Packt is delighted to announce the release of PHP Ajax Cookbook, a collection of over 60 recipes with step-by-step directions to build SEO-friendly websites using standard Ajax tools.
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Training courses to make switching to OpenCms 8 easy
The new OpenCms 8 training courses of Alkacon Software provide the best possible introduction to OpenCms 8 development, right from the creators of OpenCms.
OpenCms 8 training courses are available at different skill levels and offer an introduction to the new OpenCms 8 concepts including Advanced Direct Edit, usage and creation of Templates, formatters and containers.
All Alkacon OpenCms courses have been developed specially for OpenCms and contain a variety of slides, lessons and exercises.
WordPress 3.2: Features and Video
This week, WordPress 3.2 became available to the public. According to Matt Mullenweg, "the focus for this release was making WordPress faster and lighter". While the new version of WordPress doesn't bring any revolutionary changes to blogging, it does move this CMS forward with confidence and style.
New features and changes in WordPress 3.2 include:
- A refreshed dashboard design that tightens the typography, design, and code behind the admin.
- The introduction of a HTML 5 theme,Twenty Eleven, that modern browser users will appreciate.
- A "just write" distraction-free writing or "zen mode" user interface.
- Minimum PHP version is now 5.2.4. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
- Minimum MySQL database version is now 5.0.
- Internet Explorer (IE6) and other outdated browsers are no longer supported.
As has been customary ever since I remember, WordPress 3.2 is also given the code name of one of the Jazz artists greats, this time "Gershwin". Enjoy the video, found below the fold, introducing WordPress 3.2.
Codelobster PHP Edition
Free PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript editor (IDE) - Codelobster PHP Edition
For valuable work on creation of sites you need a good comfortable editor necessarily. There are many requiring paid products for this purpose, but we would like to select free of charge very functional and at the same time of simple in the use editor - Codelobster PHP Edition .
Let us consider some important possibilities and advantages of this program:
Packt's new Concrete5 book
Packt is pleased to announce Concrete5 Beginner's Guide, a new book which helps developers get started with Concrete5 quickly and efficiently. Written by Remo Laubacher, this book helps readers familiarize themselves with all of Concrete5's features.
Concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. This makes the platform easy to use with a minimum of technical skills. Concrete5 also allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page.
Concrete5 Beginner's Guide guides reader’s right from the installation stage to the deployment process, thereby making it the only reference that they will need to create their new Concrete5 site. Developers will also learn how to install add-ons and themes to make their website aesthetically pleasing.
WordPress 3.2 plans begin to take shape
Mark Jaquith, a lead developer for Wordpress, recently posted on a WordPress developer's blog the plans for WordPress 3.2. Below are some of the changes and features Jaquith says will be on this new version of WordPress that caught my eye. My personal comments gave been added to the side.
- Faster release cycle than 3.1 - Project development the past few years must have been like molasses the past few years, because projects like WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and Mozilla Firefox are all promising quicker release cycles this year. They did appear to have their IE6 > IE7 "Sputnik" moment in 2010, didn't they?
- Faster and Lighter - Old code and outdated technologies are being dropped from WordPress. This move isn't just to improve performance but also also to improve the writing experience. You can expect some user experience changes here too with emphasis on "distraction free writing".
- List Tables API improvements - Finalize the API for third party use and more flexibility.
- PHP 5.2 (5.2.4, specifically) to be required - Unbelievable, I hadn't realized that WordPress hadn't dropped PHP 4 before this release. A number of open source projects already made the commitment from PHP 4 to PHP 5 a couple years ago. Oddly WordPress is "dropping the the old, not adding the new". Why wouldn't you embrace PHP 5 all the way?
- MySQL 5 to be required.- Relax on this one. I have yet to see a MySQL 5 upgrade requirement gone bad.
- Upgrade improvements - Changed-files-only upgrades can be done with zero changes to core.
[Found via Weblog Tools Collection]
OBLIQUID releases OOOGUI CMS
OOOGUI is a dynamic CMS that lets you define your data structure (objects, relations between objects, queries on objects), and lets you create public and private HTML pages to view and modify your contents. All through a WYSIWYG interface.
OOOGUI is multilingual, manages role based permissions, and generates for you PHP and SMARTY code that you can customize on your needs.
Implementation and modification to data model, wich is one of the most time consuming and frustrating part in the lifecycle of a project, becomes a very fast process because no code has to be written nor compiled, and the CMS CRUD is automatically generated and updated, at each modification to the data model.
Also queries used in frontend are created with a WYSIWYG interface. You can create as many queries you need on the fly, and associate each one to a template for query results visualization. There is also an interface to create and modify structure layout of each web page.
Software is multilingual, with as many languages you need, and adding/removing languages is an immediate task wich can be performed in any phase of the project development. There are also views to easily find missing translations for each multilingual element.
New WordPress 3 book
WordPress 3 Complete is a new book from Packt that explores WordPress as a fully functional content management system. Written by April Hodge Silver, this book is an in-depth coverage of installation, themes, plugins, and syndication with practical explanations of all aspects of WordPress.
WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. With its versatility, it is a powerful tool that's ideal for creating blogs and websites. Users can customize the features, incorporate their own designs, and even write their own plugins with ease.
WordPress 3 Complete starts with downloading and installing the core WordPress software. It also helps to upgrade WordPress from older installations, as well as personalize and control the content of a website. By customizing themes, users will learn to manage the look and feel of their website.
Build a dynamic social networking website using Packt's new PHP 5 book
Packt is pleased to announce PHP 5 Social Networking, a new book that will help readers to create a powerful and dynamic social networking website in PHP by building a flexible framework. Written by Michael Peacock, this book will allow readers to connect and communicate with each other using communication with friends list, flexible user profiles, messages, discussions, and much more.
