For those who don’t know @ is error control operator. Taken from PHP documentation “When prepended to an expression in PHP, any error messages that might be generated by that expression will be ignored”. In other words error message won’t be printed out. There are some situations when @ sign might be helpful e.g. include() [...]
Source code re-usability is one of the most important things if you plan to keep developing applications for longer. All Internet applications have set of functionalities that are common. These are for example, User management, permissions management, CMS functionality, forums, categories, menus, profiles etc. Therefore you don’t have to write a lot of code from [...]
Nice search engine optimized links may look something like this http://www.mydomain.com/products/home-garden/Patio-Glass-Coffee-Table.html To create e.g. online shop with such formatted real pages would be crazy. Althoug it would be possibly doable to autogenerate cache pages as real files, this is not how these links are being done. To create dynamic pages with such structure you use [...]
On large busy projects where server resources do matter it is good idea to reuse object which is used several times during script execution in different scopes. There are more options. One is to use global keyword on top of each function where object is needed but you must make always sure object really exist [...]
If we look to the history of scripting preprocessors such as PHP used to develop Internet applications we can see that from very beginning they were plain procedural languages. Over the time object oriented functionality was introduced and nowadays the object oriented support is pretty good. So what makes it interesting? Why the object programming [...]
