AzPHP User's Group http://www.azphp.org The Arizona PHP User's Group Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3

Our next meeting is February 28th at 7:00pm at Walt's TV

Facebook Group http://www.azphp.org/2011/11/facebook-group/ http://www.azphp.org/2011/11/facebook-group/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:08 +0000 Gordon Forsythe http://www.azphp.org/?p=104 For those trying to find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/7088306282

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

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

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We’ll also be discussing what to do (and how, where, why, etc) for a group project, so bring a laptop so we can get set up.

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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

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http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2011/01/dynamic-unread-count-favicon-in-php.html

]]> http://www.azphp.org/2011/01/dynamic-favicons/feed/ 0 A comment thread about variable variables http://www.azphp.org/2010/10/thread-about-variable-variables/ http://www.azphp.org/2010/10/thread-about-variable-variables/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:27:09 +0000 Gordon Forsythe http://www.azphp.org/?p=64 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.

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A few in the list I’ve never heard of.

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