PEAR Blog: The new Group has been elected!
According to this new post on the PEAR blog, the new PEAR Group has been officially elected: I am more than glad to announce the arrival, the announcement of the new PEAR Group for 2009 and 2010. With...
View ArticleStoimen Popov's Blog: preg_match Give Names to the Matches
In a quick post to hos blog today Stoimen Popov points out a handy feature of the preg_match function in PHP (in PHP 5.2.2 and higher) to be able to name the results of the regular expression match....
View ArticleAndrey Hristov's Blog: Replacing mysqli's Connection, Result and Statement...
On his blog today Andrey Hristov has a quick post that talks about two methods to extend the functionality that the mysqli extension offers in PHP with your own custom code. Have you ever though about...
View ArticleW3Techs.com: Highlights of web technology surveys, Nov. 2010: 3/4 of all...
According to a new article on the W3Tech.com site today, around three quarters of all websites are based on PHP. They've run their own survey to gather the results about the use of several different...
View ArticleChris Jones' Blog: PHP OCI8 and Oracle 11g DRCP Connection Pooling in Pictures
Chris Jones has posted some "pictures" of the performance that an Oracle database sees when it uses the connection pooling versus the normal connect/allocate sort of connection with the Oracle OCI8...
View ArticleKevin Schroeder's Blog: What to make of TIOBE's PHP results
Kevin Schroeder has some of his own thoughts on the recent results of the TIOBE index ranking the popularity of programming languages. PHP has slopped down two spots, replaced by Python and C++. He...
View ArticleChris Jones' Blog: More on PHP and Oracle 11gR2 Improvements to Client Result...
Chris Jones has posted more information to his Oracle blog about the caching and other improvements that come along with the Oracle 11gR2 release that can be used in PHP applications. Oracle 11.2...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Sophisticated Object Iterators in PHP
Following up on their earlier simple object iterators post, the SitePoint PHP blog is back with a look at more sophisticated iterators you can use to work with database record objects. In my previous...
View ArticleJohannes Schluter's Blog: mysqlnd plugins and json
Johannes Schluter has shared a handy mysqlnd plugin that he's written up that does two common things at once when you're pulling data from your database and pushing it into JSON - a...
View ArticleChris Jones: Using PHP and Oracle Database 12c Implicit Result Sets
Chris Jones has a new post to his site showing you how to use Oracle 12c's implicit result sets in your code. Note: this functionality is still in development, so the naming/exact functionality might...
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