David and Katherine Goodwin

Some time ago, Packt publishing sent me this book to review. Here it is, being somewhat overdue!

ISBN: 978-2-847190-88-8
Author: Shu-Wai Chow
Title: PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects
Publisher: PacktPub.com
Number of pages: 278

My initial interest in this book was due to a requirement to "do" SOAP/XMLRPC etc. The book concentrates on creating a number of "mashups" (joining together remote web based services in one interface) which includes using :

Today was day 1 of LugRadio Live 2008 (UK edition).

Headline news - There will be more LugRadio Live conferences, and the implication of more LugRadio episodes.

As per normal, we met all the usual suspects, and had a good time. I only attended two talks - one on Women in Open Source, and the other was about bzr. Perhaps the schedule wasn't worded too well, but it was hard to get excited by any of the descriptions given - I needed more info goddamit!.

The following is effectively an online version of a talk I gave to phpwm in July 2008.

Disclaimer!

I'm no great expert on the inner workings of these protocols....there are probably secret manuals on SOAP/XmlRpc etc I/we failed to read somewhere

This is just a documentation of what I/we as “newbies” found ...

Today, I was giving a one-on-one PHP training course covering databases (we were trying to get mssql to work with PHP on Windows, but various factors seemed to conspire against us - possibly permissions related, as it seemed to refuse to allow us to select from a table that fricking well did exist.). Anyway, the amusing story was.....

I'm in the process of creating (or at least, thinking of creating) an XMLRPC interface to an existing (third party) application at work.

As with 'normal' web applications, I need to use HTTP sessions to support some form of persistence (e.g. to tell who a callee is) across requests.

My fictional API would ideally look something like the following :

Awaking at 3:30am, arriving in London at 8am and parking in a car park that would by the end of the day cost £41.50 (argh!), we went to the 2008 London php conference.

After an email out of the blue from someone at Packt publishing, here's a review of "Object-Orientated Programming with PHP5"

I don't think I've done a book review before, so apologies in advance if it's not structured in any logical manner.

Contents

Briefly summarised, the book's chapters are :

1. OOP vs Procedural Programming (what is OOP?, why?, differences between etc)
2. Kick Starting OOP (objects, inheritance, polymorphism etc)

The 2008 UKUUG Spring conference is coming up soon (well, 31st March to 2nd April). It's focus is large scale systems admin, but some of the talks look appealing to a wider audience (e.g. anti-spam). The good news is that it's in Birmingham, which seems to be attracting a few more technical events lately :)

Once again it's time to book tickets for London PHP Conference. Shame the price has gone up to 90 quid, but it should still be an excellent day out.

Just a quick note (and thanks to Tom for phoning me over this) - sorry if you've only been able to see garbage when viewing this site.

I believe the problem is down to me using Suhosin's ability to encrypt cookies and session data, combined with Drupal's caching system.

So, if you decide to enable 'suhosin.session.encrypt' or 'suhosin.cookie.encrypt' beware - you'll probably need to do the following too :

• Delete everything from the 'sessions' table of drupal