Posts Tagged ‘php’
August 6th, 2008 by Dominic Hodgson
Announced yesterday, the PHPNW Community has gotten its act together and announced they are having a conference, Lorna Jane (one of the organisers) has written a cracking blog post about it so I’ll just link you there.
The event is aimed at people working with, or wanting to work with, PHP in the north of England. We’ll have a selection of sessions, with the technical content intended to be accessible to a whole range of audiences - it will also be multi-track so there’s sure to be plenty of material to interest you, whatever your background.
So November 22nd (which is about a week after my Birthday (hint hint) ), at Manchester Central, if your looking for something to do in the meantime, join the mailing list or they are on freenode in #phpnw.
July 23rd, 2008 by Dominic Hodgson
Manchester based developer Phil Thompson has launched his “super secret web app”, Cart45, set to “do for ecommerce what WordPress did for blogging.”, The store (which costs £200 £50 at the moment, special offer!!) has a decent set of features out of the box
- Plain text URL’s (e.g. www.mycart.com/category-name/my-great-product)
- Automatic page Title Generation relevant to page, category and product
- Meta tag generation and control of the description field
- Automatic Google Sitemap Generation (and updating)
- Integration with Google Analytics
- Preview of your website’s appearance in Google results to help with optimisation
- Page creation
- News Feeds
- Tagging System
- Product Reviews
- Digital Download Support
- API to create your own additions
There is a demo available and the default theme looks pretty sweet (although the intro text states that its easy to change if you don’t like it, hopefully it will be better than a default OScommerce template).
Requirements : PHP5+, MySQL 5+ and good ol` Apache (with I assume modrewrite enabled).
July 13th, 2008 by Dominic Hodgson
After you’ve become zend qualifed you can chat with other PHP enthusiasts in the first PHPNW (PHP North West User Group), where else could it be but a Casino.. woo, anyone who wants to attend needs to email this bloke jeremy@phpnw.org.uk by tuesday to get your name on the list… cos if your names not on the list, you ain’t coming in, you also need to be a member of the casino 24 hours before or something silly like that..
Date : Thursday 17th July
Time : 6pm
Food : Drinks / nibbles (pizza) for first community get-together
Location : Manchester 235 Casino Complex
The website is located at http://www.phpnw.org.uk/ however it seems they arn’t as agile as as the http://nwrug.org/ since theres nothing there yet..
June 29th, 2008 by Dominic Hodgson
Leeds Based Co-Working facility; Old Broadcasting House, and NTi Leeds (A Leeds based training company (fancy that!)) have partnered with Zend.. the PHP guys, to train folks in the north in the good old way’s of everyone’s favourite programming / coding / scripting language.
The release goes on to tell us about PHP and why it’s “so damn cool™” (it doesn’t really say that but my mind wonders after reading huge chunks of text like that.)
Topics covered in the Foundations course include variable basics, control flow basics and functional basics; while Higher Structures includes configuring PHP, regular expressions and PHP and OOP concepts. Issues covered in the Higher Structures course include strings and RegEx, PHP 4/5 differences and XML and web services.
No course dates are announced yet but its aimed at
providers such as ISPs, support staff and users plus students; with levels of qualification covering Foundations of PHP, Higher Structures of PHP and Certification Training, and all courses last for three days.
so pretty much everyone right?
(if you haven’t guessed, the title is a joke since this blog runs on PHP… please keep the hate mail to a minimum)
