Comments for PHP Musings http://www.charles-reace.com/blog Random thoughts about PHP, MySQL, and life in general Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Beginners’ Corner: Learning Object-Oriented PHP by nodehead http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/10/27/beginners-corner-learning-object-oriented-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1757 nodehead Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:22:46 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=231#comment-1757 Nice resource list - I somehow hadn't come across the IBM pages before, thank you. For anyone who's really just starting off, The Bear Necessities is quite an entertaining introduction to OOP over at Zend's devzone (but, the ABSOLUTE basics): http://devzone.zend.com/article/638 Nice resource list – I somehow hadn’t come across the IBM pages before, thank you. For anyone who’s really just starting off, The Bear Necessities is quite an entertaining introduction to OOP over at Zend’s devzone (but, the ABSOLUTE basics):

http://devzone.zend.com/article/638

]]> Comment on Book List App: One Query to Rule Them All by PHP Musings » Blog Archive » Book List App: One Query to Rule Them All | Coder Online http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/12/10/book-list-app-one-query-to-rule-them-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 PHP Musings » Blog Archive » Book List App: One Query to Rule Them All | Coder Online Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:53:21 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=246#comment-1755 [...] Continued here: PHP Musings » Blog Archive » Book List App: One Query to Rule Them All [...] [...] Continued here: PHP Musings » Blog Archive » Book List App: One Query to Rule Them All [...]

]]> Comment on Book List Application by PHP Musings » Blog Archive » Book List App: One Query to Rule Them All http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/09/16/book-list-application/comment-page-1/#comment-1754 PHP Musings » Blog Archive » Book List App: One Query to Rule Them All Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:58:22 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=205#comment-1754 [...] to Rule Them All December 10, 2009 4:58 am Charles PHP, SQL I got side-tracked from working on this project for awhile, but I am trying to get back to it [...] [...] to Rule Them All December 10, 2009 4:58 am Charles PHP, SQL I got side-tracked from working on this project for awhile, but I am trying to get back to it [...]

]]> Comment on Memory Usage in PHP GD Image Functions by Felix http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/11/18/memory-usage-in-php-gd-image-functions/comment-page-1/#comment-1753 Felix Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:51 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=243#comment-1753 Very interesting. I didn't know that GD holds image resources as bitmaps in RAM. This also means that any operations you do on an image will not modify it's size in RAM and that even a blank image, created using imagecreate[truecolor]() will potentially use up a lot of memory. Very interesting. I didn’t know that GD holds image resources as bitmaps in RAM. This also means that any operations you do on an image will not modify it’s size in RAM and that even a blank image, created using imagecreate[truecolor]() will potentially use up a lot of memory.

]]> Comment on MySQLi: Avoid Explicitly Listing Every Column in bind_result() by Charles http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/04/28/mysqli-avoiding-bind_result-for-every-column/comment-page-1/#comment-1752 Charles Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:03:54 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=177#comment-1752 As an addendum to this, you can use a similar technique with a variable number of input parameters and the bind_param() function as described at http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?p=10933647#post10933647 . As an addendum to this, you can use a similar technique with a variable number of input parameters and the bind_param() function as described at http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?p=10933647#post10933647 .

]]> Comment on Book List App: Using Auto-Suggest with CodeIgniter by Felix http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/09/22/book-list-app-using-auto-suggest-with-codeigniter/comment-page-1/#comment-1750 Felix Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:37:35 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=217#comment-1750 Indeed, AutoSuggest scripts can be hard to "import" and adapt to your own project, mainly because each project is unique. I wrote an AutoSuggest script from the ground up (well, using MooTools) for tastekid.com. Challenges included (well, besides the usual browser inconsistencies and cross-platformness) getting a non-standard response (well, it's JSON, but formatted more weirdly), a more complex way of filtering results (e.g. if you type "Ra" it will also suggest "*The* Ramones") and finding the right balance between javascript filtering of results and PHP filtering. Normally, PHP would return 20-some results, but javascript would display only 5 of them and keep filtering them as the user types. When it has less than two suggestions, it will make another request. It was a two-day job, but it was fun :) You can view the script (if you care) <a href="http://www.tastekid.com/javascript/ac.js" rel="nofollow">here</a> (the site doesn't include it, it uses a single cached and minified js file that contains everything). Indeed, AutoSuggest scripts can be hard to “import” and adapt to your own project, mainly because each project is unique. I wrote an AutoSuggest script from the ground up (well, using MooTools) for tastekid.com. Challenges included (well, besides the usual browser inconsistencies and cross-platformness) getting a non-standard response (well, it’s JSON, but formatted more weirdly), a more complex way of filtering results (e.g. if you type “Ra” it will also suggest “*The* Ramones”) and finding the right balance between javascript filtering of results and PHP filtering. Normally, PHP would return 20-some results, but javascript would display only 5 of them and keep filtering them as the user types. When it has less than two suggestions, it will make another request. It was a two-day job, but it was fun :)
You can view the script (if you care) here (the site doesn’t include it, it uses a single cached and minified js file that contains everything).

]]> Comment on NetBeans: Opening a Non-Project File by Charles http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/04/05/netbeans-opening-a-non-project-file/comment-page-1/#comment-1746 Charles Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:33:54 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=167#comment-1746 Glad it helped you. I'm also glad to see it wasn't just me who did not find this intuitive. Glad it helped you. I’m also glad to see it wasn’t just me who did not find this intuitive.

]]> Comment on NetBeans: Opening a Non-Project File by nrg_alpha http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/04/05/netbeans-opening-a-non-project-file/comment-page-1/#comment-1745 nrg_alpha Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:43:16 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=167#comment-1745 Ah, that's nice to know! Thanks for bringing that up. I too always wondered about that (I'm not entirely keen on putting EVERYTHING into projects [other than complete website projects that is]). I gravitated to NetBeans 6.5 from Dreamweaver a while ago, as I do find it to be an exceptional IDE over all (packed with lots of features and customizability). But I also found that googling things (much like you did) revealed more about the app than the documentation. I'll chalk this one up as yet another nice little nugget. Cheers Ah, that’s nice to know! Thanks for bringing that up. I too always wondered about that (I’m not entirely keen on putting EVERYTHING into projects [other than complete website projects that is]).

I gravitated to NetBeans 6.5 from Dreamweaver a while ago, as I do find it to be an exceptional IDE over all (packed with lots of features and customizability). But I also found that googling things (much like you did) revealed more about the app than the documentation. I’ll chalk this one up as yet another nice little nugget.

Cheers

]]> Comment on UTF8 in PHP and MySQL by Felix http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/10/03/utf8-in-php-and-mysql/comment-page-1/#comment-1744 Felix Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:26:20 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=103#comment-1744 Regarding the 2008/10/04 addition: I think using htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8"); should work fine and it would even be safer than htmlspecialchars() because it will convert more characters. :-) Regarding the 2008/10/04 addition: I think using htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT, “UTF-8″); should work fine and it would even be safer than htmlspecialchars() because it will convert more characters. :-)

]]> Comment on NetBeans IDE and PHP by criterion9 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/12/12/netbeans-ide-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1742 criterion9 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:48:32 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=137#comment-1742 I love the latest NetBeans IDE. You can quickly import javascript frameworks and libraries into your PHP apps and do line by line debugging on the fly. It will also parse the source files for "documentation" to feed you during auto complete. I love the latest NetBeans IDE. You can quickly import javascript frameworks and libraries into your PHP apps and do line by line debugging on the fly. It will also parse the source files for “documentation” to feed you during auto complete.

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