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Current situation about official repositories providing PHP Software Collections for  RHEL and CentOS users.

Here is a small comparison of the various solutions to use a Redis database from PHP on Linux

All the tests have be run on Fedora 25 but should work on RHEL, CentOS or any other distribution.

Tested solutions:

• redis extension (see #1)
• Predis library (see #2)
• phpiredis extension (see #3)
• Predis library with phpiredis extension (see #4)

Here is a small comparison of the various solutions to use a Microsoft SQL Server database from PHP, on Linux.

All the tests have be run on Fedora 23 but should work on RHEL or CentOS version 7.

Tested extensions:

• pdo_odbc (see #1, #3)
• mssql (see #2)
• sqlsrv (see #4)
• pdo_sqlsrv (see #5)
• pdo_dblib (see #6)

FESCO have approved, for Fedora 25 the upgrade from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.0.

Version 7.1.0 Alpha 1 is released. It's now enter the stabilisation phase for the developpers, and the test phase for the users.

RPM of this upcoming version of PHP 7.1, are available in remi repository for Fedora 22, 23, 24 and Enterprise Linux 6, 7 (RHEL, CentOS, ...) in a fresh new Software Collection (php71) allowing its installation beside the system version.

Here is some download statistics from remi repository, for the various PHP versions available.

Back from Forum PHP Paris 2015.

First, a huge thanks to AFUP for the organization of this great event, as always, reception was beyond reproach.

This event was, once more, a great opportunity for many and rewarding meetings with lot of  PHP developers and users.

This year was exceptional, because PHP is 20 years old, AFUP is 15 years old and of course because of upcoming  PHP version 7:

On the photo : (top) Derick Rethans, Anatol Belski, me, Zeev Suraski, (bottom) Pierre Joye, Rasmus Lerdorf, Bob Weinand and Nikita Popov.

More photos on Flickr.

I had the change to give a talk about collaboration between upstream (projects) and downstream (distribution) with an important part about QA management by the Fedora project.

Read the slides: Paris2015.pdf.

Feedback seems good, see joind.id.

I waiting for next meetings.

I just discover the libsmbclient-php project, here some information.

I can't count the number of time I had to explain why using this library or this PHP extension is a terrible mistake. So time to blog about  it.