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Facebook Group

Gordon Forsythe — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:08 +0000

For those trying to find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/7088306282

azPHP.org migration

Gordon Forsythe — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:40:51 +0000

FYI: Going to start migrating the site over to a different server over the next few days, so you may experience some downtime.

Places to go to learn PHP

Gordon Forsythe — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:51:04 +0000

http://www.underworldmagazines.com/11-websites-to-learn-php/

Pretty good list. I’d have put php.net at the top though.

If PHP Were British

Gordon Forsythe — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:02:13 +0000

Hilarious post.
http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/

How to create your own Pear channel

Gordon Forsythe — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:54:58 +0000

Nice article: http://blog.stuartherbert.com/php/2011/03/30/setting-up-your-own-pear-channel/

Last Night: Extjs

Gordon Forsythe — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:00:49 +0000

We had fun looking at Ext.js last night. Nothing fancy; mainly just looking through the examples focusing on datagrids.

Extjs home:
http://www.sencha.com/

We also talked about some of the differences in a few of the popular javascript frameworks and a few good jQuery plugins.
Jqgrid Plugin
jQueryUI Themeroller

Dynamic Favicons

Gordon Forsythe — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:42:00 +0000

Little tutorial to add a bit of dynamic text to your site’s favicon (the icon that appears on the tab or window border). Google added a feature to gmail (available in Labs), which shows the number of new messages in your inbox using this kind of method.
http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2011/01/dynamic-unread-count-favicon-in-php.html

A comment thread about variable variables

Gordon Forsythe — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:27:09 +0000

Before you go reading this comment thread (link below) be aware that just because something is possible in a programming language, it doesn’t mean you should do things that way. Also, there’s a LOT of BAD code in the main post.

masklinn comments on Today I learned about PHP variable variables; “variable variable takes the value of a variable and treats that as the name of a variable”. Also, variable..

[The following is the opinion of Gordon, not necessarily AzPHP as a whole]

Personally, I avoid variable variables like the plague. If you feel the need to use one, step back and see if you can use an associative array instead. You will thank me later. An array structure is much easier to deal with than a bunch of unlinked funky-named variables that you have to rebuild each time you need them. Arrays are increasingly useful if you have to loop through said data structures or easily store them.

Variable variables are both powerful and a curse. Use them if you feel you must, but I only ask that you use them wisely.

PHP Object Oriented Programming Reinvented and Serializing Closures

Gordon Forsythe — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:00:57 +0000

Pretty bizarre…the idea is to programmatically create, extend, and modify objects directly from your code at run time instead of pre-creating your classes. Not saying it’s good or bad, just different. And yes, he does know the acronym is unfortunate.

http://dhotson.tumblr.com/post/1167021666/php-object-oriented-programming-reinvented

Related, someone figured a way to serialize closures into objects using reflection files.

http://www.htmlist.com/development/extending-php-5-3-closures-with-serialization-and-reflection/

Scaling Facebook

Gordon Forsythe — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:27:47 +0000

An interesting video on open source technologies used to scale Facebook.