PHP Inheritance of a class property’s visibility
Friday, September 3rd, 2010In Object-Oriented PHP5 a class’s properties can have their ‘visibility‘ set.
If a property is undeclared …
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PHP Static Methods Can Be Declared Without Static Keyword But Called Statically
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Whenever I create a PHP class method that I intend to use statically, I declare it as …
Zend Config XML and INI files - How to Specify False and Other Non-String PHP Data Types
Friday, August 27th, 2010Zend Config INI and Zend Config XML are handy adaptors that allow you …
How to Convert a Legacy Site over to Zend Framework - 1 Favour Refactoring over Rewriting
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Over the years, I have often been faced with the choice of whether to refactor or rewrite.
In …
A PHP secret to understanding Data Mapper Pattern in Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (PoEAA)
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Here’s a snippet of a Java code example in Fowler’s esteemed book, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture …
How to Unit-Test for Expected Exception Thrown in Simpletest - *The* Answer
Saturday, January 16th, 2010I keep forgetting how to assert that an Exception is going to be thrown in Simpletest version …
Creating a PHP Subclassed Singleton to Apply Fowler’s “Introduce Null Object” Refactoring
Saturday, January 16th, 2010I found a need to implement the “Introduce Null Object“ refactoring procedure that is …
PHP - Getting __sleep to return all properties of an object
Monday, January 11th, 2010If you write a custom __sleep() magic method for a PHP class, you are expected …
Checking if an object has been serialized in PHP
Monday, January 11th, 2010I had a class that relied upon an object’s spl_object_hash() which the PHP documentation states …
