Dhani's Blog: Creating Guest Book with PHP
From Dhani's blog today, there's this new tutorial (part 1) showing you how to create a guest book for your site with PHP's help. Proper development on any kind of project requires you to stop and...
View ArticleFelix Geisendorfer's Blog: False == 0, or not?
Felix Geisendorfer has come across something interesting in his coding - an issue where false might not be false in the right situation. So far I've always thought false would evaluate to 0 when used...
View ArticlePadraic Brady's Blog: Any Behaviour-Driven Development Tools for PHP?
In a new post today, Padraic Brady asks the community for any kind of input as to what they've seen for behaviour-driven development in PHP: Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is an evolution of...
View ArticleRob Thompson's Blog: Switch vs. If
Rob Thompson has posted about some simple benchmarking he did comparing the speed of a series of "if" statements versus one "switch" with multiple cases. I got curious about which is actually more...
View ArticlePHPBuilder.com: The Ternary Conditional Operator
The PHPBuilder.com site has a quick reminder about a handy little bit of functionality PHP has to make evaluations quicker - the ternary operator. This allows you to check for the existence of a...
View ArticleMutant PHP Blog: Specifications for PHP5
In a recent entry to his blog Sean shows off a new specifications library he's created to replace common comparison functionality with a series of specs. I thought I'd share a PHP library implementing...
View ArticleKevin Schroeder's Blog: How to (properly) evaluate Zend Server - Introduction
Kevin Schroeder has a new post to his blog today on how to correctly evaluate the Zend Server product from Zend (disclaimer: he is a Zend employee). As you all probably know, Zend has salespeople....
View ArticleIan Barber's Blog: Benford's Law
In a recent post to his blog Ian Barber looks at applying Benford's Law in PHP to determine if the dataset you're working with is "real" or not. Benfords Law is not an exciting new John Nettles based...
View ArticleEvert Pot's Blog: Numeric string comparison in PHP
In this new post to his blog Evert Pot reminds you (the PHP developer) about the loose and strict typing checks that you need to do when checking the values of your variables and never just assume....
View ArticleJani Hartikainen: Parsing and evaluating PHP in Haskell: Part 2
Jani Hartikainen has posted the second article in his series looking at parsing PHP with Haskell (part one is here). In this new article he builds on the parser he built last time and gets to the...
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