Posted in JavaScript/jQuery, PHP, Rants on Dec 18th, 2007
I’ll try to keep this short. Having been coding for years I’ve seen a lot of examples of how other people write code. Now while there are certain requirements in coding, there are areas where you can inject your own person style or preference. One area that has always bugged me is how code is [...]
Posted in PHP on Sep 18th, 2007
I wanted to make a small addition to the pagination class talked about at http://www.catchmyfame.com/2007/07/28/finally-the-simple-pagination-class/. I added another example which uses a basic form at http://www.catchmyfame.com/paginator/example-form.php. This is very similar to the first example (http://www.catchmyfame.com/paginator/example.php) where the query is hard coded. This new example is meant to show how the pagination class can be used [...]
Posted in PHP on Jul 28th, 2007
In the years that I’ve been a web developer, I have written very few OOP PHP scripts. I just haven’t had the need to, and to be honest the whole OOP concept seemed like something I didn’t need to bother with. Why do I need to write a script in an object-oriented style and how [...]
Posted in PHP on Jun 12th, 2007
PHP, like most programming or scripting language allows for comparison operations bu using if/else. It’s a staple of any good language yet at the same time you can end up writing a lot of code in order to accomplish something very simple. Take for example this simple comparison: if (empty($_POST['action'])) { $action = ‘default’; } [...]