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Filed under Programming, PHP

When you start creating advanced applications that require different types of data that may be defined by a developer using your system you come across a very interesting issue.

Dynamic Variables...

They are quite easy to master, just look at the below example.

CODE:
  1. $foo = 'howdy';
  2. $$foo = 'not howdy';
  3.  
  4. echo $$foo; //should return not howdy

Learn more by going here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php

Comments (0) Posted by sp on Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Filed under Make you smile

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0dIpYw75jA&feature=user

Comments (0) Posted by sp on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Filed under Programming, PHP

http://www.phpdoc.org/

Easy, Fast, and Efficient.

Just make sure your code is developed within a standard and you comment very well.

Comments (0) Posted by sp on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Filed under Programming, Javascript

In some situations we are required to take a value that was intended to be a string and convert it to a numerical value for calculations.

In this situation we would implement a form of variable control called "Casting".

CODE:
  1. //String
  2. var string = "5.00";
  3.  
  4. //What would happen if we wanted to add another 5.00 to string?
  5. //Well, it would append the 5.00 to the original 5.00 - Example: 5.005.00
  6. //We need to Cast "string" so that we can do numerical calculations.
  7. var numeric = parseFloat(string)+5.00;
  8. //You can use
  9. //parseFloat - number with a decimal point.
  10. //parseInt - whole number.

Simple and effective.

Comments (0) Posted by sp on Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Filed under Programming, PHP

How do you show errors for a single php script when the entire server has the enviorment variable "display_errors" set to 0?

Simple - place the below code at the top of your script.

CODE:
  1. ini_set("display_errors", 1);
  2. error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set - allows you to mess with your php.ini file.
error_reporting - sets what kind of errors you wish to show.

Comments (0) Posted by sp on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008