David Ansermot Web Developer / TYPO3 Integrator

30nov/090

cURL : 10 way to use it

cURL is a PHP extension to communicate easily with other web sites. Libcurl extension will allow you to perform operations that you do not always have to think like submitting forms.

Jean-Baptiste Jung suggests in an article 10 ways to use the cURL extension.
The issues addressed are:

  • Updating Facebook status
  • Getting server's loading speed
  • Connection with mySpace
  • Post something on your WordPress blog
  • Checking url availability
  • Post on Twitter
  • And many more...

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30nov/090

TYPO3 Version 4.3 Released

BAAR, 2009-11-30Today the TYPO3 Association released the newest version of their outstandingly successful Open Source project TYPO3. TYPO3 has been downloaded over 4.1 million times – making it one of the world’s leading Enterprise Open Source projects.

The latest TYPO3 version 4.3 comes packed with numerous brand new features and improvements. Highlights include the completely new Frontend editing module and the integration of Extbase and Fluid. Additionally, TYPO3’s already excellent security features have been improved even further.

Read the full announce

30nov/090

Video Contest Extended!

The contest's deadline extended to the 4th december (UTC-8).
Remember, the winner of the contest wins a Flip Mino HD video camera, plus a one-year subscription to VideoPress!

Contest's page
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30nov/090

Black Friday 20 hour 20% off sale now on!

In the US there are some strange traditions, and one of them is the day after Thanksgiving when people line up from 3 or 4 in the morning to be the first people in a store when it opens to get some item for a really good price. This is ostensibly to get a head start on Christmas shopping.

If you're interested to see the full offer, go there

27nov/090

Zorba with PHP

Zorba is an application which conforms to the standard XQuery processor. Now Zorba proposes an extension to PHP which it is provided with the API.
With this new extension, new features in PHP appear, like this developer and development can add sophisticated treatment of XQuery for applications PHP / XML.
Vikram Vaswani offers a tutorial for using this extension, including the following:

  • Basic usage
  • Treatment sequences
  • Filtering and Sorting Data
  • Manipulations
  • Repos functions
  • Json functions

Zorba official site
Zorba PHP tutorial