This week we, bring to you news about the next eZ publish sub-releases, the eZ components documentation, the eZ publish Portuguese Community, a new article section on ez.no and the list of new and modified bugs of this week.

Let's be honest - the guys over at bugtraq, full-disclosure and others make fun of us PHP people. Chorizo ScreenshotNot only do we provide the dramatis personae - be it phpBB, the Nuke family or XMLRPC, we also deliver remote code execution, XSS or SQL injections right to the security peoples' doorstep. Why does this happen? Are we all dumbnuts? That's not the explanation - at least not all of it.

In the history of PHP, users and ISPs have always been nice and friendly like our grandma. Their continued support even in rough times ensures PHP's ongoing success, so we shouldn't let them down and ignore everything they say (like we do with our grandmas).

Enter Chorizo, an easy-to-use, speedy little proxying bit of software that looks at the data coming through and finds whatever issues it can. It looks at where "web applications get interactive" instead of just spidering the sites, and checks multiple kinds of attacks including: XSS, SQL injections, code inclusions, code executions, HTTP response splitting, and many more. It's not open to the public just yet, but you can preregister to have an active account just as soon as it goes live.

Eclipse simplifies the process of deploying your site to a web server. You can even use Ant, traditionally thought of as a Java tool, to help you in the deployment.

Once again, Eclipse simplifies our work by including several tools that aid us in this process.

The key to deployment in Eclipse is the export function. Eclipse gives us many options in exporting our site. First, we will look at FTP, an old and common method of moving files.

They cover how to set up an FTP site inside the editor, making it a simple process to upload any chnages you've made instantly. They also discuss other methods like SFTP, WebDAV, and Ant support the client can adapt itself to. There are screenshots along the way to help you through each step, including some from other operating systems where the setup might be a bit different.

Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, has announced an updated version of Zend Core for Oracle, which supports businesses using PHP for mission-critical Web applications by delivering a reliable, high performance, easy-to-install PHP development and production environment fully integrated with the Oracle Database 10g.The new release is validated with Oracle Database 10g Release 2, including the Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE).

In addition to validation of Oracle Database 10g Release 2, the update to Zend Core for Oracle has enhanced support for Oracle Procedural Language for SQL (PL/SQL) collection types, giving significantly improved performance. Developers can access PL/SQL directly from PHP in a single, fully integrated environment.

You can download this latest update directly from the Zend site

From now on, Portuguese-speaking eZ publish users can share their information on a new community site: www.ezbrasil.com.br. They will find a main tutorial teaching how to set up an eZ publish site and will have the opportunity to contribute on the forums, to write articles and much more.

SQLite is a small library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine. Features include: Transactions are atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable, Zero-configuration, Database files can be freely shared, Supports databases up to 2 terabytes, and many more.

Why would I need this? If you want to have the advantages of a SQL database, without having to install a separate system such as mysql or postgres. It has also been demonstrated to work on websites getting more than 1,000,000 hits per day.

The installation section is a bit short on the details, but does briefly cover both the unix and windows sides. Also included is a brief example of how to make a query on a SQLite database via the PHP functions compiled in.