidi/release (0.0.2, 0.0.1)
  Simple PHP release helper
  
  
  
• payment/saferpay (2.1.2)
  Saferpay payment service library
  
  
  
• payment/saferpay-bundle (2.0.5, 2.0.4, 2.0.3, 2.0.2, 2.0.1, 2.0.0)
  Saferpay payment service library for symfony
  
  
  
• staffim/rollbar-bundle (v1.0.0)
  Bundle for Symfony2 that reports errors to Rollbar
  
  
  
• ocramius/proxy-manager (0.4.0)
  A library providing utilities to generate, instantiate and generally operate with Object Proxies
  
  
  
• bit3/contao-doctrine-dbal-driver (3.0.12, 2.11.7)
  Database Driver using Doctrine DBAL for Contao Open Source CMS
  
  
  
• braincrafted/testing-bundle (v0.2, v0.1.1)
  Tools for testing Symfony2 bundles
  
  
  
• gamespree/payment (0.6.1)
  Flexible solution to enable payments for multiple payment providers.
  
  
  
• phery/phery (2.5.6)
  XAJAX alternative, phery.js is a library in PHP that maps to all jQuery functions, DOM manipulation, meta arguments and serialization, seamless ajax integration, RESTful emulation, form submission and partial rendering views, plus its PSR-0 compatible
  
  
  
• spoonx/sxcore (1.2.0)
  A library of tested components sed throughout the Sx namespace.