There are some genuinely good things about PHP, the greatest of which, in my humble opinion, is the ability to just dump a script on a web server and run it on request. It's eminently practical and I missed it, but there is no way I will part from my fiercely appreciated Nim programming language any more.
PHP 5.4 is so nifty. And traits are mad cool.
And now for something completely different: A piece of information that seems to get taught at universities that not only has plenty of practical use in everyday web development, it is also surprisingly easy to understand. Here goes.
Looks like Doctrine 1.2 (in Symfony 1.4) doesn’t like loading blobs in fixtures. You can base64_encode them, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a blob, now does it!
Today, I made an arduous discovery: Doctrine 1.2, the Object-Relational mapper used with symfony 1.4, has a HYDRATE_ON_DEMAND fetch mode. This allows doctrine to function just like pdo does: You do a query, loop over it, and the data doesn’t consume memory until it gets fetched. (And can be freed before the next pass)
Emails are tricky. There’s so many legacy systems to keep track of.
Creating a page in HTML and CSS is a lot like baking a cake.