iterators

On the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new post from Craig Buckler looking (quickly) at a handy feature of the Standard PHP Library (SPL) that can help make working with objects and arrays simpler - object iterators.

On Iteration, by Andrei Alexandrescu.

EventMachine is a simple(ish), fast, event-driven I/O library for Ruby.

Its goal is to provide highly scalable I/O performance with an easy-to-use API wrapped around the nastiest parts of the process (since typical Ruby coding practices aren't particularly event-driven friendly).

DevX: "This article shows you how to use the most important iterator classes: ArrayIterator, DirectoryIterator, FilterIterator, and so forth, found in the Standard PHP Library (SPL), and how to integrate SPL with PHP Data Objects (PDO)."

Rafael Dohms has posted the first part of a series he's writing looking at the Iterators that come with the Standard PHP Library (SPL).

In this first article he focuses on Directory iterators.

Since sometimes you just don't want all of the results of a query back at once, Rob Young has posted a solution of his own using the Iterators included with PHP as a part of the SPL.

His solution is to wrap it in a ChunkedQueryIterator that handles the work behind the scenes.

DevShed finishes off their "loader" series of tutorials today with this eighth part focusing on the use of Directory Iterators.

Earlier this month Rafael Dohms posted a new article to his blog looking at a feature of PHP it seems not every developer knows about - the Standard PHP Library (or SPL).

From the Procurios blog there's a recent post looking at a method letting you use a foreach on the results from a MySQLi request - SPL Iterators.