If you are developing web sites using WordPress platform, you are probably facing deployment issues.  By deployment I mean activity when you are moving WP site from development server to a production one. It is a simple process, but it requires some database modifications, because of different domain/paths between both servers.

Well Ext Javascript library is great. No doubt about it. And because I am still using PHP for some of my projects, I wanted some abstraction over Ext for PHP. There was no such project for PHP at that time. So I decided to start-up with some small prototype (yes I am XP fan ). All worked quite well, and code base started to expand. But one day I realized that I am doing noting than rewriting Ext to PHP… That strange feeling did not came away and I decided to do something with it. Back to the trees…. So after some time spent by thinking about design and generally whole purpose and motivation to writing PHP helper for Ext library… And my conclusion was that I will write some helper framework for handling communication (JSON and XML) and to help generally with all but Javascript itself. Ext syntax is simple and nicely designed so why not use Ext syntax itself… So that was how ExtPHPUI was born…

With ExtPHPUI I am focusing on following features:

• simplicity
• security
• performance
• flexibility

These more server oriented features are not in the scope of Ext JS, so I decided to provide helpers to simplify Ext JS sever side development…

If anyone is interested in PHP development with Ext JS library or even ExtPHPUI and want to share some knowledge and experiences feel free to contact me. I will write some more information about this project later.

I know that this is not fresh news, but it is really important to me… PHP4 is dead! God bless. But it is not absolute true – it will be stinking around for some more time…

Yes I tried another PHP framework – CakePHP. I am quite familiar with Zend Framework and prefer it, but friends of mine are working on an interesting project using this CakePHP so I had to checkout what is going on there . It is another MVC framework inspired by RubyOnRails. More info can be found on project website. I did my first tests, first Helpers (to be exact DataGridHelper because I am lazy and like nice UI ) and continue to play with… Maybe I will release some Helpers and Components later. But have to say that my experiences with this framework are really good. I will report my later experiences too, while project and my knowledge of CakePHP will grow. Now back to the baking…

Bill Karwin, Product Engineering Manager for the Zend Framework announced Zend Framework Beta Release 0.9.0. From announcement:

This is the first Beta Release of Zend Framework. This marks a new milestone for the Framework project, because with the status of Beta, we are establishing the feature set for Zend Framework 1.0, and we are adopting a commitment to backward-compatibility and interface stability

You can download it from http://framework.zend.com/. Read full announcement here.