milesjohnson

If you haven't heard of Namespaces, or even PHP 5.3, you need to stop living under a rock. I've had quite a bit of fun the past month messing around with namespaces in 5.3, and I have got to say, they are the greatest addition to PHP yet. If you are unfamiliar with namespaces, it's a feature that allows you to add another layer of ownership and packaging to functions and classes, similar to how classes add a layer onto methods (ala functions). Continue reading...

So over the years I have written many small code snippets, functions and what have you, and thought it would be a good idea to release them to you guys. I use most of these snippets on my own projects and applications and are great to be re-usable everywhere. Most, if not all the snippets, will deal with PHP and Javascript, however I have thrown in some CakePHP and jQuery ones. Continue reading...

I always thought CSS should have a little bit more power, like the use of inline programming functions and dynamic variables. That's exactly why I set out to write my Compression class. On top of compressing the CSS files, saving cached versions and assigning dynamic variables, the class can now call PHP functions that have been written inline within the CSS itself. Continue reading...

It has been quite a while since I posted a real entry, I just haven't worked in CakePHP for the past few weeks. Hopefully these two new scripts and the new script versions will make up for it. Continue reading...

I just bought my ticket for ZendCon, 2 hours before the discount ended, pretty stoked about that. This will be my first PHP/Developers conference and I am thoroughly looking forward to it. I never really had an interest in these before but my passion for PHP has grown tremendously this past year, so its only fitting that I go. I will be going with some friends and colleagues, so it should be a blast and not just me by my lonesome. Continue reading...