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Handling large files with(out) PHP
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in PHPAs one man was quoted "640K of memory should be enough for anybody" no one will need to access more than 2 GB data. What happens if you – just for scientific reasons of course – try to access larger files using your 32bit hardware and your favorite programming language PHP? For a first test…
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Zend Studio goes Eclipse
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in PHPAfter Zend announced to enter the Eclipse Foundation one expected Zend to give up their own Zend Studio and integrate it with the Eclipse Framework. A small update in a recent blog posting from Sebastian gives a few details about Zend’s plans. According to this proposal Zend is working, together with IBM, on an Eclipse-based…
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Meet me at php|tek
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in PHPphp|tek, the next conference from the php|arch guys around Marco Tabini who already organized the php|cruise and php|tropics conferences, will be from April 26th to 28th at Orlando, Florida. As you can read on the recently published schedule I’ll hold two talks. The first talk will be about PHP on the command line, showing PHP’s…
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The truth about Rasmus the Lamer
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in PHPRasmus made us think he was doing great work by developing PHP. But as you already could read in this mail a PhD(!) found out the truth about Rasmus: His stuff „is total crap“ and he isn’t „fit to write a single line of code“. That mail even includes some good advices for Rasmus, for…
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More PHP power on the command line
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in PHPIf you use PHP on the command line you most probably know the -r parameter to execute one line of code. This feature is quite nice but it’s hard to keep the quoting right. Depending on which quotes (single or double) and shell you are using you might even need to keep attention on escaping…
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Casted fun.
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in PHPIn the German channel #php.de/IRCNet people discuss every kind of stuff. Sometimes there are even discussions about PHP related topics. Today we had a discussion about having fun with casting in PHP.
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ReflectionClass::hasMethod()
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in PHPIn a recent discussion on the PHP internals list Andi asked why ReflectionClass::getMethod() throws an exception when the requested method doesn’t exist instead of returning NULL. During the discussion it came out that it brings advantages to throw an exception when doing things like $class->getMethod(‚foo‘)->isInternal(); or if you really like exceptions. In addition it brings…
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Is this negative? (or need for speed #2)
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in PHPAs Pierre wrote before sometimes you need functions you usually would say "no, you’ll never need this, this task can be done with just one line PHP" but later you see "Okay, now I could use it". We had such a situation a few days ago: Thorsten once complained that PHP has functions for everything…