Archive for March, 2008
Updates and ::’s
In my previous article (Microsoft Access and PHP), I discussed getting mdbtools setup and dynamically interacting with a instance of mdb-sql. Well it turns out somewhere in the pipeline (probably mdb-tools), we’re either not getting an EOF or reading an EOF right and as such I can read lines from the program’s STDOUT stream, but [...]
Microsoft Access and PHP
Microsoft products can really be a big wrench in the finely oiled machine that is your development environment. While Microsoft does offer some excellent products and development tools, when you work from an open source context, these great tools become great hazards and headaches. Case in point, access databases. Take as a recent example, a [...]
OO Design and PHP
I was helping a coworker the other day with some object oriented design issues in PHP and thought it would be great to share with the general PHP community as the general PHP community seems to lack in good OOP skills. The task, which will be detailed later when we release it, boiled down to [...]