A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that PHP 5.2 would have support for tracking the progress of file uploads. However, when I went looking for signs of this new functionality I came away empty-handed and rather confused. It’s definitely there in the release notes, but I just couldn’t find any reference to it anywhere [...]
Well it’s out (download here). Interesting additions include new Filter, JSON and ZIP extensions, and the previously-mentioned upload progress handling functions (although I can’t seem to find any documentation the the latter). There’s a new error mode — E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR — which allows user-defined error reporting to catch only those errors from which the system can [...]
If you’ve been paying attention to the PHP scene then you should be aware that the next significant revision — version 5.2 — is imminent. Or at least, it should be. Of course this is PHP so no new release can be made without at least a bit of drama. It seems that this time [...]
Here’s another one of those really obscure things that will probably not be important to anyone at all, ever. Anyway, it took me a while to work it out so I’m going to record it here for future reference. The problem: using XSLT, I wanted to pass a node-tree as a parameter to a template [...]
PHP_CodeSniffer is a nice tool that allows you to define a set of standards for your code, and then detect where those standards aren’t being adhered to. Great for multi-developer projects.