Every once in a while I discover a really cool, really underutilized component in PHP and I just have to write about it. I recently discovered (through my use of Zend Framework) the implementation of the ArrayObject class.

Last Friday, I did a webcast as a part of the PHP TEK Webcast series. The webcast was on Caching for WordPress. We had a good turnout, and there were lots of questions about the best plugins to use for WordPress caching.

Until last week, I had never experienced what must have been incredibly frustrating to most developers: the fact that the self keyword in PHP refers to the class it is located in, and not necessarily a class that extends it. I personally ran into this problem when trying to extend Zend_Auth. Being a singleton, the [...]

Last July, I wrote about the registry pattern and some of its advantages. These advantages include the ability to access objects across different areas of your application, and the storage of objects for later retrieval.

Recently, I began working alongside Wez Furlong here at Message Systems. One of the many tools we use is Mtrack. This tool is a port of Trac into PHP, along with the addition of some great new features. Spearheaded by Wez, it’s a great tool that we use internally for our projects, and since it’s [...]