By Chris Cornutt

Lorna Jane has posted a brief look back at this year's PHP London conference and the PHPWomen group's involvement there.

Leap Year Day, 29th February 2008, saw the annual London PHP Conference. PHPWomen were lucky enough to be able to get a stand at this conference to promote our organisation, and it was a great opportunity to get together and meet all the women that were able to be there.

By Quentin Zervaas

The PHP 5 Iterator interface is very useful for defining custom behaviour for looping over objects, however I just noticed that looping over such objects in Smarty will not work correctly.

Smarty will in fact cast an object back to an array, so when you loop over it, the template will loop over the object's properties (as opposed to using the rules defined by the Iterator methods).

By Joshua Eichorn

I found an interesting project, quercus that compiles PHP to Java Bytecode allowing it to run ontop of the Java Resin Application Server. It has a couple neat features, one being PHP6 compatible unicode support, the other being easy integration between Java and PHP code.

It also seems to perform well, implements a large part of the PHP api, and lets you implement anything your missing just be writing a new Java Class.

It will be interesting to see if a project like this can actually take off.

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