Category Archives: PHP

Surnamespacing

By Zach Leatherman | Published: May 7, 2008
Everyone has a library. Everyone has their own utility classes and functions they're using in their own personal and contracted projects. And now that everyone has a blog too, they're all releasing their libraries as open source, using the commando underoo philosophy of wild, free, and unrestricted naming schemes for their code. Not anymore. Let's surnamespace.
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PHP Pretty Date

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 10, 2008
This class is pretty much a direct port of John Resig’s JavaScript Pretty Date to PHP 5. A few notes: Requires PHP >= 5.10, due to the usage of PHP’s new DateTimeclass. The new DateTime object parses strings using PHP’s strtotime, so you don’t need to pass in an ISO8601 formatted date, as in JavaScript [...]
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Nursery Rhyme Code Poem [PHP]

By Zach Leatherman | Published: October 26, 2007
< ?php class I { public __construct() { $star = new Star(); $star->size = 'little'; $star->twinkle(); $star->twinkle();   self::wonder($star, 'What are you?');   $world = new World(); $world->elevation = 'So High'; $star->setAbove($world);   $d = new Diamond(); $d->position = 'In the sky'; $star->setLike($d);   $star->twinkle(); $star->twinkle(); $star->size; // returns 'little'   self::wonder($star, 'What are you?'); [...]
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Using Phing to automate JavaScript and CSS Minimization

By Zach Leatherman | Published: August 11, 2007
This article may be too advanced for beginner programmers. Unfortunately, I will not support any code that I do not write (in this case), so if you have troubles installing some of the packages required below, please see the authors of the problem code. Thank you. PHING! Party on Wayne. Party on Garth! If you’ve [...]
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