PHP is a widely-used, general-purpose server side scripting language that is especially suited for web development.
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Instantiating objects with many attributes
I have a class with quite a few attributes, most of which are known when I create an instance of the object. So I pass all the values in the constructor:
$op = new OpenIdProvider($imgPath . $name . ...
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Better separation of programming and presentation logic
I'm struggling for a while now with the readability of my code, I after I tried to get as much insight as possible (for my standards). On my level, I think I understand and use it all right for my ...
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Is_numeric_array() missing!
I found that in PHP (or i probably can't find it) a proper is_numeric_array($array) function is missing. So i created one. The problem is that i don't think it's great and i don't know how to improve ...
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Database connection in constructor and destructor
I am playing with different ways to do database interaction in PHP, and one of the ideas I have been playing with is connecting to the DB in the constructor and disconnecting in the destructor. This ...
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Small PHP Viewer/Controller template
I have written a small template Viewer/Controller esque library that I would like some critiques on.
The library is located here
If you are looking for where to start, check out App.php and ...
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CodeIgniter Active Record Subqueries
I use CodeIgniter at work, and one of our model files had a lot of subqueries in it. I originally had to manually write each subquery, and wondered if I could use active records instead.
So, to make ...
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PHP and Javascript work together to create a DRY mess!
Consider the following. It's a simple list of items in a list, which allow the user to dynamically generate that list of events. Then a controller action does the work of serializing that into the ...
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Good Practice: Loop And If statement
I'd like to know what is the best practice:
version A:
loop1
if condition1
code1
if condition2
code2
if condition3
code3
Or, version B:
if condition1
loop1 with code1
if ...
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PHP PDO Database Abstraction Layer
I'd like to get some feedback on a PHP Database Abstraction Layer I've created. It's a little long, but there really wasn't a way to just post part of it. Here is the base DBObject class for MySQL:
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Calculate a median - Too much code ?
I got this as an implementation of "get me the median of those values". But it sort of doesn't feel right (too long, too many branch points) so I thought I'll post it here to see what you think. :)
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How would a senior PHP developer design this Login class?
I incorporated the feedback I received from my previous post into a very simple Login class.
Main question:
How can I design this class and it's implementation so that it
looks like it was ...
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Looking at this code, would you say I'm an OK coder?
Looking at this code, would you say I'm an OK coder?
I just created this during a live screencast. The people who were on there were very very very critical of almost every line of code. They say I ...
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Best practice in php for “If the variable is empty, set a default value”
This is the pattern I've been using for "If the variable is empty, set a default value", and for variables like $muffin it has all seemed well and good. But in the following real example this pattern ...
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Checking date & time in php
Goal: To create a countdown to our next available live stream.
Details: We live stream six times a week all (PST).
1. Sunday at 8:00 a.m.
2. Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
3. Sunday at 12:00 p.m.
4. Sunday at ...
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How to improve this to a readable Unittests that explain the Class better ?
for starters i though of going with a mostly code only example.
This shows a testcase for an old caching library i use for a project. It features simple save/load/delete functions (saidly static ...
