Working with and looping through arrays is one of the most useful things you can learn how to do with web applications. Anything from forms, API’s to configuration values, arrays make it easy in working with values. Take look at this simple example that illustrates the basics in working with the $_POST array. Continue reading
PHP Tips and Tricks
PHP tips and tricks in working with PHP and related topics. These PHP programming advice will help you be a better PHP programmer, and come from someone who does this for a living.
PHP Script Tips: Cool Secrets of PHP
Over the years I’ve come across some things in PHP that are not obvious, but are worth mentioning. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all of the useful tricks that you can do with PHP. If you have anything to add to the tips, please comment! Continue reading
Facebook API and the Future of Social Networking
It is very frustrating to work with a framework system where you cannot get the examples to work properly. It makes it a very time consuming process in getting things to work.
Over the last few weeks I’ve spent a lot of time working with the Facebook API for several different implementations. Logically, I first looked for documentation in how to work with the system to do what it needed to do. That is when I encountered the fact that there are many different ways in using the system, but there is not a lot of clear documentation. Continue reading
The Best PHP Framework: CodeIgniter
About a year and a half ago, a friend of mine mentioned a PHP framework that I never heard of called CodeIgniter. At the time, I had been working on a custom framework system for a while that worked fairly well. However, given the fact that I was not able to find time in fine tuning the system because of the work load in the shop (with the company I worked for at the time), I was not able to progress the system as far as I liked. Continue reading
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