Most PHP developers (and other web developpers too) seem to evolve on a similar path which goes like this: Step 1: take HTML pages an add PHP tags into them. Step 2: Realize that on a large scale this is getting very hard to maintain. Step 3: Learn…...
I have just extended my PHP coding standard guidelines with these rules about variable naming: Remember this is PHP, not Microsoft Visual C++. There is actually little value in naming variables something like strFullTitle . Something like full_title is…...
We had this quite interesting situation at work today: I export an UTF-8 MySQL database into an UTF_8 SQL file. I *binary* FTP the file over to him. He plays the SQL in PHPmyAdmin all configured for UTF-8. He then checks the data in PHPmyAdmin: special…...
Running an app under PHP 4.3.8 and trying to connect to a MySQL 4.1 database can be pretty frustrating. By default it gives you a message like this: "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client".…...
PHP has some nice features to do output buffering. You just call . This is supposed to let you do "kewl" post-processing operations like: gzip compression, adding an ETag, adding content-length of your whole output. Crap! There are only two situations…...
I really like Eclipse as a Java IDE, I do! :D However I'm getting really tired of having a different IDE for each language I am working with, no matter how cool those IDEs might be. Different display conventions, different keyboard shortcuts, different…...
As I have said before, gettext is a very interesting framework for i18n and i10n. Now the question is, how do I apply this to web applications? Actually, I'm going to restrict my discussion here to PHP since this is what I'm working with right now...…...
MagpieRSS provides an XML-based (expat) RSS parser in PHP. MagpieRSS is compatible with RSS .9 through RSS 1.0, and supports the RSS 1.0's modules (with a few exceptions).
So I've been developing on b2evolution for a couple of months now and people seem to be quite happy with it ;) (read the testimonials! ;) ) Nevertheless I still feel like I'd really need to learn PHP for real someday! :. I mean, it's easy to learn the…...
Blogs, as most current web applications, need to address the server-side caching issue in order to reduce webserver load. It looks like most people are quite happy with caching static versions of their pages for some defined amount of time. This method…...