Monday, March 15. 2004

There are a ton of things going on, so I thought I'd drop a quick note on here to let you all know:

• The Photo Gallery is back online! To get it to work, I had to do some Proxy magic to make PHP 4 and PHP 5 run on the same server. I also have photos from php|cruise now online.
  
• I am working on re-designing coggeshall.org. We'll have a new look, a new logo, and hopefully a lot sexier design soon! The site will be expanded beyond just a blog to include some more useful stuff for the PHP Community in general.
  
• A week or so ago I committed my latest experimental philter extension for PHP into the repository. Basically, this extension allows you to write "philter" modules which pre-process a PHP script before it is executed by the Zend Engine. This all happens transparently, which is why its cool. For now all I have in CVS is a base64 philter, which encodes your PHP scripts in base64 and decodes them transparently when the file is executed. However, I also have a working blowfish encryption philter as well, which will allow you to truly encrypt your PHP scripts to keep them from prying eyes. Before I commit that however, I need to work out key management so stay tuned! If you'd like to use philter you'll have to check it out from CVS:
  
  
  cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository co pecl/philter
  

I'm sure I'll be hitting on these things more in the future so don't go far.