Post tagged “PHP”
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Defining INI Entries for PHP Scripts
Mostly useful to passing PHP INI settings to wrapper scripts like phpcs and phpunit.
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Rasmus on Interpolation vs. Concatenation
Rasmus Lerdorf has been tweeting this morning about concatenation vs. interpolation in PHP. Micro-optimizations to be sure, but an interesting look under the hood.
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State of PHP 2012
Rasmus presented the State of PHP 2012 at Etsy. Here are some pretty raw notes, with approximate times.
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PHP 5.4 Changes
From the PHP 5.4.0 RC1 "NEWS" file. Traits, array dereferencing, CLI built-in web server, and more.
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Filesystem Caching without Cruft in PHP
Cleanup your file caches while you're still using them.
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Python and PHP: Giving a Rat's Ass
Should you give a rat's ass about being competitive with PHP?
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PHP, symlinks, and the realpath cache
I've had issues in the past where symlinked web directories don't point to the correct file after the symlink target is changed.
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Migrating to PHP 5.3: call_user_func_array()
I've been updating various old pieces of code after our PHP 5.3 upgrade yesterday afternoon. Today, call_user_func_array() has been a recurring theme.
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On Frameworks
Everyone wants what they don't have.
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Testable Factories
So I wrote a post about testable classes in PHP, and before I even hit "Publish" I read something on StackOverflow that challenged some of my opinions. I wrote that I didn't need testable factories, but what if I did?
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Thinking About Testability
I've been thinking a lot about unit tests, lately. In the Bad Old Days I could var_dump() my way through a problem and deal with the consequences, but that isn't good enough any more. Today, I want my tests to run themselves, and that's forcing me change the way I structure my code.
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PHP 5.3.0 Changes
PHP 5.3.0 looks promising.
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Local Documentation: PHP, Django, jQuery
Here's how I created local mirrors of the online documentation for several projects under Mac OS X 10.5.6.
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Variable Variables and Arrays
Memorize the order of operations, I guess.
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Smarter Parsing with Smarty
Don't gobble my markup.
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ADOdb, MySQL, and Transactions
Transactions should be supported by everything.