Miami, FL, January 25, 2009: Jcx.Software announced today the release of VS.Php 2.6 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. VS.Php is the PHP integrated development environment (IDE) for Visual Studio developers. This version includes a number of features for the enterprise developer including:

• Seamless integration with Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7), which allows developers to host their PHP project on their local IIS server. VS.Php configures PHP, Fast CGI and XDebug automatically. It also provides unique configuration for each Php project hosted in IIS, allowing developers to utilize custom settings in the php.ini for each project.
• Support for very large projects with over 10000+ files. VS.Php is now optimized to load large projects quickly.
• Project-wide IntelliSense, providing the developer with quick access to all classes, functions, methods and constants defined in the project. VS.Php provides two tabs in the IntelliSense pop-up, one for frequently used entries and another for project wide entries.
• The ability to drag and drop files within the solution view, which allows the user to quickly copy or move files within the project. Also, the user can drag files to the references node for quick access in IntelliSense for the symbols defined in the file.
• The latest version of Zend Framework, Php 5 and XDebug.

Jcx.Software continues their commitment to provide the best PHP development experience for enterprise developers. “With added support for handling very large projects and project-wide IntelliSense, VS.Php is a powerful tool for enterprise developers. We are pleased to leverage Visual Studio’s ability to handle very large projects in the latest version of VS.Php.” said Juan Rivera, Jcx.Software Founder.

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Flourish is an object-oriented PHP 5 library designed to reduce code and improve security. It’s not an MVC framework and it doesn’t try to solve every problem. Instead, it focuses on being small, portable, well documented and easy to use.

Flourish provides classes to simplify many common and repetitive tasks in PHP with class APIs that are simple and intuitive. It helps produce code that is easy to write, and more importantly, easy to read and maintain.

The project is very well documented, and to get started you need PHP 5.1+, it include an ORM for supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server, in addition for being built with internationalization and localization in mind. Flourish is available under the MIT license.

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Today PHP Magazine Network is the number one in Google results for the keyword “php magazine” ! I wasn’t surprised when I saw it, but was a little disappointed…

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Spoon is a PHP5 library that stands for speed, both in page execution and coding agility. Because of it’s clear and logical structure, it offers a very small learning curve for both the experienced and not-so-experienced developer. Spoon provides a well documented library with a large collection of classes that you can use while building the next Web 2.0 application.

Spoon is not a framework, you can choose the components you would like to use in your project. The library provides a set of classes for cookie, database, date, email, filesystem, filter, html, session, and template. Spoon is written by Davy Hellemans, Tijs Verkoyen, and Dave Lens; released under an open source BSD license.

More info could be found at : http://spoon-library.be/

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Sigmasoft Technologies Inc. has recently announced 2.0 release of Sigma Visual, an entire WYSIWYG Ajax GUI Builder. Sigma Visual is web based tool for AJAX RIA application GUI rapid design and involved scripts programming. With this powerful builder, developers can build your web application just like what they do in Visual Basic or Delphi.

Sigma Visual contains more than 40 common components, including tabs, dialog, tree grid, time Line and so on. Written in pure Javascript, the outcome applications have wide cross-browser compatibility, including IE6+, Firefox1.5+, Opera9+, Safari3+ and Google Chrome.

Sigma Visual could be used under dual licenses. Commercial License and LGPL license both available.

Try it now at http://www.sigmawidgets.com/products/sigma_visual/VisualJS/ or download it at http://www.sigmawidgets.com/download.html.

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