I was recently provided a review copy of CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development by Adam Griffith (Packt Publishing). It claims that it will help the reader “Become a CodeIgniter expert with professional tools, techniques and extended libraries.” As someone who has used CodeIgniter and found it to be very useful, I was looking forward to [...]
Archive of posts filed under the OOP category.
Object Iteration in PHP 5
PHP 5 gives us the ability to iterate through objects much as we can with arrays, such as with the foreach() loop construct. I knew this ability existed but had not really looked into it or made use of it. However as a result of a thread at PHPBuilder.com, I thought this might be a [...]
Beginners’ Corner: Learning Object-Oriented PHP
I often see PHP newbies (and even not-so-newbies) who are confused by the world of object-oriented programming (OOP). At least part of this confusion results from the vast majority of introductory books and tutorials for PHP beginning by teaching procedural programming techniques, treating OOP as an “advanced” subject with a chapter or two at the [...]
Implementing a Database-based Session-handler
While I’ve been using the database session data handler in the CodeIgniter framework for some time, upon reading this thread at PHPBuilder forums I decided it was time to write my own. In part I just wanted to gain a more thorough understanding of the process, and I also figured I could use it some [...]
