In this new post on the SitePoint PHP blog today, Maarten Manders asks the question of whether the latest offerings from eZ Systems (the "components") are a threat to the Zend Framework still in development.

Just about a month ago Zend Technologies announced Zend PHP Framework in line with the Zend PHP Collaboration Project with the stated goal to offer a "de facto standard PHP Web application development and deployment environment".

While Zend is enjoying the attention in the PHP world, eZ systems determinedly worked on a very similar project called eZ components, of which a first beta version is to be released tomorrow Monday. Let’s have a closer look at what it has to offer and how it compares to Zend’s PHP Framework.

Stepping through the component framework, he notes the deisgn of it all, what the components are and how they're strutured, the license behind it all, and when it will all be made public. In his opinion, this offering from eZ Systems as trumped the Zend Framework - for now...

In his latest blog post today, Sebastian Bergmann looks at two of the major offerings that are avilibile to advanced PHP developers and some of the confusion surrounding them - the Zend Framework and eZ publish Enterprise Components.

There is a lot of discussion in the PHP Blogosphere about eZ systems' Enterprise Components for PHP and the Zend Framework that I do not quite understand.

I do not see a real competition between the two as one can use components from both and combine them and use them together.

He also mentions another similarity between the two - that they both use PHPUnit for their testing and results....

Il mio talk sull'architettura delle informazioni con ez publish è stato seguito da un pubblico curioso. Alla mia domanda se si studiasse "architettura delle informazioni" a scienze dell'informazione, c'è stata scena muta. Pochi sapevano di cosa si trattava, quindi ho avuto il piacere di introdurre degli studenti ad una disciplina che secondo me sarà chiave nel futuro.
Il talk di Ciccio era invece focalizzato all'estensione dei moduli di eZ publish e l'ho trovato molto chiaro e puntuale.
Alla fine abbiamo dato vita ad un micro-dibattito su eZ publish ed è stato molto interessante, a parte Fullo il guastatore che ha tentato di provocare i conferenzieri (senza successo).

Le slide del mio talk: Architettura delle informazioni con eZ publish (pdf)

Le slide del talk di Francesco Trucchia: eZ publish cms enterprise (pdf)

Update: qui trovate le foto del Linuxday a Cesena, comprese quelle che mi ritraggono impegnato nel talk.

This year eZ systems (the company that rents my brain) will organise the 4th edition of their conference. This year we broaden the scope a bit with an "Enterprise PHP" track. For this track, and the others (eZ publish and "Enterprise CMS"), we are looking out for interesting subjects.

If you think that you have a good subject, please have a look at our Call for Papers. The submission deadline for all proposals is January 16, 2006 and the conference will take place in Skien, Norway, from June 20-23, 2006.

I recieved a note today from the organizers behind the WebTech Conference today announcing the opening of their Call for Papers.

WebTech 2006 is in need of your talk. Usually talks are 20,40 or 60 minutes long. All topics which concerning web technologies in any way could possibly be of interest for a talk at the Conference.

The languages of the conference are Bulgarian and English. Please send us an abstract on your suggested talk. You can propose more than one topic if you like to.

The bastract needs to be about 1000-1500 characters long, and should provide a good overview of what you want to talk about. You can send them in either plain-text or PDF format to papers @ wtconferences.com. You can also visit their site for complete details...

The crew behind the International PHP Conference has released the Call for Papers for their 2006 (Spring Edition) conference in Amsterdam.

Software & Support Verlag (publishers of the International PHP Magazine) is pleased to announce the International PHP Conference 2006 (Spring Edition) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Call For Papers (CFP) is currently open, and you are encouraged to submit your proposals for various sessions at the conference. We are seeking proposals on indepth, cutting-edge topics that subscribe to the various tracks that we have lined up for the conference.

Some of the tracks for this year include: "General PHP", "PHP & Business/Integration", "PHP Extensions", and "PHP Security". The conference itself will happen April 4th and 5th with a pre-conference day on the 3rd of tutorials. To submit your information/proposal, head on over to their submission page and get your idea in today!

For complete details/specs on what the papers need to be like, check out the list here...

If you're writing a large library of code which you want to see other people used too, picking a license is a very important thing. We were standing for the same choice for our eZ components. Originally we were using the LGPL as this is more in line with the GPL that we currently use for eZ publish. Now just before the release of the first public beta (in a few days, stay tuned) we decided to switch to the New BSD license. We feel that choosing the New BSD license would make it easier for people to use the components library without having to worry about the restrictions of the LGPL.

The call for papers for next year's eZ publish Conference is out.

eZ is accepting proposals on the following topics:

• eZ publish
• Enterprise CMS
• Enterprise PHP

The submission deadline for all proposals is January 16, 2006.

eZ publish Conference 2006 will take place in Skien/Norway from June 20-23, 2006.

Of course, the eZ Enterprise Components [1] will be a hot topic there, as well as the forthcoming eZ publish 4.0.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

[1] Components from SVN Tutorial

On Nexen.net today, there's a large new list of PHP/MySQL application security alerts accumulated for this last week.

The list includes problems with: AlstraSoft Template Seller Pro, EasyPageCMS, Horde, Mambo, the PEAR Installer, PHP-Nuke, phpBB, phpMyAdmin, and PHPSysInfo.

For the complete list and links to more information about the issues, check out this full post...

Many congratulations go out to Wez Furlong for being awarded the "Oracle PHP Developer of the Year" award for 2005.

You may remember that Oracle Magazine were asking for nominations to honour people that have worked in some Oracle-related facility over the past year. Someone nominated me for the "PHP Developer of the year" category, and I "won" the award.

I'm normally a bit sceptical of awards because they're somewhat arbitrary and tend to be rather intangible, however, Oracle Magazine have gone the whole nine yards to counter that intangibility aspect. I suspect that I won the award as a result of my efforts in developing PDO, the PDO OCI driver and my role in the redesign of the oci8 extension.

He also mentions the work that Antony Dovgal has put in on the same extension as well. You can also check out the formal article on the topic...