The Real Error

flickr: by Poulepondeuse

Sometimes a PHP script may produce an inconsistent type of error, i.e. in one version of PHP a less serious parse error displays while in another version a fatal error message appears. 

Web & PHP Conference 2013 TALK – Resources

The following links pertain to the talk “PHP: Quirks, Gotchas & Wizardry” which I gave at the Web & PHP Conference in San Jose, CA, Sept. 2013.  

OSCON 2013 TALK – Resources

Hexadecimal clock (Photo credit: adactio)

A Story Problem with One Result and Two Solutions

by Melody Johnson Quilts

An employee stacks five boxes in alphabetical order to produce the following sequence of labeled boxes:

A
AA
B
BB
C

Integers and Relativity in PHP

What is universally true about integers in PHP is that they constitute whole numbers and their representations include a range of formats, such as hexadecimal, decimal, octal and even binary since PHP5.4. Surprisingly,

ArrayObject vs Array Access

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I recently dusted off one of my older PHP books,

Partial Application Technique in PHP

Now that we have lambdas and closures in PHP5.3, we can use a functional programming technique known as partial application.

Hopscotch

by Decently Exposed

Today I’m going to play a sort of hopscotch on the computer

SimpleXML – Less than Simple?

Image via Wikipedia

I like SimpleXML and it is usually my first choice when it comes to having PHP read XML.

Algorithmic Reversals

Consider the problem of taking a string and using PHP to display it in reverse