It has been a while since I have posted here, mainly due to the time consuming period that is the festive season and also because I am discovering that I am getting fairly annoyed by Drupal as a blog tool and am trying out the new WordPress as an alternative. For now I have a… Continue reading Life of a developer
Last day of the month
Here’s one line of code to get the last day of a month: $last_day = date(‘t’, mktime(0, 0, 1, $month_variable, 1, $year_variable)); How much more difficult do you want it to be ???
Delving deeper into the PHP lake…testing if a variable exists in a list
As a PHP developer of almost four years now, I often still come across little problems in coding that make me do the good ol Google search to find the answer. (someday I will have memorised the entire PHP manual, but today is not that day ;-). Anyway today I was asked about how to… Continue reading Delving deeper into the PHP lake…testing if a variable exists in a list
Simple PHP increment function
Whenever I have to output a numbered list of data I usually run the following code to achieve the required result. $counter = 0; // for loop that does all the required code $counter++; // end for but I have discovered a lovely little function that does all this for me. function increment(&$counter){ $counter++; return… Continue reading Simple PHP increment function
My first published article.
Something of a first for me. I recently started playing around with the CakePHP framework again. I have had some (little) experience with it in the past and with the launch of two CakePHP books I decided it was high time I learned how to use this awesome framework properly. A few days later I… Continue reading My first published article.