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Working with PHP’s ArrayObject: Favour Composition over Inheritance

I was just reading through the current issue of php|architect (April 2008) and I noticed a particular piece of code that irked me to the point that I need to write about it. If you’re interested, the article is Exceptional … Continue reading

Oh CRUD… (Part 3)

Well, somewhat unfortunately, there won’t be a part 3 to this blog post. I ended up pitching the idea to php|architect magazine (http://www.phparch.com) and they will be publishing it in their july 2008 issue. I’ll post any links and relevant … Continue reading

Zend Framework Extensions

Recently we made the decision to move from our custom php framework to the zend framework. With the recent 1.5 release, the zend framework has shown that it’s truly a force to be reckoned with. However, I quickly found that … Continue reading

Oh CRUD… (Part 2)

My last post was basically just an outline of the CRUD processes and a brief touch on the design patterns that will allow us to make dealing with CRUD a thing of the past. If you weren’t already, hopefully by … Continue reading

Oh CRUD…

If you’ve been doing web programming for even a small amount of time, you’ll already have noticed the massive amount of repetition when creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting (CRUD) rows from a database. They don’t call it crud for nothin’… … Continue reading

Working With The DOM In PHP

For some reason the php community decided to completely neglect the documentation for their DOMDocument API. Only a few of the more popular functions have any documentation; and of that fraction the documentation is less than helpful. With the onset … Continue reading