Zend Core First Impression
So Zend Core recently released an update which has the PDO extension so I can now use it since all my applications run off of PDO for data access. Problem is I’m trying this on Mac OS X which currently has a problem with building PDO separately for PHP. So I had to wait for Zend Core to integrate the core PDO extension to even use it.
Zend Core offers a simple installation and management suite for a PHP installation. It installs PHP and it’s components along with some optional components (like phpMyAdmin and the likes and even Apache 2) and gives you a web interface for managing your php configuration, seeing general status of Apache, benchmark (ap), and grab updates automatically or manually for Zend Core. It’s also free to use it seems, you pay if you want support.
My favorite part of this is probably the offline searchable PHP manual it also includes and the easy to use php.ini editor that lets you edit settings & load extensions easily. Check out some screenshots.
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