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Here is a complete Google AppEngine + YUI Mashup for ye All

Download the zip file (lamp.zip) and update on ur own Google App Engine Domain.

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The Bakery has posted several new components, tutorials and articles recently. Here’s a list of the most recent:

• Polymorphic Behavior
• LastRSS CakePHP Component
• SMS Text Component
• Automagic JavaScript Validation Helper
• ACL Behavior
• Prototip Helper
• SimpleAcl component tutorial

Check out The Bakery for more great CakePHP-related content.

Matthew Turland has a few things to say about web scraping (and recent articles covering it) on his blog today as an author of a previous article published in php|architect covering the same topic:

A friend of mine who shall remain nameless pointed a post out to me on the PHP DZone web site recently. Noting that the article’s content was misinformed at best and downright ignorant at worst, even when examining it sheerly from the author’s knowledge of PHP as a language, this friend asked that I set the author straight.

He mentions his comments on the post correcting the author on some points as well as a more “clued in” post on the xml.lt website talking about using PHP’s DOM functionality instead.

Vinu Thomas talks about a platform on his blog today that can be used to create PHP applications to live on a S60 phone.

If you’d like to work on your favorite PHP apps on your S60 phones, here’s PAMP - Personal Apache, MySQL and PHP. This is implemented on the Symbian OS using Open C, which is a set of industry-standard POSIX and middleware C libraries for S60.

The PAMP system is pretty easy to install and guides can be found over on the dev.mobi website to help get you started. You can download the latest version of the project from its SourceForge website.

On the Make Me Pulse blog, there’s a look at PHP6’s support of Unicode in the SPL (Standard PHP Library) TextIterator handler.

I’ve just install the last version of PHP6 dev and I’ve decided to test the famous new feature, the PHP Unicode Support. I will not explain new things about PHP6 or Unicode or TextIterator, it’s just my discoveries test on this features.

He steps through the process he followed - enabling Unicode support, testing various output methods (including just an echo and using the TextIterator) as well as some of the manipulation methods (next/first/current) that can be used to get certain characters out of a string.

The Developer Tutorial site has an introduction to PHP-GTK2 posted - an overview of what the new version (version 2) is and how you can install and use it to develop desktop applications.

PHP-GTK 2 is out, and with it, a fantastic means for PHP developers to build useful, reliable cross-platform desktop applications. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to get up and running with PHP-GTK in no time and build your first desktop application.

They look at qhat it is, getting started with it and making your first application (a simple little “Hello World” output box). They also point out some of the demos you can grab as examples and show you how to make something a little more powerful - a window with an input form that generates an md5 hash.

On his blog today, Stefan Mischook compares two of the popular component libraries out there - PEAR and the Zend Framework (yes, it can be considered a grouping of components too).

Now that the Zend Framework is ready for ‘prime time’, Ive been considering the Pear framework with regards to how it now fits in the PHP world.

He suggests that not could both be considered component libraries, but might also both be frameworks (based on a definition that a framework is a “consistent set of components that are designed to work together in a unified manner”). He also asks about the need for something like PEAR now that the Zend Framework has come along, getting Jonathan Lebensold’s opinion too.

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Pieter’s Blog: Zend_Form with XML Tutorial
• C7Y: ProPHP Podcast - Newscast 03.06.2008
• Site News: Making the Move to the Solar Framework
• Chris Hartjes’ Blog: My framework is more MVC than *your* framework!
• PHPBuilder.com: The Ternary Conditional Operator
• PHPWomen.org: PHPWomen at PHPLondon
• Site News: Job Postings for the week of 03.08.2008
• Job Posting: Crave Online Seeks PHP/LAMP Developer (Los Angeles, CA)
• Developer Tutorials Blog: Give Your Visitors a Relative Time
• Christian Wenz’s Blog: Zend Studio for Eclipse 6.0 Released (and Zend Studio 5.5.1, too)