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Via PHPdeveloper.org, I’ve been following Brandon Savage’s blog for a few months. Most recently, he’s posted a pair of excellent articles on productive and useless micro-optimizations. These are code “enhancements” such as “change all print() statements to echo statements because echo is faster”. Brandon takes a look at several popular micro-enhancements and offers his professional [...]
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Fabien Potencier: PHP does need a template engine
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Fabien Potencier’s latest blog post is yet another entry in the popular debate in the PHP community over templating. Recently, conventional wisdom has swung back to the use of PHP itself for templating, rather than one of the popular but resource intensive template engines like Smarty.
I discussed this myself here. At the time [...]
Basic AJAX with PHP and jQuery
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I gave a live tutorial/demo at work today for room full of folks. I’ve posted the source code and powerpoint below. The title is pretty self explanatory…just a very simple demonstration of AJAX techniques using jQuery JavaScript and PHP on the server side in a very crude Twitter-like mini-posting app.
Basic AJAX with PHP [...]
