- Zend Framework was updated to 1.10.1
- P4A_Data_Source::exportToCSV() method was marked as deprecated
- P4A_Data_Source::exportAsCSV() now can be called directly from an event handler
- translations were updated

Download P4A 3.4.4

* GUI:
* ISO mime type check was removed because new Ubuntu ISOs
have “x-iso9660″ mime type
* a bug with cd language selection was solved
(thanks to Wolf Geldmacher)

* Backend:
* .lz initrd support was added (thanks to Wolf Geldmacher)
* new isolinux configuration format is now supported
(thanks to Wolf Geldmacher)
* if a local copy of gfxboot-theme-ubuntu is found inside ~/tmp
it won’t be downloaded from bzr, allowing better customizations
(thanks to Wolf Geldmacher)
* gfxboot-theme-ubuntu source download routine was completely rewritten
using wget instead of bzr

But the most important thing is that Wolf Geldmacher, the guy who provided most of the patches for this release, is joining UCK development team, this is an awesome news!

So now hurry up and download UCK 2.0.11 while it’s hot!

- Zend Framework was updated to 1.9.5
- jQuery::form was updated to 2.36
- tooltip javascript was enhanced to make it location aware (bug #1908495)
- setTooltip() methods were moved to P4A_Widget
- tooltip support was added to P4A_Tab_Pane
- PEAR::Net_Useragent_Detect was updated to 2.5.1
- tooltips hiding methods now have a timeout to allow clicking links inside the
tooltip itself
- new_window parameter was added to P4A_Redirect_To_File() and P4A_Redirect_To_Url()
global functions
- P4A_DB_Source::_composePkString() was fixed handling multiple primary keys
(bug #2833159)
- onautocomplete event was added, it can be used to create a custom search for
fields instead of using P4A’s default one
- P4A_DB_Source::setTable() now supports a second parameter “alias”
- P4A_DB_Source::setTableAlias() and getTableAlias() methods were added
- P4A_DB_Source::addJoin*() methods now support alias on table (see code reference)
- P4A_Table elements/page user selector was added (disabled by default)
- P4A_Table::showElementsOnPageBar() and P4A_Table::hideElementsOnPageBar() were added

Download P4A 3.4.3

- a bug with backslashes stripping was solved (bug #2853694)
- a typo was fixed in P4A_DB (profiler activation)
- P4A_Tab_Pane now correctly handles disabled pages
- a bug with P4A_Table’s ordering with P4A_DB_Source having a group clause was solved
- Zend Framework was updated to 1.9.4
- P4A_Thumbnail_Generator won’t generate a thumb bigger than the original image
- P4A_Data_Source::exportAsCSV() was reworked allowing field ordering and field descriptions

Download P4A 3.4.2

• Ubuntu/Kubuntu Italian Remix
• Ubuntu Mini Remix

Also Ubuntu Customization Kit was updated to be fully compatibly with the new Ubuntu 9.10.

Be sure to check everything out :-)

1) prerequisites

First of all we’ll install the php5-dev package which contains some utilities we’ll need for the build process:

sudo apt-get install php5-dev

then you’ve to find out your ORACLE_HOME environment variable, try executing:

env | grep ORACLE_HOME=

If this command outputs something like:

ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server

then you can jump to section “2) Getting and compiling PDO_OCI” otherwise go on thru this section.

If this guide we’ll just see how to find out which is your ORACLE_HOME directory if you’ve installed the oracle-xe server package. If you’ve installed instantclient or anything else please refer to the product documentation. So you’ve an installed and configured oracle-xe instance on your machine, now type:

cat /etc/init.d/oracle-xe |grep ORACLE_HOME=

the command should print something like:

ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server

now we’ve to export this variable to the current terminal session, we’ll do that with this command:

export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server

and the environment variable will be configured.

2) Getting and compiling PDO_OCI

Just cut and paste these simple commands to download PDO_OCI from the web and prepare it for the build phase:

cd /tmp
pecl download pdo_oci
tar xvfz PDO_OCI-1.0.tgz
cd PDO_OCI-1.0
phpize
mkdir include
ln -s /usr/include/php5/ include/php
./configure

now everything should be setup and we can build the driver and install it with:

make && make install

If everything is fine you can continue

3) Configuring PHP and Apache

if everything is fine you can go on editing your php.ini file and adding this line:

extension=pdo_oci.so

now create a phpinfo.php file under your apache’s document root, containing this line:

