A revaluation today as a Swedish national, who has traveled back in time, says he can code!

This table provides a simple ready reference to some common commands used in PostgreSQL. Ideal for those more accustomed to MySQL or other databases.

There are possibly as many menu systems available for PHP and MySQL as there are PHP programmers. Here is yet another way of generating menus from a database.

There are possibly as many menu systems available for PHP and MySQL as there are PHP programmers. Here is yet another way of generating menus from a database.

This function provides a novel method of testing if a number is prime, by using a PHP regular expression.

This is the latest update to the WEB2BB Framework and includes a simple fix for an error that failed to catch an exception. The WEB2BB framework is a fully functioning MVC style framework that utilizes the best features of PHP 5.3 and above. By making use of the latest additions to PHP, the WEB2BB framework is able to provide sleek code and optimal performance. It does not try to be all things to all people and so the codebase is kept to a minimum.

PHPRO.ORG receives many emails requesting reviews for magazines, web sites, application development tools, applications, books etc. Now and again, one of these catches the eye and deserves further inspection. Recently, a request for a product called nWire arrived which allegedly "accelerates PHP development by helping developers navigate through their code and better understand the architecture of their application". Here is a closer look at nWire.

This little helper function provides a simple method to trim the white space from the beginning and end of all the elements in an array. It uses the call to array trim, which, in turn, calls the trim() function. The iteration is handled internally and so provides maximum performance then dealing with the the problem in user code.

Programatically createing menus using php is a task many programmers will need to do over and over again in developing applications and web sites. Most PHP coders will have their own menu generation class that will take an array or an item and add it to a HTML un-ordered list or other tag and the styling is handled with CSS. This has proven to be a worthy solution to menu creation, however, PHP already has all the tools and classes built in to create a menu using DOM. It is both powerful and extensible and further eliminates for yet another class in your tree.

Today marks the release of the much awaited 5.3.0 version of PHP. The release contains many of the features that the development community have been requesting for some time, along with a plethora of bug fixes and optimizations to boost reliablity and performance.