DevShed: The Basics of Using the Factory Pattern in PHP 5
DevShed revisits its series on using design patterns in PHP applications with this new tutorial, a look at implementing the Factory pattern in PHP 5. Summarizing, the factory pattern can be really...
View ArticleDevShed: The Switch Statement and Arrays
DevShed continues their series looking at some of the fundamentals of working with PHP in this new tutorial posted today. It looks at one of the flow control statements the language has to offer and a...
View ArticleMind Tree Blog: Friendly URLs in PHP: why do you care?
This new post from the Mind Tree blog (at hurricanesoftware.com) asks the question "why do you care about friendly URLs in PHP applications?" Nice URLs, readable URLs, search-engine-friendly URLs....
View ArticleIlia Alshanetsky's Blog: Type hinting for PHP 5.3
One of the features included in the PHP 5.x releases is type hinting for validating that you have the right values for your functions and methods coming in. In this new post to his blog Ilia...
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 ArticleLorna Mitchell's Blog: PHP Returning Numeric Values in JSON
Lorna Mitchell has a quick reminder about an issue in the new joind.in API version - everything was being returned as strings, even integers. A few weeks later (my inbox is a black hole and it takes a...
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