Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

Using Bitmasks in a Groups Permission System

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

As promised in my previous post, this article will describe a practical application of bitmasks, in this particular case for usage in a permission system on a webapplication. This particular application is a social network site, in which a user can create a joinable group. Each group has four usergroups ...

Zend Framework

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

There are numerous web application frameworks written in and for PHP on the market nowadays, most of them free and/or open source, most of them following or supporting the MVC paradigm. This summer, I'm going to go and attempt to make a website using one of the newer frameworks out ...

Applied design patterns: Database abstraction (part 2)

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In some of my previous posts, I've pretty much ranted about the poor design qualities of some people that enjoy calling themselves PHP programmers. In these two posts however, I'd like to show you what good and proper design is. The topic is the same as that in my previous ...

Applied design patterns: Database abstraction (part 1)

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In some of my previous posts, I've pretty much ranted about the poor design qualities of some people that enjoy calling themselves PHP programmers. In these two posts however, I'd like to show you what good and proper design is. The topic is the same as that in my previous ...

Apparent user-content filtering in PHP

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

The following fellow is a tard. http://www.soaptray.com/2008/04/filtering-user-input-in-php/ How I start to loathe StumbleUpon and, worse, the people that promote their own blogpost thinking they've actually produced something awesome. I'm not going to go into it anymore, instead I'll copypasta the comment I posted on there: I have some critical comments @ your code. ...

“PHP Database Classes” - Follow-Up

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

In my previous post, I did an epic rant on so-called PHP Database classes. In the follow-up, I'm going to do a Google search for "PHP Database class" and see what comes up. Read on for the full story.

“PHP Database classes” make my eyes bleed.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Through the maze of duplicate entries I encountered yesterday through StumbleUpon, I came across this page, which reads: A class for very basic MySQL database connectivity. Written to reduce redundant code in my own projects aswell as aid in debugging and error reporting during the developement phase. Ok, fair 'nuff, probably nothing ...