Inconsistency Underscores Some functions use underscores between words, while others do not: gettype vs. get_class Order of Arguments Sorting This doesn’t work. If you don’t know why, you should take a look at sort. PHP Logo Add ‘?=PHPE9568F34-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42′ to any PHP script and take a look at the output. For example at Wikipedia. Argument order [...]
Sometimes you need to know compare PHP dates. You need to know what is later or if both dates are the same. PHP time formats and functions PHP knows these time / date formats: UNIX Timestamp: Integer – The number of seconds after 1970. Related functions are int mktime([ int $hour = date("H") [, int [...]
PEAR is short for PHP Extension and Application Repository. It provides a very easy method to get some common classes. PEAR MDB2 is a database class. It is a successor of PEAR DB. I took a look at version 1.4.1 which is currently the latest stable one. Install PEAR You can install PEAR on Ubuntu [...]
I used ApacheBenchmark (ab) to make a few Benchmark tests I was interested in. If you like to view some more, go to www.phpbench.com. The most important options are: -n: Number of requests to perform -c: Number of multiple requests to make An empty file: Now I make 1000 requests to this empty file: Time [...]
