Installing PHP-Gtk and PHP 5.2 and Pear on Windows in April 2010
Thursday, April 15th, 2010After battling for some hours I have managed to install php-gtk with PHP on my Windows XP …
Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category
Setting the referrer in SimpleTest web tests - faking the HTTP_REFERER
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Sometimes you might want to make a PHP web page do different things depending on the value …
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 …
call for new programming language written with refactoring tools in mind
Sunday, December 20th, 2009i have just read Fowler’s Refactoring book and went looking for a php refactoring tool. Its …
Picking Aggregate Roots - Domain Driven Design
Saturday, October 17th, 2009How to Access Custom Config Settings Within Bootstrap - Zend Framework Application
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Ok - so you have a Zend Framework ini file that contains the line:
mycustom.setting ="bar"
…and you want …
