Nick Halstead's Blog: Programming Tips Series
Nick Halsted has posted the first two in a series of programming tips, not necessarily specific to PHP, but still very useful. Over the years I have built up what I call my 'programming wisdom' this...
View ArticleDeveloper Tutorials Blog: Zend Framework: The Best Framework for Use With...
The Developer Tutorials blog has an interesting perspective on the whole framework front today - use whatever framework you choose, but be sure to "add a little Zend" when you need it. The Zend...
View ArticleMaarten Balliauw's Blog: Reuse Excel business logic with PHPExcel
Maarten Balliauw has made a new blog post today about a method he's using to help reuse some of the business logic that Excel spreadsheets can have in a PHP script with help from PHPExcel. In many...
View ArticleMutant PHP Blog: Specifications for PHP5
In a recent entry to his blog Sean shows off a new specifications library he's created to replace common comparison functionality with a series of specs. I thought I'd share a PHP library implementing...
View ArticleBrandon Savage's Blog: Keeping Superglobals Out Of Classes
In a new post to his blog, Brandon Savage makes a suggestion that could help in maintenance and debugging down the road - keep those superglobals out of your classes. Let's ignore the security...
View ArticleJani Hartikainen's Blog: Reusable "generic" actions in Zend Framework
In this recent blog entry Jani Hartikainen looks at the creation of generic actions for Zend Framework applications - methods that can be used to help eliminate code duplication: Sometimes you will...
View ArticleSebastian Bergmann's Blog: PHPUnit 3.4.0 (Release)
Sebastian Bergmann has announced the release of the latest version of the popular PHP unit testing software - PHPUnit. Among the features introduced in this new version, the most notable are the...
View ArticleLukas Smith's Blog: Horizontal Reuse aka Traits Reloaded
In a quick post to his blog Lukas Smith talks about the proposal for traits support that's been pending for PHP for a while now. Recent updates have been made to it, so it's come back up to the front...
View ArticleMatthew Weier O'Phinney's Blog: Using Action Helpers To Implement Re-Usable...
Matthew Weier O'Phinney has a new post to his blog today showing you how to use action helpers to make widgets that you can reuse all over your Zend Framework application. His method doesn't use the...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Reusing Implementation - a Walk-through of Inheritance,...
On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial posted that wants to provide a guide to walk you through a trio of ideas to help with code/idea reuse in your applications - inheritance, composition and...
View ArticleUsing Traits for Code Reuse in Zend Framework 2
For those that might have heard of traits (made available in newer versions of PHP, 5.4+) but haven't seen much of a practical application, this new post from Matthew Setter could help. Here's the...
View ArticleQaFoo.com: Code Reuse By Inheritance
On the Qafoo blog today Kore Nordmann has a new post talking about code reuse through inheritance. He talks about base classes, sharing code and abstraction. To me, inheritance has two properties:...
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