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: Prolific Name-Sources

sklar@sklar.com (firebus) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:01:36 -0400

A fuzzy-edged bucket (something you'd want to vomit into at burning man?) Is it just people with things named after them? Multiple things? All their names?

I'd suggest Haile Selassie, nee Ras Tafari Mekonnen, since two names are concatenated in Rastafianism (although I guess Ras is really an honorific and not a name). That might be a fuzzy-edge case.

: Let a thousand string concatenations bloom

adam@trachtenberg.com (Adam Trachtenberg) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:16:02 -0500

I'm late to the party, but here's my offering:

$alice = array_reduce(array($bob, $charlie), create_function('$a,$b', 'return "$a$b";'));

: Let a thousand string concatenations bloom

jorrit@ncode.nl (Jorrit Schippers) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:01:28 -0500

I suggest using a web service for this

: Let a thousand string concatenations bloom

web-blog@sklar.com (David) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:41:19 -0500

I think Russ's preg_replace() contraption has a certain amount of "ridiculous, but not too ridiculous" elegance, but the combination of using MySQL's CONCAT() function and then extract() in demiurg's I think takes the "hilarious overkill" prize!

: Let a thousand string concatenations bloom

demiurg@gmail.com (demiurg) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:57:58 -0500

oh, take my favourite one:

$link = mysql_connect('localhost') or die("Can't connect");
${0} = mysql_select_db('mysql') or die("Can't select DB");

$sql = "SELECT CONCAT('".mysql_real_escape_string($a)."', '".mysql_real_escape_string($b)."') AS c";
$q = mysql_query($sql) or die("Can't query");
$D = mysql_fetch_assoc($q) or die("Can't get data");
extract($D);

feel free to refactor that for your favourite framework =P
do I win? do I win?

: Let a thousand string concatenations bloom

fa@codeschmie.de (fa) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:23:33 -0500

I tried to benchmark
echo $a,$b;
vs.
echo $a.$b;
at one point and came to the conclusion that from a string length of 35-40 (and assuming $a and $b have about the same length that , starts to get faster.

Not that I've ever seen an application that remotely would benefit from a fast echo/output

: Let a thousand string concatenations bloom

russ@firebus.com (firebus) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:47:42 -0500

$alice = '';
$alice = preg_replace('/$/', $bob, $alice);
$alice = preg_replace('/$/', $charlie, $alice);

: Let a thousand string concatenations bloom

brian@phorum.org (Brian Moon) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:40:35 -0500

The last two are bit gratuitous but yeah, there are a lot of ways to do it. FWIW, sprintf is fastest.

: DC PHP 2007 Slides

quickshiftin@gmail.com (Nathan Nobbe) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:58:11 -0500

Hi David,
first off let me say i really enjoyed your talk and took a lot home from it; very good stuff.
anyway i wanted to discuss with you the slide entitled 'Late Static Binding Workaround'. recently there was a discussion on php-general (mailing list) regarding variable functions.
here somebody said the same thing you did in your presentation about php being able to resolve static method calls dynamically at runtime in php 5.3, but i believe support is there in 5.2.4. i see from your slides that youre currently running php 5.2.3 so im not sure if support is there yet. anyway the reason i didnt bring this up during the talk is the slide doesnt show the ideal code you would like to be able to run, but im guessing it looks something like this:
$someClassName::staticClassMethod($args);

the conversation on php-general prompted me to write a test script and i discovered there is such support under php 5.2.4 (perhaps earlier as well, but i havent tested other versions)

anyway would you mind taking a look at the test script and telling me if thats the syntax you were looking for? if it is you wont have to wait around for php 5.3

here is a stripped down version of the test script to highlight the ability to call static functions dynamically:

-nathan

ps.
i noticed you are filtering the php code posted here; please see
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Function-variables-in-classes-p13532946.html

for the original post from the mailing list.

class Foo {
static public function staticMethod() {
echo _METHOD_ . PHP_EOL;
var_dump(func_get_args());
}
}

$fooStr = 'Foo';
$fooStr::staticMethod('blah', 1, true);

: PHP 5, Xdebug 2, and KCachegrind on Windows

peter@monicol.org.uk (Peter) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:35:34 -0500

Did you manage to do this?

: PHP 5, Xdebug 2, and KCachegrind on Windows

sklar@sklar.com (Andy) — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:03:23 -0400

"KCacheGrind is in the kdesdk package."

No, at least not anymore.
Only "umbrello" is in the kdesdk package included.
Gonna try to build kcachegrind from source then...

: API Design Talk Slides

bakert@gmail.com (Thomas David Baker) — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:09:17 -0400

We need video!

: API Design Talk Slides

jonathan.aquino@gmail.com (Jonathan Aquino) — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:56:23 -0400

Cool stuff! I enjoyed browsing through the slides.

: API Design in PHP at ZendCon 2007

web-blog@sklar.com (David Sklar) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:49:29 -0400

Hi, James. The slides are up at http://www.sklar.com/files/zendcon-2007-api-design.pdf

: API Design in PHP at ZendCon 2007

james@mcglinn.org (James McGlinn) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:31:06 -0400

Will the slides from your API Design talk at ZendCon be available online David? I'd be interested to read them if you're going to make them available.