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A Quick Overview of Eloquent’s (Laravel) Mass-assignment Protection 14 May 2013 | 01:48 pm
Lavarel’s ORM (Eloquent) provides a beautiful , simple Active-Record implementation for working with your database . Each database table has a corresponding “Model_Class” which is used to interact wi...
Boosting the Performance of a PHP-project with an Autoload Class Map 15 Apr 2013 | 02:57 pm
The de facto standard for developing PHP applications is the OOP – model , it’s the most adopted programming paradigm in today’s software design . For organizational reasons , each Class (or Interface...
A Basic Introduction to PHP Streams 4 Apr 2013 | 05:23 pm
Streams is a feature of PHP that was introduced in PHP 4.3 to unify the methods for working on files , network-sockets , data compression , and other operations which share a common set of functionali...
Setting up SourceGear’s DiffMerge with Git on Windows 7 29 Mar 2013 | 10:09 pm
Git is an open source version control system (VCS) , a command line tool for keeping a history on the state of your source code projects . It is fully distributed , which means that it can work almost...
How to Install Alternative PHP Cache (APC) on Windows (WAMP) 13 Mar 2013 | 05:34 pm
Alternative PHP Cache is a free open source extension for the PHP-engine (interpreter) . Its task is to store compiled results (bytecode) into shared memory (caching and optimizing PHP intermediate co...
Sending emails Using Zend_Mail and Google Smtp 8 Feb 2013 | 02:46 pm
The Zend Framework provides the Zend_Mail component to compose and send both text and MIME-compliant multipart e-mail messages . Due to ZF’s loosely coupled architecture , each component can be used a...
Using Array-syntax to Access PHP-object Values 25 Jan 2013 | 01:30 am
Since PHP 5 we can “cast” an object to an array and use array-like syntax to manipulate its content . This works fine on simple data-structures . However , often we write object-oriented code in which...
Exploring SPL : An Overview of the Iterator and IteratorAgreggate Interface 23 Jan 2013 | 03:50 am
My previous article (introduction to Iterators) made a short introduction about Iterators and the basic concepts of their functionality . This article , and all articles that will follow , will presen...
Exploring SPL : An Introduction to Iterators 21 Jan 2013 | 03:56 am
The Standard PHP Library (SPL) is a set of functions , Classes and Interfaces built into PHP since version 5.0 , and as of PHP 5.3 it cannot even be disabled . Each new PHP-release , expands this libr...
Writing PHP Classes with “Callback-aware” functionality 12 Jan 2013 | 03:06 pm
Many PHP Classes and core-functions have a “callback-aware” functionality , for instance : array_walk , usort , preg_replace_callback , header_register_callback , SPL’s CallbackFilterIterator are a r...
