Implicit Evaluation with PHP Archives: OOP
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4 May 2007
Benchmarking PHP Threads
All threads can now both hear and report on conditions. A problem with the original send/recieve mechanism made threads hang the controlling thread while long operations were occurring.
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3 May 2007
Communicating with threads in PHP
Earlier this week, I suggested PHP could be multithreaded. The sample I provided was very simple and at least one reader quickly wondered how to communicate with threads.
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1 May 2007
Multi-threading strategies in PHP
PHP does not have threading anywhere in its massive core. We can, however, fake it by relying on the underlying operating system instead of PHP. This article will show you how.
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8 February 2007
Managing Variable Scopes While Using Templates
PHP’s rules for variable’s scopes can make coding complex templates difficult. Today, I’ll show you several methods to make it easier.
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24 October 2006
Session Management in PHP
Session management is one of the features that sets PHP apart from other languages which happen to be used on the web. It is easy enough to understand how to use $_SESSION, but many programmers seem to learn how to use it and nothing more.
$_SESSION serves a single, useful purpose. It makes variables available across […]
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14 September 2006
Objects and Arrays in PHP
In PHP, Objects and Arrays are very similar. Objects can easily be cast as an array with get_object_vars, and a simple foreach loop can easily construct an stdObject from an array. Their similarities mean there is little you can do with one that you cannot do with the other. Some of the differences (at first […]
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15 June 2006
Differences between PHP4 and 5’s Object Model
Listen to any OOP-fanatic for more than 5-minutes talk about the difference between PHP4 and 5 and you’ll hear them carry on about the vast improvements to PHP’s object model. But what are those changes, exactly? There are only three I’ve ever heard promoted: destructors, tostring(), and objects getting passed by reference by default.
There […]
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12 April 2006
On Object Oriented Programming
There are three ways to program: functionally, procedurally, or object-oriented-aly. Any Turing-complete language will effectively let you use any of those types for development. Stereotypically, though, Scheme is a functional language, C is a procedural language, and Java is an object-oriented language.
For my own real-world use, I tend to use a hybrid procedural/OOP style. […]