Archive for August, 2007

Turning on display_errors in WAMP - Video Tutorial

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Hi,
Within a WAMP installation, I ran into a little issue today when trying to change php.ini’s ‘display_errors’ property.
By default WAMP installs with ‘display_errors’ to ‘Off’:
display_errors = Off
… This is a pain-in-the-ass setting when trying to write new PHP code because errors don’t get displayed in the browser window; you have to go to the log [...]

Object Oriented PHP Tutorial Updated

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Hi,
I’ve update my beginners tutorial on object oriented PHP adding steps 12-17. I cover two new basic OO concepts in these steps:

Constructors.
Access modifiers.

Again, this is a code intensive article where I expect you to follow along with your PHP editors.
More to come.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killerphp.com

Object Oriented PHP Tutorial Released

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Hi,
I’ve just released a written tutorial on object oriented PHP, that targets people totally new to OO PHP.
Beginners Object Oriented PHP
Based on an article I wrote for a web design magazine; the tutorial is presented as a series of simple steps where I walk the reader through the process of building objects while at [...]

Why PHP is the choice language - a business owners perspective.

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Preamble
I have written this article to speak to business owners and other non-nerd types. So you will not see me go into nerd-details regarding my arguments.
Instead, I concentrate on the business arguments and only touch on the technological issues underlying them … when it makes sense to mention the nerd stuff.
Introduction
I’ve already [...]

PHP Classes and Objects video tutorial

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Hi,
I’ve released a new video that basically covers the content covered in the PDF: Classes and Objects.
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… It is the last bit object oriented PHP theory before we jump in and start writing actual PHP code.
Video: PHP classes and objects
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook

Classes and Objects in PHP

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Hi,
I’ve written up a short (2 pages,) document that goes over some of the very basics of object oriented programming - it should take you all of 5 minutes to read.
I wrote this as the preamble to my next video on object oriented PHP where we will actually create living breathing PHP objects.
Here’s a [...]