After recent complaints in the PHP-GTK mailing list, auroraeosrose mentioned mgdm has set up a SVN repository for the docs, to ease working on them.
This new repository is available at
http://svn.thefrozenfire.com/phpgtkdoc/
I just found out a very strange PHP feature by browsing the PHP-GTK2 API with the Reflection classes : spaces can be used in some alien places, like variable names.
But the doc says you can't !
Well, try this in PHP 5.2.5, for instance:
With OSInet focusing more heavily now on Drupal services, the company is now offering internships for students interested in working on Drupal.
First things first, I've offered to mentor for the Google Summer of Code, and would be specifically interested if a student picked up the live Drupal backup project if it came to be approved.
With OSInet having a large part of its business with suppliers and customers within the EU at large, I often find myself having to check the validity of the VAT information for third parties, and the EU VIES database comes in handy.
However,
although I had been discussing remote access
using XML-RPC or SOAP as early at 2004 with the database
administrators, the UI had remained web 1.0-only until quite
recently (apparently march 2007), when an
AXIS
SOAP service went online, just as I had suggested three years
ago. So I figured I really couldn't let the occasion pass, and did a
PHP-GTK client to VIES, which happens to be my first production
SOAP application in PHP-GTK, previous ones having always been
done in Pascal using Delphi or Kylix.
Let's see how this can be done... (code updated 2010-09-21)
I had been in need of a class to read config data into both the
PHP-GTK OSInet back-office front end, and the back-office client UI
for the Drupal 5.x offload module, and hesitated
between various solutions, ranging from roll-our-own to the various
frameworks out there and the existing PEAR packages.
Since
Zend Framework appears
to be well on its way to becoming a standard for professional
PHP developers, I figured I'd give it a spin :
A discussion these days on the
PHP-GTK general mailing list
revolved around the issue of feeding a large amount of rows to
the model bound to a GtkTreeView.
The problem: while coding PHP-GTK apps, the most elementary
debugging method is to use echo or
print statements. These are fine and dandy for
english or usonian coders, but may be a problem for coders
elsewhere around the globe, since PHP scripts are typically
stored under UTF-8 encoding to limit i18n headaches, while the
console in which their output will be displayed is normally configured
to some regional encoding, like IBM850 in Windows/XP French.
So we need a workaround...
The new Drupal-based community site for PHP-GTK is up at http://www.php-gtk.eu.
Technically, this is pretty much a plain Drupal 5.0
Beta 1 Beta 2 RC1 RC2
site, using the new Garland theme without custom changes
besides a much needed fix, and a site-specific
module for things like useful referer counting and the PHP-GTK dev geolocation
service.
Zend Studio is a convenient environment to code in PHP, even though it is not currently possible to use it for integrated debugging of PHP-GTK code: its php completion and file management, and phpdoc integration make it very useful for the PHP-GTK environment too. However some settings are necessary to ease its use, due to the specific extensions typically used by PHP-GTK programs: phpw files for applications, and glade / gladep for Glade files storing UIs.
The function of the GtkCTree, GtkCList and other associated components has been overhauled in GTK2, meaning PHP-GTK now has a very thoughtfully detailed mechanism for building trees and lists, more or less following an MVC model.