Posted on Fri 10 February 2006 in Databases • Tagged with DB2, PHP
The stable release of the ibm_db2 PECL extension for IBM DB2, Cloudscape, and Apache Derby brought a high performing, highly functional database connectivity alternative to Unified ODBC for PHP 4 and 5 users. However, in and of itself a database extension does not enable you to use the many …
Poor Steph -- the author of the Zend Weekly Summaries of the action on the php-internals mailing lists hardly ever hears praise for her efforts, but suffers a barrage of weeklies! cries on IRC if she happens to be a few weeks behind. Suffice to say that her weeklies don' t …
At the end of November, I received a copy of `No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/097524020X/coffeecode-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1>`__, written by Thomas Myer, from Sitepoint Press. With our move to the Great White North in December …
Harry Fuecks made some interesting observations on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern of application development as it applies to Web applications in a very long post called MVC and web apps: oil and water:
What I'm really trying to say here is I think the desire for MVC on the server …
Wez beat me to it: I noticed this weekend that Oracle had named him as the PHP Developer of the Year. Part of this is undoubtedly due to the work Wez put into improving the OCI driver and creating the PDO_OCI driver for Oracle -- and that's good for Oracle …
The slides for my php|works 2005 presentation, LIMIT
Yourself to MySQL No
More, are
now online. I'll update this entry once I actually get through talking
through the slides 
:
The talk went really well, despite my initial fears that I was running over much of the same …
php|arch is donating the profits from the sale of their new Pocket PHP Reference (would that be &Pocket then?) to the Canadian Red Cross fund for Hurricane Katrina relief. Buy early, and you may get one of the 50 copies autographed by Rasmus himself. I suppose there's even a …
Until very recently, the entire set of PDO documentation, including the docs for seven different database drivers, was contained within the PDO documentation. While this was fine in the early days of PDO when there were only a handful of users, as PHP 5.1 starts entering the era of …
One quick highlight from OSCON: on Tuesday night, right after my tutorial, I was lucky enough to attend the Portland PHP User's Group, where they had arranged an all-star PHP line up, including Rasmus, Andrei, Wez, Marcus, Ilia, George, Laura, Adam, Ben, Luke, Shane, John, Stefan, Terry, and Chris-- well-documented …
Just wanted to point out that Zend Core for IBM is now generally available. If you need to get up and running with PHP and DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, this is a pretty cool free package that will make your life pretty easy on Linux (x86, x86-64, POWER …