The relaunch of the Swiss TV news site SF Tagesschau is based on eZ publish. Now, a 11 pages case study has been published, written by me and my colleague Marcus Rölz. The document explains the most important features and also provides some screenshots.

Yet, the case study is only available in German.

The relaunch of the Swiss TV news site SF Tagesschau is based on eZ publish. Now, a 11 pages case study has been published, written by me and my colleague Marcus Rölz. The document explains the most important features and also provides some screenshots. Yet, the case study is only available in German.

The relaunch of the Swiss TV news site SF Tagesschau is based on eZ publish. Now, a 11 pages case study has been published, written by me and my colleague Marcus Rölz. The document explains the most important features and also provides some screenshots. Yet, the case study is only available in German.

Zend has issued a press release today announcing their split from the PHP group in order to pursue their own branch of the popular web development language.

Andi Gutmans, Co-founder and Vice President of Zend, is quoted as saying: It's about time we finally made the move. All of those people whining constantly about 'PHP is broken here - make it better' and 'Why can't you fix my favorite function so it works better?' Frankly, we at Zend are tired of it, and we're not gonna take it anymore.

Neither Zeev Suraski or Marc Andreessen could be reached for comment on this branch, but sources say that the entire company is behind this move. Branching off to create their own "Zend PHP" allows them to integrate their recently released (preview version) of Framework more closely and give it the power it needs to surpass the original PHP distribution.

I sent the following two patches to sdk-public today (hoping they can make it into 3.8 still): The first one is rather simple really: "the attached patch adds choice for ascending or descending (current behavior, which makes sense for sort by published but not really for sort by name) sorting."   The second one is somewhat more complex: " Editor's little helper this patch adds the "editcreate_object" toolbox widget. It basically offers, to anyone who has the rights for a given action, to edit, remove or create new objects and can either be displayed in right toolbar or top/bottom toolbar. Note: it doesn't come with thumbnails for admin interface as I'm no graphics artist."

Just a short pointer to the Firebug Firefox extension which I've been using for a few days now and found invaluable. It's sort of like the Webdev Toolbar we all know and love but with focus on AJAX and CSS/DOM information. Definitely recommended!  

April is almost here and it is time for an update of this week's happenings This week we bring you news about new eZ publish sub-releases, an update about 3.8 development process, together with an update on the current bug status.

From the Zend Developer Zone today, there's the continuation of their "Blueprint for PHP Applications" series, this time focusing on bootstrapping (part 1).

The definition (of bootstrapping) from Wikipedia has more flair to it than I can probably give this article, but nonetheless bootstrapping is an incredibly important part of a PHP web application. It is the ignition, the launch-pad, the booster rockets, and even the safety gear for our trip through PHP Best Practices. Without a well designed bootstrap, our application will never get off the ground.

The general idea behind the bootstrapping is forcing all of the requests to a domain to be funneled through a central script and branching out from there. They talk about how to use Rewrite rules to accomplish this and how to set the setup. He finishes the post off by bringing it back to the layout of the application, pointing out where it fits in.

I was looking for solution how to place comments form below weblog entry in eZ publish so I decide to create custom action. I will try to explain how to define custom Action in eZ publish which create new comment object.

I've just updated my regular expression datatype, regexpline, to version 2.1. The latest version of this eZ publish extension brings you these changes: Enhanced contentclass view template Fixed naming pattern if no subpatterns have been defined Fixed display of object content when using it as a line field Possible fix for excessive whitespace when using text block mode Removed debug Added [...]