Five good programming habits in PHP
Just like any language, developers can write code in PHP that ranges in quality from truly awful to very good. In this article, learn good programming... more »
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Method overloading in PHP 5
Method overloading (a feature of object-oriented programing which allows having several class methods with the same name but different signatures) is... more »
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Zend_Paginator: First Impressions
I have been working on a fun project recently which is built on Zend Framework. While looking at options for paginating a large result set, I came... more »
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Codeigniter: Helpers, Plugins and Libraries
Codeigniter have Helpers, Plugins and Libraries. All three 'hooks' can be used to achieve the same results. The question then is, when do you use... more »
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Use Responsibly
You're likely using somebody else's code so that you can Get Things Done. But what happens when you hit a snag? Say, for instance, the code isn't... more »
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Send Email Notifications for Broken Images Using jQuery Ajax
David Walsh posted a priceless and overly useful post about Send Email Notifications for Broken Images Using MooTools Ajax but the only problem with... more »
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Towards RESTful PHP - 5 Basic Tips
REST is an architectural style, or set of conventions, for web applications and services that centers itself around resource manipulation and the HTTP... more »
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Symfony 1.2 is Available Now
Today is the day a great portion of the community has been waiting for, even without knowing that it will be today. As our early Christmas present, we... more »
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NetBeans 6.5 vs Eclipse
NetBeans is like lightweight Eclipse, with a couple of very powerful additional features (all out of the box), and it Just Works.
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PHP Is Smarter Than You Think. Don’t Pass Function Arguments By Reference.
Passing arguments by reference won't improve performance. Plus, it makes code harder to understand. Please don't do it!
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You Need the PHP Community
Let me paint a picture for you—there's a young developer, sitting in his parents' basement, hacking away at his latest masterpiece. He has built it... more »
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PHP: It turns out, I was wrong
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In the past, I have not been shy about sharing my opinion that the impending death of PHP 4 would have wreaked all sorts of havoc over the PHP world.... more »
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How to Write Valid URL Query String Parameters
When building web pages, it is often necessary to add links that require parameterized query strings. For example, when adding links to the various... more »
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NetBeans 6.5 review
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During the weekend, I tried out NetBeans 6.5 and its new PHP related functionality. I had earlier seen some quick shots of how the support was, and it... more »
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Send Email Notifications for Broken Images Using MooTools 1.2
One of the little known javascript events is the image “onError” event. This event is triggered when an image 404’s out because it doesn’t exist.... more »
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How to create a social networking website in 5 minutes
Social media is the way to go now-a-days. After Orkut, Facebook and My Space we saw hundreds of social networking site making their mark in the... more »
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Ask difficult questions to PHP specialists
The PHPClasses site provides dedicated forums that now allow any PHP developer to post questions about difficult problems that he is having. These... more »
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My Interview with Yahoo-Inc! (Part 1)
Last month I was interviewed by Yahoo-Inc! for a job as software engineer. Here I would like to point out the discussions and various question/answer... more »
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Simple MVC PHP Framework
This article details the specifics of a simple PHP based web application framework. There are many different architectural patterns that one can use... more »
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OsCommerce: A Lesson in Unmaintainable Code?
I’ll let you in on a dirty secret: my first paid programming task was to make custom modifications to an oscommerce shopping cart. I cut my teeth on... more »
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Freezing and Thawing PHP Objects
One of the many new features that have been added for PHP 5.3 is the setAccessible() method of the ReflectionProperty class that is part of PHP's... more »
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10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks
We all have them - little coding tricks and snippets of knowledge that we’ve picked up over years of experimentation and evolution of our processes,... more »
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The return value of include
PHP never stops surprising me. I just found out that you’re able to return values from the inclusion statements (require, require_once, include and... more »
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ZendFramework (performance) II
Just a brief follow-up to my earlier article. A disclaimer which I should have added to my last article would include that most of my pseudo... more »
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Is NetBeans disrupting the PHP IDE market?
Then Netbeans released 6.5 with PHP support. Right out of the gate, their PHP and JavaScript support is on the whole, so much better and faster than... more »
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