Over time, the PHP DateTime object has become one of the best objects available to PHP developers. This object has grown since early PHP 5 into a robust class that has the ability to do lots of great things.
Recently, I was exploring some of the functionality provided by the DateTime object as of PHP 5.3 [...]

As Benjamin Franklin once famously said, “the only two things that are certain in life are death and taxes.” His point, while political, has a good perspective on one of life’s ever-persistent truths: the fact that governments exist in every country, and, largely, they have some of the same benefits and drawbacks everywhere.
However, the ubiquity [...]

In the last two entries we have talked about the concept of layer abstraction: that is, that exceptions should not be allowed to pass out of one layer and into another. So, when an exception is raised in the database layer it should be caught in the controller. But how do we go about making [...]

On Monday, we talked about the basics of exceptions and how they are used in PHP (as well as in other object-oriented programming languages). As promised, today we are going to talk about extending the base exception class in PHP.
One of the things that you can (and should) do with PHP exceptions is extend them [...]

A great feature of PHP is the ability to throw and catch exceptions. This feature was introduced in PHP 5, and has been around for years in other languages like Python.
Exceptions make it easy to interrupt program flow in the event that something goes wrong. They allow you to customize how a program handles errors, [...]