Book Review: CMS Design Using PHP and jQuery
The Packt Publishing contacted me and asked if I am interested in writing a review about this book. I said yes and got a e-book straight away. I have read 50% of this book and checked codes. Today I’d like to write some reviews about what I read so far.
This is not a paid work and I will be honest.
The book starts from the most important part of CMS about user management.
Then it goes to core of CMS, pages and templates. Using jQuery and plug-ins for this CMS.
I think the appropriate audience of this book should have some experiences with PHP and jQuery. If you have your own CMS, then the book will give you different approaches and skills. If you don’t know php or jQuery, then you should read those books first.
Chapter 1
In chapter one, the book explains about the cms directory structure and how to name the directory and why, explaining about config file etc.
The author creates a simple database and add a httpd.conf file. He explains well and step by step. It is easy to read. However as I stated it before if you just started writing php or jquery, then I think you may need to google or study further things you don’t know. But if you have some expereince with web development or know a bit about Zend or Linux, then it shouldn’t be a problem. I learnt a couple of things already in this chapter.
He explains well about .htaccess and took some mysteries off about this file for me.
What surprised me first was that the book takes you straight to the core of coding without gibberish.
Typos which I found in code are followings.
Page 18 ‘password ‘=>’cmspass’,
should be ‘password’=>’cmspass’, without space after password. If you take out this space it works. And the supplied code for chapter one does not have this error.
Page.php methods are missing “public static function” and its constructor has unnecessary codes such as return false which constructor will never return.
And public $vars; (or var $var;) is missing at the top.
Book for enhancing your in-house PHP CMS with jQuery
Packt is pleased to announce CMS DEsign Using PHP and jquery, a new book that describes how to use PHP, MySQL, and jQuery to build an entire CMS from the ground up, complete with plugin architecture, user management, template-driven website design, and an installer. Written by Kae Verens, this book is a step-by-step explanatory tutorial to get your hands dirty in building your own CMS.
PHP is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages, whereas jquery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.
CMS Design Using PHP and jquery helps developers to leverage the power of PHP and jquery by building a core CMS, which can be used for most projects without needing to be changed. They can add custom plugins that can then be tailored to the individual project as well as create their own plugin architecture.
Through this book developers will learn how panels work, and use them to make flexible drag-and-drop layouts with widgets. They will also learn how to create an installer, using virtual machines for the test environment of their CMS. This step-by-step explanatory tutorial would help them enhance their administration forms using jQuery as well as manage users, using e-mail verification, hashes, and captchas.
TomatoCMS is 1st runner up of Most Promising Open Source Project
Through 2 rounds of The Most Promising Open Source Project Award 2010, TomatoCMS was choosen which was 1st runner up of Most Promising Open Source Project.
See the result at http://www.packtpub.com/blog/the-2010-op....
Let's try to know why TomatoCMS was choosen.
TomatoCMS is chosen to voting round of Open Source Award
Now, TomatoCMS is chosen to final, voting round of Open Source Award. 
All finalist products for Most Promising Open Source Project are:
- BuddyPress
- LiveStreet CMS
- Pimcore
- TomatoCMS
- WolfCMS
How to vote for TomatoCMS
The voting round starts on 27th, September and close on 5th, November. It's easy to vote for TomatoCMS. Just go to https://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home/v... and:
- Select TomatoCMS in the Choose the project you would like to win section.
- Leave your name in the Your name field,
- and leave your email address in the Your email field (Please use the real email address)
- Finally, don't forget to press the Submit button.
Please help TomatoCMS win this award! The voting will close on 5th, November. And then top 3 of most voted projects will be considered by the judges to decide which one wins the award.
Love TomatoCMS, Vote TomatoCMS
WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter for September 2010 Released
XOOPS (www.xoops.org) just released the September issue of its WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter.
Highlights of last month:
- Work continuous on XOOPS 2.5.0 Alpha 2 (see latest development on SVN)
- XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to to Ricardo Costa (Trabis) from Portugal, for his innovative Mymenus 1.1 module! This is his 2nd Innovation Award! .
- XOOPSer of the Month Award: is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Benoît Puissant (Solo71) from Belgium for the support on XOOPS France and his many modules. Solo71 is a XOOPS member since 2002
Book for creating a working architecture for a PHP 5 based framework
PHP 5 CMS Framework Development - 2nd Edition is a new book from Packt that teaches readers about the design choices involved in the creation of advanced web oriented PHP systems. Written by Martin Brampton , this book will help readers to implement solid mechanisms for common features such as menus, presentation services, and user management, and to build a highly functional infrastructure for web applications.
PHP is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development, allowing the production of dynamic web pages. This free software, which can be easily embedded into HTML, generally runs on a web server that needs to be configured to process PHP code and create content from it. PHP has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can also be used in standalone graphical applications.
PHP 5 CMS Framework Development - 2nd Edition starts off by discussing fundamental issues such as the automatic loading of code modules and interfaces to database systems, and goes on to explain deeper topics such as session handling, caches, and access control. Furthermore, the book also talks about the key issues that affect a wide range of specific content handlers by exploring a practical example in detail.
Using this book, developers will learn effective coding techniques through detailed explanations, along with technical functions such as handling user sessions and creating caches. Additionally, developers will learn flexible and efficient ways to support different world languages, to transform query string URLs to be more “friendly” for people and search engines, and alternative ways to deal with presentation services.
Written by a seasoned developer, this practical hands-on guide is ideal for professional PHP developers who want to learn more about web oriented frameworks and content management systems. The book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/php-5-cms-framework-development-second-edition/book
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