redemption in a blog

Yup I just upgraded from PHP4.3.8 to PHP5.0.1 on the Gentoo VPS hosting this weblog. It went rather smoothly, except for an oversight where I actually forgot to compile PHP with session support (and had to re-compile it). Just unmerge the existing PHP and mod_php packages, and emerge them again from ebuilds. emerge unmerge php [...]

Coding Object Oriented PHP sure has its perks, one of which is the mildly amusing error message I chanced upon below (in an implementation session that turned out to be a major debugging frenzy). A quick search reveals the cryptic error error message to mean ‘a pair of colons’ in Hebrew. You get that when [...]

The PHP Anthology arrived in the mail today. Shipped by USPS, I wasn’t too impressed with their delivery when it came in a flimsy paper package and was subsequently stuffed into my tiny mailbox. The result – two noticeably squashed up books with dented splines and dog-eared corners. Anyway, acrimony aside, the PHP Anthology is [...]

Harry Fuecks has written a very good article on PHP5 at SitePoint entitled ‘PHP5: Coming Soon to a Webserver Near You‘. It is a long article, but peppered with code examples illustrating the features of PHP5.

Well so it seems PHP5 has finally become usable enough to be released as a public beta (PHP.net). It is interesting in the way that it is interesting to see an initally non-OO language have OO features pegged on – remember Perl? The biggie here is the new object model which has been really all [...]