A new book that teaches users a step-by-step introduction to rapid web development using the MVC CakePHP framework has been announced by Packt Publishing. Written by Anupom Syam and Ahsanul Bari, the book aims to assist PHP programmers to develop and deploy well-crafted and robust web-based applications with the open source MVC CakePHP framework.

CakePHP is an open source web application framework written in PHP. It uses well-known design patterns and provides a structured framework that enables PHP users to develop robust web applications, without any loss of flexibility. The user can code faster, better, and it makes writing Web 2.0-style applications easier.

The book introduces the user to installing the MVC Framework and building his first application, and follows with looking at each main component of a CakePHP application in detail. The book also teaches how to build Web 2.0 style applications using a case study application. PHP Magazine Readers can download freely the chapter 4 Controllers: Programming. Application Logic [PDF 909KB]

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PHPEclipse 1.2.0 have just been released to include support for XDebug. This release is targeted for Eclipse 3.3 and fix several bugs. PHPEclipse runs on all the major OS platforms and has the following features:

• Syntax Coloring
• Brackets Matching
• Code folding
• Code Completion
• Parameter hints
• Mark Occurrences
• Hover Tooltips
• PHP Manual integration
• Code templates
• XDebug support
• DBG Support
• CVS
• SVN++
• SSH/SFTP ++
• FTPS ++

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Today, BYPsoft announced the availability of DBTyP.NET 2008 Release 3, the newest version of the cross-database comparison tool that compares SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle databases (schema and data). DBTyP.NET 2008 Release 3 is available for download from http://www.bypsoft.com.

With its rich support for schema and data cross-database comparison, DBTyP.NET takes the mystery out of databases, making their comparison practical and easy for programmers and database administrators everywhere. Over and above its powerful comparison capabilities till now, BYPsoft added to the DBTyP.NET 2008 support for schema comparisons for Oracle databases. Full cross database comparison family includes now support for SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle databases in the latest release of DBTyP.NET 2008 for a fraction of the cost of single-database solution.

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TheDevShop Ltd today announced the release of dbQwikSite Developer Edition, a special edition of its popular website building software targeting the advanced needs of web developers and web designers.

What is dbQwikSite?

dbQwikSite is a web code generator producing dynamic web pages that interact with an online database.

dbQwikSite’s advanced code generation creates all the scripts for web pages to display, search and edit online database content. Using dbQwikSite users focus on the design and flow of their web pages rather than the syntax of web scripting. To create a web site, users choose the design options that they want using an integrated page designer and wizards.

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Zend Developer Zone have an interesting article about building dashboard with PHP and Flex written by Jack Herrington. In this article Jack explores - using a combinations of different technologies including PHP, Flex, ILOG Elixir, AMFPHP, and FlexLib - the possibility to create an advanced 3D interactive graph to show your website traffic.

Let's face it: Interactive graphs and dashboards have never been easy to put together on the web. Sure, there are graphing libraries out there for PHP, but to get something that looks really good and that a user can play with has been tough. Or at least, it was yesterday. Today, I show how to use a combination of PHP for the back end and Adobe Flex for the front end that will put interactive 3D within your grasp. Right now.

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If you are used to work with revision control tools such as Git, CVS or Subversion, you might be interested to Mercurial, a lightweight revision control solution, easy to learn and use, scales excellently and easily customizable. I was using CVS, then migrated to SVN during the last years, and really noticed the difference between the two solutions. But there are many missing features in SVN, for example to track merges between branches in history, resolve conflicts, ...etc. In Mercurial you can easily import revision history from a Subversion repository as well from CVS, Git and Darcs, so you can test and see yourself the performance before to decide to switch. This have been said, SVN remain better if you are working with binary files.

Another advantage in Mercurial is its documentation and built-in help. You will find yourself quickly very friendly with "hg" commands, to clone, commit, push, pull, update, ... etc over a local repository or a network. Major features of Mercurial include :

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