Package: myYouYube Summary: Manage and display videos from YouTube Groups: Content management, PHP 5, Video Author: Jos?© Augusto Ferreira Franco Description: This class can be used to manage and display videos from YouTube in Web pages. It can store the details of a video from YouTube on a MySQL database, like the video identifier, comments and ratings. The class can also retrieve the video details stored in the database and generate HTML tags to display the video embedding it in a Web page. Read more…

Package: MYDB Class Summary: Execute MySQL queries from lists of parameters Groups: Databases Author: Mustafa Berkan BICER Description: This class can be used to build and execute MySQL database SQL queries from lists of parameters. It opens a connection to a MySQL database and can build and execute several types o SQL queries: - SELECT queries given the table, list of fields and an optional condition clause - INSERT or UPDATE queries given the table, list of fields and values and an optional condition clause for UPDATE queries - DELETE queries given the table and an optional condition clause Read more…

Package: KG MySQL Class Summary: Simple MySQL database access wrapper Groups: Databases, PHP 5 Author: Muharrem ERIN Description: This class is a simple MySQL database access wrapper. It can: - Connect to a given MySQL host - Choose the database to access - Execute SQL queries eventually returning the last inserted record identifier - Retrieve query results into objects or whole result sets into array Read more…

Tracking licenses and code use throughout the whole software dev lifecycle is the product's focus. Read more…

Taking more time to complete than Microsoft anticipated, SQL Server 2008's schedule is pushed back by a quarter. Read more…

Much more remains to be done as the W3C continues its work on the next HTML standard. Read more…

Building on its existing partnership, Facebook brokers a deal to help out one of its most valuable assets. Read more…

New release delivers write-throttling, scheduling and real-time-friendly features. Read more…

The Developer Tutorials blog has a new post mentioning the use of YAML structure for creating configuration files in your application. YAML, or YAML Ain't Markup Language, is a "human friendly data serialization standard". It's essentially a very basic format for storing data, and uses far less syntax than standard PHP. [...] It's almost like English; it's as basic as you want. Of course, that's not to say it doesn???„?t support complex structures - this example demonstrates the power of the format. He also points out the spyc extension that makes working with the files in PHP a breeze. Read more…

Wez Furlong posted a request for comments to the php.internals and php.pdo mailing lists yesterday about a new ly proposed update to the current PDO functionality - PDO 2. He just wants to clear up a few things... It became apparent over the past year or so that PDO has been a good and valuable addition to PHP. [...] We believe that having direct involvement from the data access providers would be most effective, which is why we set out to try and get them on board. There were three steps they would need to make to push things to version two (documentation, define scope/direction and organize data provider integration methods) and the proposal that has caused a huge stir in the community - the idea of requiring a CLA contributors would need to sign. Comments to this point from the community include: Richard Thomas Antony Dovgal some of Wez's own comments Mike Willbanks Christopher Jones Lukas Smith Paul Jones Pierre-Alain Joye Read more…