Archive for the ‘MySQL’ Category

B2B: Testing and defining variables in PHP

Posted by michael on January 23rd, 2007 under Code, MySQL
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PHP is a dynamic, weakly-typed language, and as such, beginners to the language will often find their code acting unpredictably because of assumptions they have made.
PHP has a fairly low entry point for new programmers - it’s easy enough to get a couple of small sample scripts up and running, but on the same token, [...]

Back to Basics prologue

Posted by michael on January 15th, 2007 under Code, Javascript, MySQL
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Next week will see the launch of the Back to Basics project - for five consecutive days, starting on Monday, a different and new article will be posted covering a topic that the Web Expose team believe is important for beginner developers to grasp and understand. This project aims to improve the base skills of [...]

SimpleXML Oddities (PHP 5)

Posted by james on January 12th, 2007 under MySQL
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I was in charge of moving some domains from one server to another this week - and one of the sites pulled most of it’s data from a XML data feed, via SimpleXML. After syncing the entire site across to the new server, I was a bit worried to find that it had stopped functioning.
It [...]