by suleski | Aug 10, 2014 | Reference, Technical, Troubleshooting
I wanted to create documentation for my most recent PHP project. My code was all set and in a form that it should be in – I just needed a way to generate the docs. I considered two options: phpDocumentor ApiGen Ended up going with phpDocumentor because it...
by suleski | Aug 10, 2014 | Reference, Technical, Walkthroughs
PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository. It’s basically an add-on to PHP that has a bunch of frameworks that are available. You can read more about it at the official site. Getting PEAR onto my system was not obvious. I came across two articles...
by suleski | Apr 22, 2014 | Reference, Technical
Was double-checking this today and confirmed that PHP does not support derivation from multiple classes. But worthy of writing this article was a new construct introduced in PHP 5.4: traits. Traits mostly remind me old-school C pre-processor #define calls. So, I can...
by suleski | Apr 11, 2014 | Reference, Technical
As I write the styling for a new site, I want to pay careful attention to too much CSS. As a result, I did some searching on layout times and came across a list of CSS Selector types ordered from most efficient to least efficient. Here they are: ID, e.g. #header...
by suleski | Apr 9, 2014 | Products, Reference, Technical, Walkthroughs
Recently, I gave up on using Eclipse in favor of NetBeans. I had also considered Visual Studio for my Windows machine, but NetBeans was easy to setup a project that did not get in the way of the folder hierarchy and worked well with my local WAMP setup. As I started...
