Posts tagged “php”

I have been publishing articles and links rather intermittently on this site for just over a year now. While I’m not the most prolific blogger, I do try to make sure that the stuff I post here is of good quality. I won’t ever post something here that I don’t think will be of some use to me personally in the future. I am currently in the process of learning how to manage my time so that I can post content more regularly. The goal is two-fold: 1) I’d like to increase my readership and 2) I’d really like to improve my writing skills.

PHP 5.3 is out. Really looking forward to finally being able to use late static bindings, closures, and the new i18n extension.

For a recent project of mine, I needed to create a type-safe collection of objects in PHP. However, normal PHP arrays don’t support this kind of behavior. I could create a class to do the job, but I’ll have to do a little work to make it function like a real array.

A few months ago, I was looking for a way to install PHP 5.3 alongside 5.2 on my development machine, a MacBook. Why? It has a lot to do with the new late static bindings and namespaces that have already been committed into PHP’s HEAD. I’ve been anticipating these features for a while now, and I was anxious to try them out.