Miami, FL, June 23, 2008: Jcx.Software today announces the release of VS.Php 2.5 for Visual Studio 2008, a Php integrated development environment (IDE) for Microsoft Visual Studio. Like previous versions of VS.Php, it comes in three different editions:

• VS.Php 2.5 for Visual Studio 2008
• VS.Php 2.5 for Visual Studio 2005
• VS.Php 2.5 Standalone Edition, designed for customers that do not own Visual Studio.

VS.Php 2.5 includes the Zend Framework and integrates it seamlessly to the Visual Studio IDE. The Zend Framework integration includes the following features:

• Zend Framework integration to the Php preview built-in engine.
• Intellisense support for Zend Framework classes, including support for class auto loaders.
• Zend Framework Model-View-Controller project wizard.

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PHP|architect have just released php|architect's Guide to PHP 5 Migration, a book written by Stefan Priebsch. The guide in 250 pages aims to help developers migrate successfuly from PHP4 to PHP5. php|architect's Guide to PHP 5 Migration is available since 6 June in PDF format and will be available in 20 June in print format.

The topics covered include:

• Migration Concepts
• Strategies for Migration
• Migration Aspects
• Preparing the Migration
• The Migration
• After the Migration
• Tools
• Migrating PHP Code

This is the only book you will need to help you through the rough spots when migrating your PHP apps from PHP4 to PHP5. Not only is this an extremely comprehensive and in-depth resource, it will show you virtually every pitfall you may encounter and will undoubtedly make your migration as smooth as possible.

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PHPDevShell is a stable, secure, fast PHP Web administration framework. It allows rapid deployment of Web based PHP applications. Robust, secure, clean, fast, including many administrative functions, the framework supports an unlimited number of users, user groups, security levels, menu tree levels, and menus.

Latest update include major feature and stability enhancements in the core, database layer, GUI, security, template engine, caching, gzipping, and navigation system, with all reported bugs fixed. PHPDevShell is available under the GNU (LGPL) Open Source License.

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If we talk about PHP5 test and deployment, a solution come in mind Xinc, the continuous integration server in PHP5. The solution provides a built-in support to Subversion and Phing, and could be easily extended to work with alternative version control or build tools.

The interest of Xinc is especially for projects with many developers working in the same time, everyone can commit changes to an SVN server, where Xinc listen to changes and triggers different build script if a change is detected. After building the project, Xinc reacts on the result of the build. Depending on whether the build was successful or failed it triggers special publishing scripts, which can deploy software, send notification emails or create deliverables.

Xinc runs as a daemon process in the background processing multiple projects. The projects itself are defined in xml and make use of tasks (defined in Plugins) to run the build process.

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WebMesh framework version 0.11.2 have just been released, based strongly in PHP5 and proposes a standard structure for PHP projects with intention of:

- Force a better organization of the your project classes.
- Encorage the usage of the PHP version 5.
- Increase the code reuse level
- Becomes it a collaborative framework, in other words, which all contribute with new classes, abstrations, libraries, modules or frameworks to be integrated it.

WebMesh is similar to the Geronimo project idea and more friendly to the Java adopts. This project also includes two example projects to show the framework functionalities:

- A simple system with login/logout (webmesh-example_0.11.2).
- A newsletter sender (newsletter_1.1).

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Packt is pleased to announce the release of a new book titled Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5. Written by Hasin Hayder, this book will teach users to understand the core object-oriented programming concepts with PHP and to write manageable applications with ease.

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses "objects" and their interactions to design applications and computer programs. It was basically introduced to ease the development process as well as reduce the time of development by reducing the amount of code needed.

PHP is one of the most popular languages for web application development, and PHP5 supports OOP very well. This book will help users to master core OOP features in PHP as well as advanced Topics like Design Patterns including Model-View-Controller (MVC), and Unit Testing.

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