Latest posts on the News: News of interest to Web developers http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/category/news/ 2013-05-21T21:54:38Z http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/category/news/ http://files.phpclasses.org/graphics/phpclasses/logo-phpclasses.png http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/162-Using-PHPGTK-to-serve-Web-Applications-to-HTML-5-Browsers.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/162-Using-PHPGTK-to-serve-Web-Applications-to-HTML-5-Browsers.html">Using PHP-GTK to serve Web Applications to HTML 5 Browsers</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">Yes, you read it right, GTK+, the Gnome Toolkit library, normally used to create desktop applications, can now be used to serve the same applications via the Web to a browser that supports HTML 5 canvas objects.<br /> <br /> PHP-GTK is a PHP extension that uses the GTK+ library to build PHP desktop applications. So it can eventually benefit for this GTK library enhancements to build PHP-GTK based applications that can be served over the Web to HTML 5 browsers.<br /> <br /> Read this article to learn more about GTK+ 3 HTML 5 canvas backend and how it could be used to run remote PHP-GTK applications that can be accessed over the Web.</a></div> </div> 2011-10-27T05:55:19Z http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/150-Top-10-PHP-54-features-to-vote.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/150-Top-10-PHP-54-features-to-vote.html">Top 10 PHP 5.4 features to vote</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">The process to release PHP 5.4 is moving on. Now it is the time to vote the features that should be included or not.<br /> <br /> Read this article to learn which are the features being voted for inclusion in PHP 5.4 and when the first release is expected to happen.</a></div> </div> 2011-06-22T10:41:43Z http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/149-New-PHP--Version-Fork.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/149-New-PHP--Version-Fork.html">New PHP Version Fork</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">A fork is a new version of a project that a separate group of developers that want to give the project a different route.<br /> <br /> A new PHP forked version was created by Robert Eisele to address needs that he felt were important.<br /> <br /> Read this article to know in more detail about this PHP fork.</a></div> </div> 2011-06-15T07:02:47Z http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/144-PHP-builtin-Web-server-PHP-536-and-PHPJS--Lately-in-PHP-podcast-episode-10.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/144-PHP-builtin-Web-server-PHP-536-and-PHPJS--Lately-in-PHP-podcast-episode-10.html">PHP built-in Web server, PHP 5.3.6 and PHP.JS - Lately in PHP podcast episode 10</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">PHP is going to come with a built-in Web server, so you will no longer need Apache or any other Web server software to run PHP applications. This is the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 10 of the Lately in PHP podcast.<br /> <br /> They also discuss other topics of interest to the PHP world, like the PHP 5.3.6 security bug fix release and the PHP.JS project, which is a JavaScript library that provides the same functions of PHP to write JavaScript applications.</a></div> </div> 2011-03-30T08:02:14Z http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/140-Does-Google-Chrome-OS-matter.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/140-Does-Google-Chrome-OS-matter.html">Does Google Chrome OS matter?</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">If you are a Web developer that is a question that you probably have been asking yourself since Google Chrome OS buzz started.</a></div> </div> 2011-01-25T11:01:16Z http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/136-AJAX-2-New-possibilities-offered-by-XMLHttpRequest-level-2-specification.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/136-AJAX-2-New-possibilities-offered-by-XMLHttpRequest-level-2-specification.html">AJAX 2: New possibilities offered by XMLHttpRequest level 2 specification</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">AJAX applications are often implemented using the XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object.<br /> <br /> XMLHttpRequest is getting a new specification named Level 2. This post is just a quick note about another interesting article about what new specification brings and how you can take advantage of it in your AJAX applications.</a></div> </div> 2010-11-23T06:09:51Z