Here’s a handy little function. This comes in handy in many different situations, especially in regards to parsing database results. Here’s a typical way to parse through a MySQL result set: (more…)

The whole point of an IDE is to help you develop faster and with fewer errors. Eclipse PDT has many features that can help accomplish this, but if you don’t know what those features are and don’t use them, then you might as well just use notepad. Here are a few shortcuts that I’ve found very helpful: (more…)

     “Ok, so I have a great text editor. Why do I need an IDE?”   A very common question especially among PHP developers. There are many different text editors that do a really good job when you need a basic text editor and maybe a little syntax highlighting. But what does a full fledged IDE typically offer that a text editor does not? (more…)