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Adult Ühler: JSON-RPC Proxy Generation with PHP

nospam@example.com (Adult Ühler) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:28:48 +0200

I am just getting into this AJAx thing and although I didn't understand all of that presentation, it did help a few things slot into place.

PS This is the best Serendipity blog design I've seen. Nice logo too.

SasQ: My wishlist for PHP6, pt4: static initializers

nospam@example.com (SasQ) — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:00:00 +0200

Many language constructs aren't object orientated (in your sense), but are useful additions.

Yes, there's no instance, but you don't need any. It's a class's "meta-data" and "meta-methods" (relating to the whole class itself, not concrete objects). How does it lead to the ignorance of the single responsibility principle and maintenance problems?

Static data are useful to set something "globally for all objects of a clas" [e.g. reference count, current date, last used database ID etc.]. Without static data you have to repeat meta-data in every instance, which is redundant, and you have to synchronize it manually over all instances. And THAT is a maintenance problem!

SasQ: My wishlist for PHP6, pt4: static initializers

nospam@example.com (SasQ) — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:48:04 +0200

Because it's not possible if myclass::initialize() is private. And it should be private if we don't want someone from the outside of the class to call it second time, and don't want to bother him also with that function, which is private matter of the class.

Sebastian Deutsch: Traits for PHP

nospam@example.com (Sebastian Deutsch) — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:17:57 +0200

Hello,

i think Traits are an awesome feature.

I've implemented the ActiveRecord Design Pattern using Late Static Binding and Traits. Results can be read here:

http://blog.9elements.com/?p=28

Feedback would be nice.

Nic Waller: Stubbles 0.7.0 released

nospam@example.com (Nic Waller) — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:37:59 +0200

Hi Frank,
Thank you very much for the link, I appreciate it.
I understand what you mean and I have added an update to make it a bit clearer.

Kind regards / Nic

Frank Kleine: Stubbles 0.7.0 released

nospam@example.com (Frank Kleine) — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:14:04 +0200

Hi Nic,

thanks for the notice and the article, I added a link to your article in the external resources section of the XJConf start page.

Just a note, though: you wrote that a definition file is required for each language. Actually, you should require only one definition file which fits for all languages. The idea behind this is to allow different configurations based on the same definitions. (The category option definition may also be improved to allow an unlimited amount of options without changing the definition file to add another option. Let me know if you want to know more.)

Best regards,
Frank

Nic Waller: Stubbles 0.7.0 released

nospam@example.com (Nic Waller) — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:47:54 +0200

Hi,
I am not sure this is the right blog entry to comment on but I'm having problem getting in touch with the XJConf developers

Just wanted to tell you that I wrote a small article/blog entry on my blog Wohill about how I have used XJConf, which I think is really great to work with.

Read more -> http://www.wohill.com/design/160/Configure-PHP-applications-with-XJConf.html

Best regards / Nic

deltawing1@hotmail.com: Return type hints

nospam@example.com (deltawing1@hotmail.com) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:06:08 +0200

The programmer *must* return a string, even if PHP doesn't enforce it. If a programmer does not return a string he is performing a kludge. Just like Java, the purpose of __toString() is to return a string representation of the object. In your case you have Foo.

Check out the Java's API documentation and you will see how its toString() is implemented. This is PHP's copy of it.

Ollie Saunders: My wishlist for PHP6, pt6: improvements to ext/reflection

nospam@example.com (Ollie Saunders) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:57:05 +0100

This is a ridiculous limitation. I have a perfectly legimate reason for wanting to do this and I can't. Very frustrating.

Thanks for the solutions Frank but I just can't bring myself to implement one for setting - the performance hit would make it a vein activity alone.

Frank Kleine: Stubbles 0.6.0 released

nospam@example.com (Frank Kleine) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:08:50 +0100

Hmpf, same file right problems again. Download should work now, thanks for the notice. I edited your comment, error messages should not find their way to Google.

anonymous: Stubbles 0.6.0 released

nospam@example.com (anonymous) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:51:21 +0100

would really like to give Stubbles a try, but download doesn't seem to work:

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René Leonhardt: Traits for PHP

nospam@example.com (René Leonhardt) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:36:13 +0100

Wow, this is a great functionality, thank you for even implementing a patch against the current code base!

I hope some core developers will try it out, it would be very useful to have traits available when you need them.

Sebastian Bergmann: Do not trust the reflection API

nospam@example.com (Sebastian Bergmann) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:43:19 +0100

At least XSLTProcessor should now be fixed for HEAD, PHP_5_3, and PHP_5_2.

Frank Kleine: Do not trust the reflection API

nospam@example.com (Frank Kleine) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:39:54 +0100

My point was to shed some light on a behaviour which might affect others as well. If you got that wrong then I'm sorry, but I never intended to blame someone. Unfortunately my lack of C skills denies the creation of fixes for PHP itself. However I was free to submit a patch to PHPUnit which should solve the problem for now if it gets accepted.

Frank Kleine: Do not trust the reflection API

nospam@example.com (Frank Kleine) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:30:53 +0100

My tests where against 5.2.5.

Interestingly, the problem I explained with mock objects would not happen if the reflection API would say that the PDOStatement methods do not have any parameters. The problem here is that the parameter is optional, but you can not get any default value for it and must therefore assume it is null without being really sure about this.