milesjohnson

I'm quite ashamed. I work constantly on all my PHP codebases for myself and everyone that uses them... but... I rarely update my actual documentation. After multiple emails from frustrated developers letting me know my docs make no sense and are quite outdated, I went on an update spree. Continue reading...

However, my post today will be on the RFC suggestion for built in getters/setters. To keep it blunt, I really dislike the C# approach... it's, just not very PHP. Just seems odd to have floating curly blocks with a "get" and "set" in it, with no real defined scope block. On top of that, the "property" keyword is way too complicated for what it is trying to achieve. The one thing I do agree with though, is the readonly modifier. My suggestion is loosely based on the Traceur Compiler by Google syntax (they use get/set keywords instead of function, within the class). Continue reading...

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...

As with everyone else excited about PHP 5.3, I was looking forward to developing in it. I was especially excited to use the new shorthand ternary operator (?:). This would remove the redundant middle expression of returning the variable, and instead would return itself if it evaluated to true. But after much testing and trying to implement it in interesting ways, the shorthand ternary just isn't as useful as you would hope. The primary problem is the left-most expression must evaluate to true or false, which isn't possible with the shorthand. Continue reading...