Nikita Popov's Blog: Understanding PHP's internal array implementation (Part 4)
Nikita Popov has posted the fourth part of the "PHP's Source Code for PHP Developers" series he and Anthony Ferrara have been posting. In this latest article in the series, Nikita looks specifically...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Using SPL Iterators, Part 1
On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial posted, the first part of a series, looking at the use of the Standard PHP Library (SPL) in PHP. In this first part of the series, Stefan Froelich looks...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Using SPL Iterators, Part 2
On PHPMaster.com today they've posted the second part of the series covering the Iterators that come with PHP as a part of the SPL. In part one of this series I introduced you to some of the SPL...
View ArticleThomas Weinart: What Iterators Can Do For You
Thomas Weinert has a new post to his site showing some of the things that iterators can do for you (including working with arrays and aggregation). Basically Iterators provide a list interface for an...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Spooky Scary PHP
In the spirit of Halloween coming next week PHPMaster.com has posted some spooky scary PHP code in their latest post from the editor of the site, Timothy Boronczyk. Break out the candy corn and apple...
View ArticleMaltBlue.com: Painless Data Traversal with PHP FilterIterators
On the MaltBlue blog Matt Setter has a new post introducing you to using FilterIterators for data traversal: There's load of ways to traverse data, especially in PHP where there are a variety of loops...
View ArticleSherif Ramadan: A Closer Look Into PHP Arrays: What You Don't See
In a new post Sherif Ramadan takes an in-depth look at PHP arrays and what happens behind the scenes when they're put to use. PHP is one unique language where the array data type has been highly...
View ArticleSetfive.com: PHP: Some thoughts on using array_* with closures
On the Setfive site there's a recent post from Ashish Datta about some thoughts around array functions and closures for callback methods. The other day, I was hacking away on the PHP backend for the...
View ArticleBen Ramsey: Introducing Array_column() in PHP 5.5
Ben Ramsey has a new post talking about a feature that will become available in the PHP 5.5.x release series of the language - the array_column function. This function will extract all values from an...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Array Operators in PHP: Interesting but Less Spoken
On PHPMaster.com there's a new tutorial about array operators in PHP, more so how the usual operators interact with arrays. Operators in PHP can be organized into seven different categories:...
View ArticleEric Ritz: BOTW: PHP Array Filtering (Book Review)
In a new post to his site Eric Ritz shares a book review of Sam Hennessey's "PHP Array Filtering" ebook in his "Use Case" series. This week I read "PHP Array Filtering" by Sam Hennessy. My intent was...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Collection Classes in PHP
On the SitePoint PHP blog a new tutorial introduces you to collection classes in PHP, replacing the more basic array with something with a bit more power. Applications frequently have objects that...
View ArticleProcurios Tech Blog: Autocompleting a lot of parameters
Pim Elshoff has a recent post on the Procurios tech blog looking at autocompletion on function calls and an alternative to the "too many parameters" problem. Some methods have many parameters....
View ArticleChris Hartjes: Data Providers and Arrays
Chris Hartjes, testing guru, has a post talking about using arrays in data providers for your unit tests. More specifically about some odd behavior one developer was seeing in their tests. I was asked...
View ArticleLeve.rs: Array Manipulation in PHP, the Correct Way
On the Leve.rs blog there's a recent post showing what they consider is the right way to work with arrays in PHP. It shows three things you can do to use PHP's own functionality to more correctly...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Fun with Array Interfaces
On the SitePoint PHP Blog a tutorial has been posted recently about having some fun with array interfaces via some of the functionality provided through the SPL (Standard PHP Library). As a programmer...
View ArticleNikita Popov: The case against the ifsetor function
In his latest post Nikita Popov aims to make a case against the introduction of the "ifsetor" function to be introduced into the PHP language. This function takes in a variable to find and, if found...
View ArticleMichael Dowling: Favor Hash Lookups Over Array Searches
Michael Dowling has a recent post to his site comparing the performance of hash lookups versus array searches. A common programming requirement is to match a string against a set of known strings. For...
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