Post tagged “PHP”

1. Defining INI Entries for PHP Scripts

   Mostly useful to passing PHP INI settings to wrapper scripts like phpcs and phpunit.

   • #Programming
   • #PHP
   • #PHPUnit
   • #PHP_CodeSniffer
   • #scripting

2. 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.

   • #Programming
   • #PHP

3. State of PHP 2012

   Rasmus presented the State of PHP 2012 at Etsy. Here are some pretty raw notes, with approximate times.

   • #PHP

4. PHP 5.4 Changes

   From the PHP 5.4.0 RC1 "NEWS" file. Traits, array dereferencing, CLI built-in web server, and more.

   • #Programming
   • #PHP

5. Filesystem Caching without Cruft in PHP

   Cleanup your file caches while you're still using them.

   • #Programming
   • #caching
   • #performance
   • #PHP

6. Python and PHP: Giving a Rat's Ass

   Should you give a rat's ass about being competitive with PHP?

   • #Programming
   • #PHP
   • #python

7. 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.

   • #Programming
   • #performance
   • #PHP

8. 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.

   • #Programming
   • #PHP
   • #php 5.3

9. On Frameworks

   Everyone wants what they don't have.

   • #Programming
   • #design
   • #object oriented programming
   • #PHP

10. 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?

    • #Programming
    • #PHP
    • #unit testing

11. 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.

    • #Programming
    • #PHP
    • #unit testing

12. PHP 5.3.0 Changes

    PHP 5.3.0 looks promising.

    • #Personal
    • #PHP
    • #Programming
    • #Web

13. 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.

    • #Django
    • #documentation
    • #jquery
    • #PHP

14. Variable Variables and Arrays

    Memorize the order of operations, I guess.

    • #Web
    • #PHP
    • #Programming

15. Smarter Parsing with Smarty

    Don't gobble my markup.

    • #Web
    • #PHP
    • #Programming
    • #smarty

16. ADOdb, MySQL, and Transactions

    Transactions should be supported by everything.

    • #Personal
    • #ADOdb
    • #PHP
    • #Programming