PHP PHPLIB / Standard Library

You have a web site with pages accessing a database. You want to use PHPLIB, but do not want to change your existing database to suit. Here is the answer to your dreams. PHPLIB and multiple databases. This set up requires an extension to PHPLIB and explains how to create the extension. You may find this article helps you extend PHPLIB in other ways. Read this article to the end and then think about situations where PHPLIB performs 98% of what yo...

Hopefully, you ve read Mr David Orr s introduction to working with PHPLIB templates. If you haven t, I recommend that you do so.

Let s face it, web pages aren t designed for interaction with users. At one time or another, you ve probably found yourself needing to know what user you are dealing with, and some information about that user. But how do you do it on the web? There are many ways, but most of them are either error prone, or serious security risks. Passing around form data from page to page can easily be sniffed, and even more easily forged. What is a webmaster to...

If you re wondering what templates are, first go read the first few paragraphs of Sascha Schumann s excellent article Templates - why and how to use them in PHP3. In general, templates let you completely separate your PHP code from the HTML, which makes the HTML graphic designers very happy and keeps them from messing up your precious programming. It s Not FastTemplates So, do we really need another article on PHPBuilder about using templates? W...

While most of the excitement surrounding the release of PHP 5 focused on its XML and object-oriented features, the Standard PHP Library (SPL) also saw some significant improvements that went mostly unnoticed. In the first of two articles covering the SPL, David Fells discusses the Exception class, which lets programs handle errors more gracefully and simplifies debugging.

In our second article on the standard PHP library, David Fells explains the new Arrray object, introduces Iterators and the ArrayIterator, and discusses some practical examples of their usage. This article assumes a knowledge of how Exceptions work in PHP 5.