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PHP Magazine August-September issue (04.04)
http://www.php-mag.net/itr/ausgaben/psecom,id,204,nodeid,112.html
If you run an online business with a global reach, then Geopositioning is
a technology you cannot afford to ignore. GeoIP is gaining prominence in
today's Internet marketplace -- be it the need to smoke out credit card
frauds, precisely target a potential customer (to the last granular
detail), or embark on geographyspecific advertising. In our Cover
Story, Robert Peake attempts to find that space behind cyberspace, using
Geopositioning techniques in PHP.
Starting this issue, Amy Hoy begins her column for the novitiates - in the
first in a series that aims to help you to get your first steps right,
Beginner's Ahoy! will show you how to create organized code. Remember
Richard Davey's article on organized code written from the particular
perspective of using open source software (Issue 03.04, International PHP
Magazine)? If that article showed you how to gain a better understanding
of the overall quality of a PHP script, then this column will take you
further by putting you through an Organized Code Bootcamp.
There have been many discussions on how state detection and management can
be facilitated through the use of session variables, but very few that
discuses alternatives. Well, Matthew Perkins does just that - his
suggestions on creating well-designed, multi-state search wizards that use
a single PHP script, will go a long way in helping you create
well-encapsulated code with reduced redundancy, low maintenance costs, and
high flexibility.
These days, it's all about Web applications integrating perfectly into a
heterogeneous environment of legacy applications and off-the-shelf
software components, and PEAR's LiveUser package is an invaluable tool in
this world of Web apps. In his article, Lukas Smith dissects
PEAR::LiveUser, expounding on its architecture and its out-of-the-box
functionality.
Hans Lellelid's article works backwards - in the last issue (Issue 03.04,
International PHP Magazine) Hans showed us how Phing can help handle
complex installation or build procedures. He later told us that it was the
need to have a PHP 5 build system for Propel, an exciting new PHP 5
application, which got him involved with Phing development. So, what
better a follow-up? In this issue, he talks about Propel, an
objectrelational mapping tool that lets you stop worrying about
(and writing) SQL statements and lets you access your database using the
language feature of PHP you like best: objects.
Harry Fuecks talks about how XML can be used to simplify the process of
building desktop and Web-based UIs. In the first of this two-part series,
he explores how declarative XML markup can be used to simplify the job of
building desktop GUIs. Despite the incredible number of PHP functions
tailored to Web development and the wide availability of free code,
creating a Web application is still a labour intensive task.
Also in this issue, Daniel Convissor presents an overview of the sweet new
features in the PEAR DB 1.6.x releases, which focus on portability,
allowing you to write applications that can be used with a wide variety of
database back-ends.
For a full list of the articles in Issue 04.04, go here:
http://www.php-mag.net/itr/ausgaben/psecom,id,204,nodeid,112.html
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