<?php phpinfo();

point your browser to:

http://localhost/phpinfo.php

and search for the “environment” section, it should look like the one in the next screenshot:

if you see the ORACLE_HOME line everything it’s ok, jump to the “4) Closure” section otherwise edit /etc/apache2/envvars file and add the ORACLE_HOME configuration, it will be something like this (on a single line):

export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server

4) Closure

Restart your apache and you’re done:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Full changelog:

- strong/em are now supported by P4A tooltips
- DSN charset support was added to set DB connection charset
- Zend Framework was updated to 1.9.2
- jquery::maskedInput plugin was updated to 1.2.2
- P4A_Object::__call() method was changed from private to public for PHP 5.3 compliance
- P4A_Tab_Pane’s CSS padding was changed a bit to fix a rendering bug on firefox/chrome
- P4A_DB_PROFILE constant was added, it will output every query executed on every DB

Download P4A 3.4.1

If you’ve a moment, vote for P4A:
http://trends.phpmagazine.net/frameworks/

P4A 3.4 is not an extremely giant leap, our base engines were updated (Zend Framework, jQuery, jQuery UI), we have a few new widgets (P4A_Progress_Bar and P4A_Dir_Navigator) and we got a lot a bugs fixed continuing to gain stability.

On the enterprise side we have a better Oracle support (most of all using LOBs).

On the rendering side we migrated a lot of code to jQuery UI and jQuery CSS framework, so we can relay on a stable cross browser CSS/widget framework and avoid a lot of troubles with the browser rendering.

Updating is suggested to everyone!
Enjoy our new beloved web application framework release!

Download P4A 3.4.0
Official P4A website

Complete changelog:

- Zend Framework was updated to 1.8.4
- jQuery was updated to 1.3.2
- jQuery UI was updated to 1.7.2
- P4A_Tab_Pane was converted to jQuery UI
- P4A_Fieldset and P4A_Tab_Pane now have rounder borders
- a note about handling dates with Oracle was added to the README file
- outline CSS property was removed
- If magic_quotes_gpc are enebled P4A strips out all slashes from $_POST,
$_GET, $_COOKIE and $_REQUEST
- P4A_Dir_Navigator widget was added
- P4A_Widget::composeStringActions() method now uses
P4A_Quote_Javascript_String()
- a bug with P4A_Dir_Source and hidden files was solved
- P4A_Dir_Source::getNumRows() method was added
- P4A_I18N::format() support for “filesize” data type was added
- P4A_Dir_Source now supports file size and last modification time
- P4A_Dir_Source’s cache was removed due to refactoring
- P4A_Simple_Edit_Mask now supports empty $source constructor param
(default is the mask name)
- P4A_Progress_Bar widget was added
- P4A footer was moved to allow better centering when sidebars are visible
- when uploading a file, it will have a temporary file until the corresponding
record won’t be saved
- a bug with P4A_Strip_Double_Backslashes global function was fixed
(thanks to bobkoure)
- a bug with Zend_Framework and Oracle was fixed (stripped zend_db_rownum column)
- P4A_DB_Navigator now can work also without recursor (flat list is shown)
- P4A_Mask::displayText() method was marked as deprecated, you can now use
P4A_Mask::display() that now has no hardcoded object reference
- P4A_Data_Source::isFirstRow() and isLastRow() methods were added
- a bug with P4A_Message and IE7 was solved
- Oracle’s LOBs are now supported
- P4A_Object’s ID generation algorithm was changed (thanks to pbond81 and Mario Spada)
- P4A_Table thumbnail generation speed was improved (bug #2220506) (thanks to pbond81)
- P4A_Box’s ul/ol is now rendered (bug #2634061) (thanks to bes_sf)
- a note about aliases on P4A_DB_Source’s PK was added to the README file
- P4A_DB_Source now automatically detects Oracle’s NUMBER data type
- P4A_Tab_Pane’s height honoring bug was fixed (bug #2815814)
- P4A_Widget::composeStringActions() now handles parameters with backslashes inside
- a bug with P4A_I18N::format() of boolean data was fixed
- a bug with multicheckbox’s CSS on some browsers was fixed
- a bug with P4A_DB_Source::saveRow and multiple primary keys was solved

• Ubuntu Desktop Course 8.04 – for students
• Ubuntu Desktop Course 8.04 – for instructors

I can imagine what you’re thinking… Ubuntu 9.04 is already out, why this course is about 8.04? I actuallly don’t have an answer but having a course for a LTS is really important and anyway training structures cannot handle the effort of updating all the materials and instructors every 6 months, just my 2 cents.

Enjoy :-)