Maggie Nelson's Blog: How to (and how not to) pass an array from PHP to the...
In a new post today, Maggie Nelson starts with the wrong way to do something - passing an array from PHP to a database - and works backward to make it all right. It would be really useful to have an...
View ArticleInternet Super Hero Blog: PHP: mysqli_stmt_get_result()
Frustrated with the lack of something simple (like mysql_fetch_assoc) in the new mysqli extension, this new function was created an posted about on the Internet Super Hero blog -...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: The state of functional programming in PHP
On the SitePoint PHP Blog today, Troels Knak-Nielsen has written up a post concerning the current state of functional programming in PHP. With the rise of Javascript, and languages like Python and...
View ArticleDavey Shafik's Blog: Debugging PDO Prepared Statements
In a recent post to his blog, Davey Shafik looks at solving something that has "always bugged him about using prepared statements" - getting the actual query it used back out. Today, a friend asking...
View ArticleBrian Swan's Blog: What's the Right Way to Prevent SQL Injection in PHP Scripts?
Brian Swan has a new post today looking at one way you can protect your web application from potential attack - preventing SQL injection by filtering input. How to prevent SQL injection in PHP scripts...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso's Blog: Performance analysis using bind parameters with PDO and...
Gonzalo Ayuso has posted the results of some performance testing he did with bind parameters in a PDO-based request for his application. Some months ago a work mate asked me for the differences...
View ArticleTill Klampaeckel's Blog: Zend Framework: Writing an IN-Clause with Zend_Db
In a new post to his blog Till Klampaeckel looks at something the Zend Framework's Zend_Db component dosen't seem to support - an "IN" on a fetchAll - and how he worked around it. The IN-clause is...
View ArticleDavey Shafik's Blog: The Closure Puzzle
Davey Shafik has posted about an interesting find with closures in PHP revolving around an update to add "$this" access inside the closure. However, it didn't stop there; there was also the addition...
View ArticleBinaryTides.com: PHP Socket programming tutorial
On the BinaryTides.com site there's a recent tutorial showing you how to effectively use sockets in your PHP applications, complete with incoming and outgoing examples. This is a quick guide/tutorial...
View ArticleMarco Pivetta: Accessing private PHP class members without reflection
Marco Pivetta has posted about an interesting trick you can do with closures in PHP related to accessing private properties inside classes. A couple of weeks ago I was working on a very tricky issue...
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