milesjohnson

The Numword class will rarely find a use, but its creation was primarily for fun. A friend of mine asked me if there was a PHP function that will turn a number into its word equivalent (example, 100 becomes one-hundred). As none existed, I felt like this would be a fun task to attempt, and so the Numword class was born. Numword supports the basic range of numbers and the ability to convert up to centillion (which is mind blowingly large). Continue reading...

Everyone caches, that's a pretty well known fact. However, the problem I always seemed to have was how to properly name my cache keys. After much trial and tribulation, I believe I have found a great way to properly name cache keys. Continue reading...

Before PHP 5.3 was released, many programmers would suffix their classnames with the package and or module that it pertains to. For example, SessionHelper, UsersController, CommentModel, so on and so forth. But with the recent upgrade to namespaces, are these types of suffixes still required? Continue reading...

Getters and Setters are the backbone of many PHP classes (or any programming language class), as they allow you to alter and retrieve class properties during runtime. Many well thought and powerful scripts and frameworks make use of Getters and Setters, but is there a thing as too much? Or are there better and easier alternatives? Continue reading...

I am proud to present the new Databasic, version 2.0! Since I added quite a few new methods and functionality, rewrote and optimized most of the code, I felt it would be good to deem this version 2.0 instead of 1.11. The biggest new features in this version are support for multiple databases, using the create() method to create a database table, and the addition of many MySQL statement methods. Continue reading...