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This is a quick report on my first trial as a local group coach for the PHP TestFest 2009 for the PHP Perú group. Assistance: 20 people (all more or less PHP developers, some very fresh) Preparation time: about 6 hours of readings, downloading, slides preparation, etc Teaching time: 2 x 1/2h.

Thanks to an interesting article by Zoe Slattery (who works at IBM UK but is well known in the PHP Community for her work on the QA Team) in PHP Architect, I got into an attempt (at least) at preparing a participation to the PHP TestFest 2009. This article is an attempt at explaining briefly the steps undertaken.

Un  lunes 09 de marzo di mi examen de certificación Zend Recuerdo que hace un tiempo leí el libro de certificación de PHP4. Pero el exámen del 5 es muy diferente. Simplemente quiero compartir la experiencia y darle algunas recomendaciones a quienes se piensen certificar. Esta certificación no se trata de evaluar funciones memorizadas.

It has been my understanding, since a few years back, that setting

php_admin_value error_reporting "E_ALL"

inside my Apache's VirtualHost configuration actually permitted to set the error reporting to all types of error. Recently, upgrading Ubuntu from 8.04 to 8.10 (I don't know exactly which versions of PHP5 that actually meant), several of our team have seen their error reporting disappear... I first thought this was related to XDebug, installed on all our computers, but disabling it didn't fix anything. After 2 hours of searching for pretty much any topic related

We've been looking for something like this for a week now, and someone just sent me a link (after I asked for something like this on the php-general mailing-list). http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2544.html I just wish they would have sent me that link a few days earlier... (but am happy they didn't do that a few days later).

This is a *very* short note, but I'm writing it down in case I would forget in the coming weeks. There is a language detection package available in the PEAR project, which might come handy in the future for Dokeos: http://pear.php.net/package/Text_LanguageDetect

In order to start offering Web Services inside Dokeos, I (and Stefaan Vanbillemont) have been testing out the SCA_SDO package from PECL (for PHP), that reportedly offers the possibility to deploy web services from existing functions only by including a common file and adding a bit of documentation "PHPDocumentor style" to the code. As we are using PHPDocumentor-like comments already, and have a lot of existing functions possibly offering all the services we would like to offer as web services, I thought SCA_SDO was a perfect match. The SDO-part of the extension will not be used in our contex

"PHP (recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML." See www.php.net. Using PHP is a matter of precision. ASP can be used to reach the same objectives but ASP has proven to us to be less interesting (see some of the reasons below, one of them being the licensing scheme).

Thomas Koch published a nice comment on the XDebug mailing-list recently.