Category Archives: PHP

It’s Not True that PHP Arrays are Copied by Value

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Stoimen

PHP, Arrays & Passing by Reference Do you know that objects in PHP5 are passed by reference, while arrays and other scalar variables are passed by value? Yes, you know it, but it’s not exactly true. Let’s see some example … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP, zend framework | Tagged Array slicing, C, C programming language, Comparison of programming languages, J, PHP | 3 Comments

PHP and MySQL Natural Sort

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Stoimen

Use Case Let’s say we have an array of data represented by some text followed by a number. Just like the movies from a movie series like “Mission Impossible” or “Pirates of the Carribean”. We know that they are often … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP | Tagged alphabetical order, Entertainment/Culture, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible 2, Mission: Impossible 3, MySQL AB, natural sort order, Order by, PHP, Pirates of the Carribean, Sorting, Sorting algorithms | 1 Comment

PHP Strings Don’t Need Quotes

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Stoimen

I bet you didn’t know that PHP strings don’t need quotes! Indeed PHP developers work with strings with either single or double quotes, but actually in some cases you don’t need them. PHP by Book Here’s how PHP developer declare … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP | Tagged C, Computer programming, Computing, Cross-platform software, Curly bracket programming languages, PHP, PHP interpreter, PHP programming language, Procedural programming languages, Programming language, Scripting languages, Social Issues, Software engineering, String | 13 Comments

Computer Algorithms: Insertion Sort

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Stoimen

Overview Sorted data can dramatically change the speed of our program, therefore sorting algorithms are something quite special in computer science. For instance searching in a sorted list is faster than searching in an unordered list. There are two main … Continue reading →

Posted in algorithms, PHP | Tagged Algorithm, Application This algorithm, binary search, Insertion sort, Linear search, Merge sort, PHP, player, Quicksort, Selection sort, sequential search, Sort, Sorting algorithms, Strand sort, Technology/Internet, therefore sorting algorithms, typical algorithm | 1 Comment

How to Dump the Generated Zend_Db SQL Query

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Stoimen

The Typical PHP Approach Typically a PHP programmer will write his SQL query as a string and will execute it via mysql_query. $sql = "SELECT * FROM my_table"; $resource = mysql_query($sql); So eventually when you want to dump this “complex” … Continue reading →

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