Category Archives: Php Freaks

As one of the building blocks of the Standard PHP Library (SPL), the ArrayObject class is a traversable, countable structure, which allows you to treat objects as arrays. This functionality seems irrelevant at first sight, but the class may be a real time-saver in certain situations. That’s especially true when...

File Ownership and Permissions These days, security is paramount to any server installation, large or small. Most modern operating systems have embraced the concept of the separation of file rights via a user/group ownership paradigm, which, when properly configured, offers a wonderfully convenient and powerful means for securing data. In...

Reading from a File PHP offers numerous methods for reading data from a file, ranging from reading in just one character at a time to reading in the entire file with a single operation. Many of the most useful functions are introduced in this section. file() array file (string filename...

Writing to a File This section highlights several of the functions used to output data to a file. fwrite() int fwrite (resource handle, string string [, int length]) The fwrite() function outputs the contents of string to the resource pointed to by handle. If the optional length parameter is provided,...

Nice article on solving a common problem I see with website drowdown menus, authored by one of phpfreaks great moderators....

He beat out a host of other high school and college competitors from across Canada to complete a “facebook” clone and take 1st place in the 2 day competition. He’ll be representing his country at the World Skills competition next, so stop off and congratulate him and wish him luck...

“Email clients over the past few years really haven’t kept up with the pace of today’s developers. When developing emails, it feels like you’ve stepped back into the late 90′s, writing out-dated code. Below are some tips & tricks I’ve found helpful over the past few years of developing emails….”...

If you read my recent tutorial on the use of the excellent XDebug profiler, you may be aware of what a truly a great FOSS PHP extension it is, used by countless developers over the years. Unfortunately the cachegrind format is not quite right, because when XDebug was developed Derick...

This tutorial takes you through the steps of setting up Ubuntu Linux and getting Apache, MySQL and PHP installed and running....