Jun 28

PHP class: Text to anything

I recently had a client who sent me a 300+ list of items they wanted placing into a drop down select menu. Beside the obvious accessibility issues they were quite set in their ways about what they wanted—per usual.

Jun 26

Design Pattern I: Singleton

In this first episode of PHP design patterns, we will be looking at the Singleton. The Singleton is available in most, if not all, OO languages. The purpose of the Singleton is to only ever have 1 instance of a class available which supplies the rest of the application with consistent data. I would like to point out that my version of a Singleton may differ slightly from other peoples; design patterns are not exact nor are they set in stone.

Jun 19

phpSimpleAuthent

I was browsing a couple of PHP forums the other day, and it seems people require a simple authentication script for their website. So, I thought I would make just that.

Jun 11

Magically dynamic PHP

There are several functions in the PHP language which were made to make classes more accessible and dynamic. I am going to be talking about two of these so called “magic functions” which allow you to set and get information dynamically, whilst also providing a simple log to show you what is really going on behind the scenes. These two functions are of course __set() and __get().

Jun 8

PHP exception handling

Arguably one of the best things to come out of PHP5 was its improved OO support. With OO comes easier separation of presentation, data, and business logic layers which leads to reusable code and better code management, amongst a host of others.