Category Archives: Developing

Using Assertions with (Legacy) PHP Code

Posted on 4 Sep 2017 by hakre

While it was not much advised to use assertions (the assert PHP language construct) prior to PHP 7 due to the fact that it actually eval’ed a string’ed code, these days are gone. This is probably a lesser known fact with … Continue reading →

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The SimpleXMLElement Magic Wonder World in PHP

Posted on 27 Mar 2015 by hakre

PHP’s Simplexml ships with a lot of magic to simplify access to an XML documents element and attribute node values. Some criticize this and suggest to use the DOM library instead. The DOM library on the other hand, even it … Continue reading →

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Hide Folders in PhpStorm Project Pane

Posted on 6 Feb 2015 by hakre

How can I hide a directory in a PHPStorm project, for example .sass-cache I just asked myself this morning. Searching online didn’t reveal it to me and there are numerious options that were close but not about hiding the directory … Continue reading →

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Commandline Source Fixes Foo

Posted on 20 Jun 2014 by hakre

From time to time I need to cleanup source trees. Today I needed to do that again, here are some command liners to get some work done. If you’re on Windows, all you need to do to get these running … Continue reading →

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Composer Clear Cache

Posted on 27 May 2014 by hakre

It’s one of the best kept secrets of popular PHP dependency manager Composer: How to flush composers cache. You normally don’t need it, however if you create some composer.json and you want to put it to a test, this can … Continue reading →

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part III and End

Posted on 10 Jul 2013 by hakre

The previous two parts (Part I; Part II) did outline PHP’s standard behaviour when JSON encoding a SimpleXMLElement with json_encode(). As outlined this does not always fits the encoding needs and for some potential problems some workarounds have been showed. … Continue reading →

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part II

Posted on 9 Jul 2013 by hakre

In the previous post (Part I) I was giving a little overview for common woes turning a SimpleXMLElement into JSON when XML structural information is available that JSON is not capable to encode easily. The explanations given there were intended … Continue reading →

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part I

Posted on 9 Jul 2013 by hakre

With SimpleXMLElement it is often easy and looks like a very quick way to turn some XML into JSON. But not everything in PHP that has an easy interface works out of the box. In this three part series I’ll … Continue reading →

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PHP: XPath on HTML and XHTML

Posted on 21 Jun 2013 by hakre

Christan Weiske has published a nice summarizing article with the same title. It contains some detailed information I haven’t found so far on the web so worth the link: PHP: XPath on HTML and XHTML. It also reminds me of … Continue reading →

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The Greatest PHP Value

Posted on 6 Apr 2013 by hakre

Just two days ago I asked a PHP-quiz-question in the chatroom on Stackoverflow, something along the lines: PHP: Which one is greatest? PHP has a comparison operator to compare if one value is greater than the other (>). Which one … Continue reading →

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Getting N Random Elements out of an Iterator – RandomIterator

Posted on 8 Jan 2013 by hakre

Considering there is an Iterator or Traversable with an unknown number of elements, I wondered if it is possible to get one or more random iterations out of it.

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Getting the Vagrant in the Box (Fedora 17)

Posted on 8 Nov 2012 by hakre

This post is about installing a useful development tool to play with systems and configurations in a virtualized environment on your fingertips. Want to test your WordPress with a completely differnt web- and database server? Maybe running a proxy in … Continue reading →

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Using the SPDX License List for Tagging and Linking

Posted on 25 Jul 2012 by hakre

The Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX™) specification is a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with a software package. Their website has a lot of detailed information about the specs, format and tools itself. But in … Continue reading →

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jQuery afterText Plugin

Posted on 21 Jun 2012 by hakre

jQuery has a hard time dealing with text after something you’ve selected. But now it’s easy thanks to the jQuery afterText Plugin. Just change the text after something with the afterText() function: The difference to after(text) is that afterText(text) replaces … Continue reading →

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EllisLab: Copyright not by work but per File

Posted on 1 May 2012 by hakre

In their run for re-licensing the CodeIgniter codebase under OSL (which in itself looks violating the shared authorship copyright as a whole as it has not yet been clarified with all authors and copyright holders in concrete), in a blog … Continue reading →

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Introducing: PasswordLib

Posted on 14 Apr 2012 by hakre

Ircmaxell is Introducing PasswordLib, a PHP library for password hashing. It’s a spin-off from CryptLib which didn’t finish so far. Github; Packagist. MIT License.

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Iterating over Multiple Iterators at Once

Posted on 5 Apr 2012 by hakre

PHP’s SPL has two build-in Iterators that deal with multiple iterators at once: AppendIterator and MultipleIterator. In this posting I’ll cover both a bit: AppendIterator will put one iterator after the other so it get’s like a long queue or … Continue reading →

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CSS Selector to XPath conversion

Posted on 18 Mar 2012 by hakre

While playing with a parser experiment that fully supports the CSS selectors syntax and the discovery of the Selectors API I started to think about the transformation from CSS selectors to XPath. Sure I’m not the only one, so I … Continue reading →

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Some PHP Iterator Fun

Posted on 28 Feb 2012 by hakre

I must have had too much free time. Over at Stackoverflow some kind of PHP question pops up from time to time about how to distribute a sequence of data in form of a table or in columns. You already … Continue reading →

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Architecture the Lost Years (Robert Cecil Martin; 4 Nov 2011)

Posted on 9 Jan 2012 by hakre

Did worldwide Hypertext turned software developers out in the field upside-down? In Architecture the Lost Years (1h 06m) Robert C. Martin talks about the web and how it influenced development design decisions in the last decade(s). Is the system the … Continue reading →

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