Today I was tipped off to a certain quirk of PHP, specifically with how it handles Array resources. Every programmer knows, (or should know), the differences between creating a new copy of a variable and making a new reference to the same variable. In PHP, as far as I’ve known, you never access memory directly. …
Coming out of high school, it was stressed that good practice makes good composition. One of these pillars of thought was code purity. Purity in the sense that each method should do as it’s advertised without causing side effects. It’s not much different than Design By Contract, (DBC) – a coding technique promoted in The …
Can we reference an algorithmically-named set of variables in one variable to make our PHP code as future proof as possible? Yes we can!