php 5

Martynas Jusevicius' Blog: Method overloading in PHP 5

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:28:50 -0600

Martynas Jusevicius has a new post looking at method overloading in PHP5 - a workaround to make it possible at least.

Method overloading in PHP 5 - Martynas Jusevicius

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:21:47 -0600

Method overloading (a feature of object-oriented programing which allows having several class methods with the same name but different signatures) is not implemented in PHP, which is a drawback compared to Java. However, PHP 5 provides a way to imitate overloading by catching calls to inaccessible methods with magic method __call.

Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: Freezing and Thawing PHP Objects

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:12:18 -0600

Sebastian Bergmann has posted details (and a patch) for freezing and unfreezing objects via the new setAccessible method included in the SPL in PHP 5.3.

1, 2, 3, 4.... five, 5.2.7RC5 is released - Pierre

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:42:50 -0600

PHP 5.2.7RC5 has been released. Please test it

The sources can be fetch here (zip sources are available on the windows site as well) and the binaries in the windows site.

Note to self: sigh

Announce
Windows QA Builds
Sources releases

Speaking at Conférence PHP Québec 2009 - Sebastian Bergmann

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:05:00 -0600

I will present two sessions at the Conférence PHP Québec 2009:

Administering RBAC in PHP 5 CMS Framework

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:05:53 -0600

Webreference: "The administration of the system could be done by writing directly to the database, since that is what most of the operations involve. There are strong reasons not to do so."

David Otton's Blog: Neat PHP Tricks: How To Assign References to...

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:32:18 -0600

David Otton has a new neat PHP trick posted today - assigning references to global values.

DevShed: Building a Modular Exception Class in PHP 5

admin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:03:49 -0600

DevShed has posted the final part of their series on handling exceptions in PHP5 applications. In this part they wrap up the creation of their modular exceptions class.

PHP 5 CMS Framework Development: Access Control

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:03:56 -0600

WebReference: "Many websites will want to control who has access to what. Once embarked on this route, it turns out there are many situations where access control is appropriate, and they can easily become very complex. So in this chapter we look at the most highly regarded model--role-based access control--and find ways to implement it."

Sameer's Blog: Simple Pagination in PHP tutorial

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:29:02 -0500

Sameer has posted a new tutorial to his blog recently, a look at a drop-in solution for pagination in your application - the PEAR Pager package.