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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Welcome to the third part of my series on MVC framework development. In the previous two articles, I discussed the general feature set that our framework will have and I also gave an overview of the page load scenario. In today’s episode I am going to switch gears and discuss a single component of the […]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
In my previous article, I announced that I would be documenting the process of developing a simple MVC framework. In this post I will go into a little more detail about each of the specific components of our MVC and will discuss the series of events which occur each time a page loads, otherwise known as […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
2007 was the year of framework development for PHP. Cake, Code Igniter, Zend, Solar, Symfony, and piles more began to really get some well deserved attention. Today, you can throw a rock and hit a half dozen production-ready frameworks that are actually worth using.
Last year, I spent quite a bit of time surveying each framework […]
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
The singleton is an incredibly useful pattern in PHP for many reasons. I tend to find myself using them when I know I should be using static classes, but can’t because of PHP’s lack of proper class name discovery in extended static classes. Also, they make great containers for database connections, configuration objects, session wrappers, […]
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