Pragmatism in today's world
The most common way to debug is to stick echo statements into your code at strategic places. If you are feeling clever, you might even output a variable's value too: echo "<p>here: $myvar = $myvar";</p> I call this runtime variable inspection and as PHP is a script language, it's a very fast way to debug a script. You stick the echo statement at strategic points and with a few page refreshes in the browser, you… continue reading.
I hacked together support for additional content blocks in CMS Made Simple over the last few days. This constitutes the first time I've hacked the main code and I'm pretty damn proud of myself! In the end the feature wasn't as difficult to write as it might have been. This is due to some rather clever design in the back end. First off, the database already separated out storage of the main text and header… continue reading.
Notes on using ADOdb's data dictionary to create and manipulate database tables independantly of the underlying database server.
DevNotes is where I intend to write about my development life. In general this means that I'll be talking about PHP coding as that's what I do most of my development in at the moment. I currently work for Campbell Shaw and also do a little bit of freelance work for my old company to help them out maintaining code that I wrote for them. In my spare time, I am (slowly!) writing some plugins… continue reading.
