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We are running a Choose CMS series to identify the features of various categories of PHP CMS. As is evident from the title of series, the target is to choose the right CMS that suits our requirements. The first post of the series talks the qualities of a good CMS and identifies different genres of… Read more »
I am taking too long to close the New in PHP 5.4 series. PHP 5.4.3 is already released on 8th May 2012!!! Looking back, we are already familiar with the improvements in session handling, array syntax dereferencing and introduction of traits in PHP. Traits is an alternative approach for multiple inheritance. In another post, we… Read more »
On an HTML page, there are two types of container elements, i.e. block and Inline elements. In our article about the two types of HTML container elements, we noticed that both are essentially rectangular boxes. These container elements contain other HTML or text. The behaviour and position of the containers can be controlled by the… Read more »
Yii framework has three different possibilities for configuring the session. In the Yii Session series, we are already familiar with the session configuration by using the regular server side session and the database based session handling. This is the last article of the series and it talks about the session handling by using cache as… Read more »
We have been reading about the unified event handling model that brings the event handling under two main methods, i.e. .on() and .off() methods. In the first post of the Unified Event Handling Series, we compared the .on() method with the .bind() method and saw how the .on() method replaces the .bind() method. In the… Read more »
I am yet to write the last article of the Yii Session series. I just decided to write something about the scenarios in the Validation feature of Yii framework. Scenarios are a very useful tool for adding different validations rules for different cases on the same model. In a real life situation, you would require… Read more »
Joomla and Drupal are the most popular General Purpose CMS written in PHP. Like Drupal, Joomla tried to innovate by stretching its wings beyond the scope of a regular CMS. The separation of the Joomla Platform from Joomla CMS was an interesting step in this direction. However, Joomla 1.7 was just a stepping stone towards… Read more »
In terms of regular OOPS concept, Overloading means the ability to have multiple methods having same signatures but with different number and/or type of arguments. However, PHP’s interpretation of overloading is different than other Object Oriented languages like Java. In PHP, overloading is the ability to add properties and methods at the runtime. This is… Read more »
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