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JetBrains just released the newest EAP build, one in a long line of builds they’ve been releasing for us developers in their Early Access Program. I truly believe it’s awesome how JetBrains listens to their users and work hard to release this cutting edge editor.

What’s inside

phpStorm 2.0 has a lot of hot features. Most of them are already working in the newest EAP builds.

Features already in:

• Zend debugger support
• Refactoring features
• New code inspections
• Structure view sorting and filtering
• New full-fledged code editor for SQL console, editable results grid, blob support
• LESS support
• New DVCS UI (Git, etc) with easy multiple repository branch switching, built-in log views and integrated cherrypicking, etc
• Softwrap in code editor
• Mercurial support
• RelaxNG support

Implementation in process:

• “Any framework” support mechanism
• Zend framework support (zendtool, generators)
• full fledged PHP namespace support
• SASS 3 support, compilation support
• Streamlined UI: more compact layout, better indication, better blending into OS style

Check out the phpStorm blog: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/webide/
Newest EAP build can be downloaded here: http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/WI/Web+IDE+EAP
Development Roadmap: http://confluence.jetbrains.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=15801728
Community forum: http://devnet.jetbrains.net/community/wi/
Issue tracker: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issues/WI

Bonus!

Like the dark twilight theme? I’ve ported it to phpStorm, you can download it here.

So, the hot news are that Kohana 3.1, due by the end of the year, will be the last release for PHP 5.2.x. The next release, Kohana 3.2 will be support only PHP 5.3+. This is great news for people that already enjoying the benefits of PHP 5.3 which are major: Namespaces, lambda (anonymous) functions, and more…

One of the hot new features in Kohana 3.1 is Lambda routes. For example:

<?php
Route::set('testing', function($uri)
	{
		if ($uri == 'foo/bar')
			return array(
				'controller' => 'welcome',
				'action'     => 'foobar',
			);
	}
);

Route::set('testing', function($uri)
	{
		if ($uri == '</language regex/>(.+)')
		{
			Cookie::set('language', $match[1]);
			return array(
				'controller' => 'welcome',
				'action'     => 'foobar'
			);
		}
	}
);

https://gist.github.com/7b2db1abbf22b4cd74b2

Current Kohana 3.1 release notes: (may change)

• Scratchpad, eventual general overview for 3.1 changes.
• Rewritten request class
• Added response classLambda routes
• Added http_* classes, for responses (like 404s)

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You’re in the right place. Continue reading!
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Here are a couple of open-source PHP calendar projects worth to metion:
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You can find ADOdb here: http://adodb.sourceforge.net/

Here are some examples of your daily database connect and retrieval:
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