Links for 2009-08-05

CatsWhoCode lists 15 regexps for PHP developers:

1. Validate domain name
2. Enlight a word from a text
3. Enlight search results in your WordPress blog
4. Get all images from a HTML document
5. Remove repeated words (case insensitive)
6. Remove repeated punctuation
7. Matching a XML/HTML tag
8. Matching an XHTML/XML tag with a certain attribute value
9. Matching hexadecimal color values
10. Find page title
11. Parsing Apache logs
12. Replacing double quotes by smart qutotes
13. Checking password complexity
14. WordPress: Using regexp to retrieve images from post
15. Generating automatic smileys

On 4.September there is a Symfony Day in Cologne, Germany. This one day conference about the PHP framework will be helt in English.

Joel Reyes from NoUpe wrote about PHP frameworks. After in introduction he compares

• Zend Framework
• CakePHP
• Symfony
• Codelgniter
• Seagull

Stefan Priebsch publishes his slides from his webinar “Migration to PHP 5.3″.

Microsoft publishes an eBook about virtualization for free. The title “Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions”.