For the last couple of weeks I’ve have been working with Propel ORM for PHP and have really enjoyed using it. Coming from Perl I’m spoiled because it has DBIx::Class which is my ORM by choice and makes fetching data from your SQL database including relational data a breeze. Propel does a really nice job with this […]
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Since a few days a certain operation in the webshop software we’ve written at work was extremely slow. Adding a product to the basket took forever, like 2 minutes. When adding a product to the basket it checks if there are any related products that should be added to the shopping basket as well. This is
PHP’s switch-statement bit me in the ass Read More »
About 2,5 years ago at work we were still using PHP for new applications. With PHP being the language of choice I was looking at what MVC frameworks were available. At the time only Zend Framework (which was at version 1.5) seemed to be the only PHP5 framework. Aside from that it was a mature
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Yesterday PHP 5.2.14 has been released, together with PHP 5.3.3. I used to get excited about PHP updates, but no more. This is because of a number of disappointments I’ve talked about earlier. But that’s not really the reason of why not to get excited. So, why shouldn’t we be excited about PHP 5.2.14? The
PHP 5.2.14 released but don’t get excited yet Read More »
For over 3,5 years now I’ve been programming professionally in PHP. First in PHP4 and about half a year later we finally converted to PHP5. At first I was excited because I could use a lot of new features PHP5 offered such as proper OOP but also Zend Framework. I started using Zend Framework from
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