Poor PHP. It’s so lonely and unloved these days. Well, maybe not lonely – it still undergirds Facebook, Wikipedia and WordPress, amongst a fair number of others. But, certainly, unloved – and not without some justification. Despite working primarily...
The Rundown Yii Framework is getting ever closer to a 2.0 release, with the public preview announced in March now only having 60 open issues (579 closed). There are a lot of changes from Yii 1.1. Let’s take a look at a few of ’em. Namespaces Now that PHP...
I have been working on licensed PHP/Yii webapp that is highly customizable. Clients can specify all sort of custom views, behaviors, and workflows. We were running into situations where one client wanted a page to look one way, and another wanted it to look another...
MacGDBp – A neat PHP debugger for Mac users MacGDBp is a nifty Mac application by Blue Static (http://www.bluestatic.org) for debugging PHP web applications. MacGDGp works with the Xdebug extension and is very easy to set up. Like any other debugger, MacGDBp...
Ran into an interesting, but thorough, rant the other day – PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design. The part that grabbed me the most was the analogy at the beginning, which was all too perfect:I can’t even say what’s wrong with PHP, because— okay. Imagine you have uh, a...
