You’d think as a professional (in some capacity) web developer, I’d be one of these people who kept up with the trends and all the new tools out there that try and make my life that little bit easier. Well you’d be wrong. I still don’t use Google Reader, despite the fact I think it’s [...]
Last weekend, I was lucky enough to attend my first conference as a delegate with Andrew Taylor at the PHPNW conference in Manchester, and had a fantastic time! I met some great new people, learned a great many new things, and even had time for a couple of beers and a curry while I was [...]
Update This article is now available in Serbo-Croatian, thanks to Vera Djuraskovic from Webhostinggeeks.com, who’s very kindly translated it! Validation is one of the basic uses of PHP, and one of the things we learn first as PHP developers. However, it’s basic doesn’t lend itself to the fact that it is both time-consuming, and can [...]
PHP MySQL Support Using MySQL with PHP has traditionally been one of the most flexible and most used combinations of server-side languages and database engines. PHP and MySQL were quickly tied together when PHP caught on, and the relationship has continued ever since. Originally, when PHP was an entirely procedural scripting language, the MySQL functionality [...]
This is hopefully the first in a few posts that will describe and explain a quick and easy method to get something up and running using PHP. This tutorial will talk through a class I wrote extremely quickly that can pull tweets using Twitter’s REST API from both protected and public accounts, and that will [...]
A while ago, I realised how difficult it can be in PHP to work with multi-dimensional arrays, especially sorting and converting them. A lot of PHP’s built-in array functions like array_unique, ksort, etc. do not work with multi-dimensional arrays, and leave it up to the developer to provide the functionality. I ended up making a [...]
