D-talk (Entries tagged as php5)

Imagick driver for Kohana

nospam@example.com (Mark van der Velden) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:01:27 +0100

For image manipulation ImageMagick (IM) is really nice. However IM is not natively supported by PHP. Kohana supports IM using a shell wrapper simply because that is the only way to support IM without PECL dependancies.

While this means we can't use Imagick (the PECL extension) using the official Kohana release, this doesn't mean we can't write our own Kohana Image driver.
Since I have total freedom on my servers I wanted to use Imagick instead of the shell wrapper and wrote a Imagick driver.

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PHP LSB (Late Static Binding)

nospam@example.com (Mark van der Velden) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:20:52 +0200

Interesting news about new features in PHP, namely LSB (Late Static Binding).

What this basically means is that you can overload static functions, which is great news for all you singleton lovers out there.
And a nice leap forward in PHP code design, want an example? Read on...

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PHP and - not so real - references

nospam@example.com (Mark van der Velden) — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:15:00 +0200

A while ago I read somewhere about the (what I thought was a neat feature of PHP5) auto-references in PHP5. Bottom line is that it's best to not self-define referencing because the engine outsmarts you! Sara Golemon wrote a nice entry in her log here: http://blog.libssh2.org/index.php?/archives/51-Youre-being-lied-to..html. Might not be entirely true (since there is a difference), but until I read deeper into this matter I'll take these informative words as is. More internal information can be found here: http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1024 Where Sara takes us into the internals of References in her tutorial "Extension Writing Part III: Resources".