PHP Weekly Reader – March 23th 2008
I'm a little late with the Weekly Reader, I spent some time with my family on Sunday and a hectic day at work on Monday. Luckily there wasn't much going on in my reader this last week that just had to be here, so this will be short otherwise it won't make it out before next weeks review.
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PHP Weekly Reader – March 16th 2008
I spend way too much time reading blogs, surfing PHP and web development articles online. I resolve to cut back but things just sneak back into my reader somehow, and believe me dzone doesn't help. But I've came up with a way to justify all that time, I call it research.
I thought I'd share a bit of this research so every Sunday night you will find a bit of commentary and a lot of links to things I found interesting in the PHP world over the previous week. Personally I like articles with code so you might see a lot of how-to links, and I don't much care who is going to what unconference, conference, camp or meet-up so I won't be tracking anyones itinerary. If you think I missed something let me know, really I hate missing out on new articles.
Clever Design meets TDD
I've been working on my own PHP framework for a while now. I use it as a scratch pad to try out new concepts. I recently decided that I wanted to make some architectural changes that I thought were super clever (yes I know super clever is nearly always too clever), things that would save me tons of tedious programming, free my mind from all the mundane details that I detest, maybe make toast. The inspiration was so intense that I made my changes first then thought about testing.
Thats where the containers are.
My post awhile back asking about container libraries drew a "you don't need them so why are you looking?" response. Well at least I know where they are now according to this announcement of new data structures in SPL.
I wish the documentation for the SPL was better, but I look forward to playing around with the new stuff anyways. In fact the documentation still has nothing.
Not sure I needed a whole post for this but I was glad to have the question answered for me.
PHP – No Container libraries?
Most compiled languages that I have used have some kind of container implementation, Lists, Maps, Trees, Stacks and all their many variations. PHP has arrays and the SPL.
This post is more of a question than anything else, are there disadvantages that I can't see to having a standard container library for PHP? One problem that I can see is that containers built in user code will definitely be slower than a native implementation.
Am I overlooking something that already exists? Google fails me!
PHP Application Configuration with YAML
I have always disliked creating configuration data by reading from various formats into global arrays, so I needed to build or borrow a configuration class for my own projects that I could standardize on.
Too busy to write!
I have recently been in the fortunate position of having more work than time. I sincerely apologize to my 1.9 unique visitors per week. I have re-evaluated my personal and work time and made hard decisions about what I can realistically accomplish in any one day.
Writing this blog is one thing I dont want to give up nor do I want to leave it in its neglected state. So beginning this week it became an official part of my workday and will be held to higher standards of quality and frequency of articles.
Those 1.9 unique visitors will at last have a reason to return.
When Pligg's Fly – Test flight
I was recently asked by a friend on a tight budget to help set up a small site similar to digg or some of the other social news and link aggregators. I thought it would be easy to find an open source project or three to choose from and adapt to their needs, but I only found one that was active and stable — Pligg. Since I am going to be working on this mini-project on and off for the next couple weeks I thought I would post my first impressions. By no means is this an exhaustive review just a quick overview after a couple hours.
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Url Routing with PHP – Part Three
In the final part of this series, I will build a functional modular front controller that can be easily adapted to small projects. It is basically the "C" in MVC for a simple MVC framework. If you haven't read the first two articles I recommend that you read over them first. Url Routing with PHP – Part One and Url Routing with PHP – Part Two.
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Url Routing with PHP – Part Two
This is the second part of a series, I assume you have read Url Routing with PHP – Part One as it covers the basics that I'll build on in Part Two.
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