https://www.fplanque.com/categories/php/ Recent content in Php on fplanque.com [EN] Hugo -- 0.134.3 en-us Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:18:18 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/flush-bug-in-php-5-4/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:02:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/flush-bug-in-php-5-4/ For some reason, nobody seems to acknowledge there is a bug with Codeflush() in PHP 5.4. In any previous version of PHP, you could just do: PHPflush(); and the PHP output buffer would be sent to Apache which would in turn send it to your web browser.… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/why-echo-is-slow-in-php-how-to-make-it-really-fast/ Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:40:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/why-echo-is-slow-in-php-how-to-make-it-really-fast/ You may have noticed that PHP scripts that echo a lot of content appear to be running with poor performance... Well, the operative word here is "appear". It is a common misconception that "echo is the slowest PHP command"! The problem is actually… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/install-apc-php-cache-debian-lenny/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:50:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/install-apc-php-cache-debian-lenny/ The APC cache can significantly improve your PHP script performance, just by installing it, whoch basically takes 5 minutes! Here's what I did on my Debian Lenny box... First you may want to have a reference benchmark to see if it actually improves:… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-5-migration-chicken-egg/ Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:55:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-5-migration-chicken-egg/ It's been 3 years since PHP 5 has been released. Yet PHP 4 still rules on the vast majority of web hosting platforms. This is annoying for PHP open source developers who cannot leverage the potential of PHP 5 as long as they need to support PHP 4. Thi… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/rasmus-i-dont-like-soap/ Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:33:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/rasmus-i-dont-like-soap/ At PHP Forum, Rasmus wisefully explained that SOAP is intrinsically broken because it's too complex... just as anything that takes more than 20 minutes to understand. When it comes to webservices, I myself tend to prefer XML-RPC ("Does distributed co… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-why-use-dom-xml-writer-functions/ Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:11:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-why-use-dom-xml-writer-functions/ There's one thing I was wondering about: why would you actually want to use the DOM/XML writing functions of PHP to generate XML? I mean: we've been generating HTML without specific functions for over 10 years, so why would we need a library to build a… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/status-of-php-5/ Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:36:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/status-of-php-5/ Here are a few bits of information I collected at PHP Forum (Nov 9 & 10, 2005): It is estimated than no more than 5% of the servers running PHP have switched to PHP 5 yet PHP 5.0 is a feature release, not a performance release. Therefore it is… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/rasmus-on-templating-engines/ Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:09:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/rasmus-on-templating-engines/ At PHP Forum, Rasmus said this about the "templating engine question coming back every year": PHP *is* a templating engine by itself. Adding another templating engine on top of it just doesn't make sense. The only situation where it makes sense, is… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/caching-built-into-php/ Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:39:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/caching-built-into-php/ The PHP Core Team is meeting this week to decide wether or not there should be some caching built into the next major release of PHP. (I guess that would be PHP 6). I definitely hope the answer will be YES since this has been available on others… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-forum-paris-2005/ Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:34:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-forum-paris-2005/ I've spent the last two days at PHP Forum Paris 2005. Very interesting stuff! I'll try to blog the most important facts (IMHO) over the week-end... But, now when you think about it, I've been there last year also... Very interesting stuff also... And I… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/mvc-smarty-templating-inefficient/ Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:26:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/mvc-smarty-templating-inefficient/ Most PHP developers (and other web developpers too) seem to evolve on a similar path which goes like this: Step 1: take HTML pages an add PHP tags into them. Step 2: Realize that on a large scale this is getting very hard to maintain. Step 3: Learn… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-variable-names-member-names-class-names/ Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:37:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-variable-names-member-names-class-names/ I have just extended my PHP coding standard guidelines with these rules about variable naming: Remember this is PHP, not Microsoft Visual C++. There is actually little value in naming variables something like strFullTitle . Something like full_title is… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/databases/mysql/another-lousy-php-mysql-charset-issue/ Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:01:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/databases/mysql/another-lousy-php-mysql-charset-issue/ We had this quite interesting situation at work today: I export an UTF-8 MySQL database into an UTF_8 SQL file. I *binary* FTP the file over to him. He plays the SQL in PHPmyAdmin all configured for UTF-8. He then checks the data in PHPmyAdmin: special… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/databases/mysql/using-php-4-3-8-with-mysql-4-1/ Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:52:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/databases/mysql/using-php-4-3-8-with-mysql-4-1/ Running an app under PHP 4.3.8 and trying to connect to a MySQL 4.1 database can be pretty frustrating. By default it gives you a message like this: "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client".… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-output-buffering-and-ob_handlers/ Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:57:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-output-buffering-and-ob_handlers/ PHP has some nice features to do output buffering. You just call . This is supposed to let you do "kewl" post-processing operations like: gzip compression, adding an ETag, adding content-length of your whole output. Crap! There are only two situations… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/eclipse-for-php-eclipse-for-everyone/ Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:14:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/eclipse-for-php-eclipse-for-everyone/ I really like Eclipse as a Java IDE, I do! :D However I'm getting really tired of having a different IDE for each language I am working with, no matter how cool those IDEs might be. Different display conventions, different keyboard shortcuts, different… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/i18n/internationalizing-web-applications-using-gettext-in-php/ Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:11:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/i18n/internationalizing-web-applications-using-gettext-in-php/ As I have said before, gettext is a very interesting framework for i18n and i10n. Now the question is, how do I apply this to web applications? Actually, I'm going to restrict my discussion here to PHP since this is what I'm working with right now...… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/magpierss/ Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:26:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/magpierss/ MagpieRSS provides an XML-based (expat) RSS parser in PHP. MagpieRSS is compatible with RSS .9 through RSS 1.0, and supports the RSS 1.0's modules (with a few exceptions). https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/advanced-php-book/ Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:49:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/advanced-php-book/ So I've been developing on b2evolution for a couple of months now and people seem to be quite happy with it ;) (read the testimonials! ;) ) Nevertheless I still feel like I'd really need to learn PHP for real someday! :. I mean, it's easy to learn the… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/web-application-caching/ Sat, 28 Jun 2003 21:36:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/web-application-caching/ Blogs, as most current web applications, need to address the server-side caching issue in order to reduce webserver load. It looks like most people are quite happy with caching static versions of their pages for some defined amount of time. This method… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-unpure/ Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:45:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-unpure/ "[...] as I have said so many times, PHP is not about purity in CS principles or architecture, it is about solving the ugly web problem with an admittedly ugly, but extremely functional and convenient solution. If you are looking for purity you are in… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-oddities/ Sat, 10 May 2003 13:50:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/web-dev/php/php-oddities/ Actually I had not really looked into PHP since early version 3 betas... I knew it had gotten better, but sometimes I wonder if I didn't overestimate this... :-/ Looks like PHP 4.3 still requires that you name a collection of checkboxes or a select…