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In Case You Missed It... The Week of May 16, 2005
Elizabeth Naramore
Let's see what's been happening the past week:
php|tropics Wrap-Up
Yet another fabulous PHP Conference that I was unable to attend has wrapped up, and you can get all the scoop from the speakers:

Free T-shirt from Zend
According to a blog post from John Coggleshall earlier in the week, Zend is giving away free t-shirts for evaluating the Zend Platform and filling out a survey. While there is nothing on the Zend site confirming this, you can read John's blog entry here: http://blog.coggeshall.org/archives/198_Want_a_free_PHP_T-shirt.html.
Another Bug Fix for phpBB
If you haven't upgraded to 2.0.14 yet, don't worry. There is now a 2.0.15 that includes one more bug fix. If you have already upgraded, you can make the quick change yourself. Details can be found at http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=290149.
PHP Advanced Transfer Manager Security Alert
If you're using this software, you should be aware of a recent alert from Secunia. A highly critical bug, which is yet unpatched, exists, preying on unvalidated file types. For more information, read the advisory from Secunia at http://secunia.com/advisories/15279/.
WordPress v. 1.5.1 Released
Developers of WordPress have announced the release of the latest in this popular blog software: version 1.5.1 is available for immediate download. Upgrades include bug fixes and a major security fix, as well as new API hooks and functionality. To read more about what's new, go to http://wordpress.org/development/.
George Schlossnagle Shows us WSDL from a PHP5 Class
There was an interesting blog entry from George Schlossnagle, which gives us a sneak peek to WSDL_Gen. This is basically a PHP5 class that generates WSDL (Web Services Description Language). Read more about this and download the class (still in Alpha state) at http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/blog/index.php?/archives/234-WSDL-Generation.html or WSDL at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.
Open Source Event's PHP Security Conference Announced
This one-day fun-filled seminar touts some big names in PHP and Open Source Security: Bruce Perens, Chris Shiflett, Christian Wenz, Tom Robinson, and Chris Hubbard. Cost is $150, it will be held on June 11, 2005, and you can register or read more about it by going to http://store.osevents.com/product_info.php?products_id=1.
O'Reilly Announces the First Annual EuroOSCON
This conference will be held on October 17-20, 2005 in Amsterdam. If you think you know your stuff, the CFP comes with a May 23rd deadline. For more info, go to http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/eurooscon/create/e_sess (I wonder if they know that Zend's conference is October 18-21... interesting).
PEAR/PECL releases
Latest PEAR releases include:
  • Console_Getargs - A command-line arguments parser
  • Crypt_RSA - Provides RSA-like key generation, encryption/decryption, signing and signature checking
  • HTML_Progress - How to include a loading bar in your XHTML documents quickly and easily.
  • Mail_IMAPv2 - Provides a c-client backend for webmail.
  • Net_NNTP - Implementation of the NNTP protocol
  • PEAR_PackageFileManager_GUI_Gtk - A PHP-GTK frontend for the PEAR_PackageFileManager class.
  • PHPUnit - Regression testing framework for unit tests.
  • PHP_Compat - Provides missing functionality for older versions of PHP
  • XML_RPC - PHP implementation of the XML-RPC protocol

And at PECL were:

  • big_int - big_int library provides a set of functions for calculations with arbitrary length integers and bitsets
  • Xdebug - Provides functions for function traces and profiling
  • xdiff - File differences/patches.

As always, you can download or learn more about these packages at http://pear.php.net/ and http://pecl.php.net/.

See you next week with more news and tidbits from the PHP world!