Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.08.2012

Recent releases from the Packagist:

• axelitus/acre-net-http (v0.5.0)
  
• pocketrent/silverstripe-twitter (1.1, 2.0)
  
• granula/twig (v1.0.2, v1.0.1)
  
• granula/config (v1.1.3, v1.1.2, v1.1.1, v1.1, v1.0)
  
• bcen/yauc (0.0.5)
  
• isidromerayo/simple_php_skeleton (v0.9)
  
• granula/app (v1.0)
  
• granula/controller (v1.0)
  
• granula/granula (v1.0)
  
• sybio/image-workshop (2.0.0)
  
• granula/router (v1.0)
  
• liuggio/statsd-client-bundle (v1.2.3)
  
• pascalc/php-properties (1.0)
  
• alcaeus/liquibase (1.0.0)
  
• phpmo/phpmo (v0.1)
  
• devster/ubench (1.1.1, 1.1.0)
  
• us/libopensso (1.0.6)
  
• backend/base (0.2.2)
  
• backend/core (0.5.5, 0.5.4)
  
• rickysu/cacheable-behavior-bundle (v1.0.1)
  

Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 12.07.2012

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Phil Sturgeon: Why some people hate PHP
  
• Paul Jones: Aura: First 1.0.0 Stable Library Releases!
  
• Community News: PHPKnowHow.com - PHP in Plain English
  
• Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.01.2012
  
• Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.02.2012
  
• Richard Rodger: Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards
  
• Scott Mattocks: C is for Configurable
  
• Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 11.30.2012
  
• Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 11.30.2012
  
• Sherif Ramadan: PHP OOP: Objects Under The Hood
  

Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.07.2012

Recent releases from the Packagist:

• foolz/sphinxql-query-builder (0.8.5, 0.8.4)
  
• monga/monga (0.2.0)
  
• zircote/rhubarb (0.0.2, 0.0.1)
  
• zircote/uuid (0.1.0)
  
• isidromerayo/simple_php_skeleton (v0.8)
  
• silverstripe/newsletter (0.5.0)
  
• endroid/twitter-bundle (v1.1)
  
• endroid/twitter (v1.1)
  
• dflydev/apache-mime-types (v1.0.0)
  
• manymules/foundation-bundle (3.2.3)
  
• zendserverapi/zendserverapi-phing (0.0.1)
  
• rcrowe/twigbridge (v0.0.6, v0.0.5, v0.0.4)
  
• goodby/csv (1.0.0)
  
• pyrocms/lex (2.2.0)
  
• bcen/yauc (0.0.4)
  
• fuel/lex (2.2.0)
  
• packfire/options (1.0.0)
  
• simonjodet/gumdrop (1.1.2, 1.1.1, 1.1.0)
  
• gnugat/soul-me-maybe (1.1.4, 1.0.3)
  
• sylius/cart-bundle (v0.1.0)
  
• skyzyx/mimetypes (1.1, 1.0.1)
  

Chris Jones: Adding DTrace Probes to PHP Extensions

In a new post to his site (related to the topic of this previous post) Chris Jones shows you how to setup and use DTrace support in your PHP installation for enhanced debugging abilities.

The powerful DTrace tracing facility has some PHP-specific probes that can be enabled with --enable-dtrace. DTrace for Linux is being created by Oracle and is currently in tech preview. Currently it doesn't support userspace tracing so, in the meantime, Systemtap can be used to monitor the probes implemented in PHP. This was recently outlined in David Soria Parra's post Probing PHP with Systemtap on Linux.

His examples are using the Oracle flavor of linux, but they should work for just about any unix-based system out there. He installs the tool via a yum package and compiles the latest PHP source with the "enable-dtrace" flag. He includes a simple script to connect to an Oracle database and shows the contents of the resulting "functrace.stp". He also shows how he added more "prodbes" (the points DTrace uses to profile) into the OCI8 extension for PHP (steps and source included).

Paul Jones: How Is Aura Better Than (er, Different From ;-) Than Symfony and Zend?

In this new post Paul Jones has reprinted an interview he did with PHP Magazin about the recent 1.0 release of the PHP framework project he is a lead on - the Aura project.

I did an email interview with the folks at PHP Magazin; their German version is here. What follows is our original email exchange in English.

They talked about some of the core principles behind the framework, its origins from the Solar framework, the team's "libraries first, framework second" methods and its push to be a PHP 5.4-focused framework. There's also a bit that compares the framework to two other popular options - Zend Framework and Symfony.

Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Volker Dusch's Blog: Book Review: PHP Masters
  
• Wokay.com: 12+ Tutorials for creating PHP5 MVC Framework
  
• PHPMaster.com: Untangling MVC with CodeIgniter
  
• Nelm.io Blog: Composer: Part 1 - What & Why
  
• DZone.com: Codeigniter and Object-Oriented PHP: Two Guides
  
• PHPBuilder.com: PHP Arrays: Advanced Iteration and Manipulation
  
• Devshed: Building a PHP ORM: Deploying a Blog
  
• VG Tech Blog: Unit Testing with Streams in PHP
  
• Reddit.com: Should I be doing just about everything using REST?
  
• VG Tech Blog: Mocking the File System Using PHPUnit and vfsStream
  
• Elizabeth Naramore's Blog: PHP Internals, Let's Chat About the Future!
  
• Mrinmoy Ghoshal's Blog: Concept of Strings:PHP
  
• Ilia Alshanetsky's Blog: PHP's Output Buffering
  
• Lukas Smith's Blog: Loose interface coupling
  
• DevArticles.com: Singletons in PHP
  

Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.06.2012

Recent releases from the Packagist:

• clio/clio (0.1.3)
  
• bcen/yauc (0.0.3, 0.0.2, 0.0.1)
  
• triagens/ArangoDb (1.0.1, v1.0.1)
  
• unknownbliss/zurb-foundation-bundle (3.2.3.2, 3.2.3.1, 3.2.3)
  
• illuminate/foundation (v1.1.2, v1.1.1)
  
• illuminate/http (v1.1.1)
  
• illuminate/database (v1.1.1)
  
• dotsunited/bundlefu (v1.0.1)
  
• zenstruck/content-bundle (v1.2.0)
  
• unknownbliss/bootstrap-bundle (2.2.1.1)
  
• foolz/sphinxql-query-builder (0.8.3)
  
• mandrill/mandrill (1.0.10)
  
• nelmio/alice (1.1.0)
  
• doctrine/mongodb (1.0.0-BETA3, 1.0.0-BETA2)
  
• fishmarket/instaphp (1.0.0)
  
• manymules/requirejs-bundle (2.1.2)
  
• manymules/lodash-bundle (1.0.0-rc2)
  
• manymules/json2js-bundle (2012-10-08)
  
• manymules/underscorejs-bundle (1.4.3)
  
• gnugat/soul-me-maybe (1.1.3)
  
• backend/core (0.5.3.1, 0.5.3)
  
• meenie/munee (1.2.0)
  
• gregwar/slidey-standard (v0.5)
  
• groupdocs/groupdocs-php (v1.2.1)
  
• bca/curl (2.1.2)