PHP Tutorials

These 10 PHP development tools will streamline and automate those menial and often repetitive tasks that lead to

By Tim Perdue on January 21, 2001 And if you’re updating a row of data, you should first get a lock on that row so it doesn’t change while you’re in the middle of a transaction. A very simple example follows: BEGIN; SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id=1 FOR UPDATE;…

By Tim Perdue on June 13, 2001 I’ve been getting a lot of email and seeing lots of rumors about what happened to PHPBuilder and why it hasn’t had any new stories posted recently. internet.com is taking over the maintenance of the site and I am moving on to focus…

Geno Timlin defines what VO’s and DAO’s are in detail, then goes on to explain how and when to call on each one. 

Geno Timlin defines what VO’s and DAO’s are in detail, then goes on to explain how and when to call on each one. 

Geno Timlin defines what VO’s and DAO’s are in detail, then goes on to explain how and when to call on each one. 

Geno Timlin defines what VO’s and DAO’s are in detail, then goes on to explain how and when to call on each one. 

By Tim Perdue on November 12, 2000 What Does It Mean? Well, it means you can’t simply cross PostgreSQL off your list because it’s a dog anymore. Now, not only does Postgres have dozens of very advanced features that MySQL lacks, but it doesn’t appear to be weighed down by…

By Tim Perdue on November 12, 2000 The Bug Tracker Test Like most bug trackers, ours has suffered from feature bloat over time, and requires about 16 queries to display the browse page. None of the queries is particularly difficult – except one of them requires a double join against…

By Tim Perdue on December 10, 2000 Figuring out where your hits are coming from and which pages are being viewed is not too difficult if you use a good log analyzer like Analog or something similar. But if you want to pull up reports on the fly at any…