php Programming Glossary: terms

How to evaluate formula passed as string in PHP?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1015242/how-to-evaluate-formula-passed-as-string-in-php

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Reference - What does this error mean in PHP?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12769982/reference-what-does-this-error-mean-in-php

description what it means even if it is only highlighting terms to their manual page a possible solution or debugging approach..

isset() and empty() make code ugly

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960509/isset-and-empty-make-code-ugly

bloated becomes less readable without gaining anything in terms of value or meaning. Is there anybody out there who feels the..

What is a Factory Design Pattern in PHP?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2083424/what-is-a-factory-design-pattern-in-php

Pattern in PHP This confuses me in the most simplest terms what does it do Pretend you are explaining to your mother or..

Formulas to Calculate Geo Proximity

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2096385/formulas-to-calculate-geo-proximity

the most accurate results Which one is the best in terms of speed accuracy of results I appreciate your insight on these..

declare property as object?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2202995/declare-property-as-object

properties . You may also see them referred to using other terms such as attributes or fields but for the purposes of this reference..

Magic quotes in PHP

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/220437/magic-quotes-in-php

will be performing but how secure is the above strictly in terms of escaping data I also saw that magic quotes will be deprecated..

Code obfuscator for php? [closed]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/232736/code-obfuscator-for-php

Music and movie companies haven't quite come to terms with this yet they still spend millions on DRM. In interpreted..

PHP: Is mysql_real_escape_string sufficient for cleaning user input?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353666/php-is-mysql-real-escape-string-sufficient-for-cleaning-user-input

user input in most situations EDIT I'm thinking mostly in terms of preventing SQL injection but I ultimately want to know if..

Opening/closing tags & performance?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2437144/opening-closing-tags-performance

template code and if so what might be best practices in terms of working with PHP tags My question is not about the importance..

What is a RECURSIVE Function in PHP?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2648968/what-is-a-recursive-function-in-php

function recursion share improve this question Laymens terms A recursive function is a function that calls itself A bit more.. question where the accepted answer demonstrates in laymen terms how a recursive function works. Even though the OP's question..

Reference - What does this symbol mean in PHP?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3737139/reference-what-does-this-symbol-mean-in-php

does support special characters . Just surround the search terms by quotes e.g. php vs What should I do here If you have been..

Levenshtein: MySQL + PHP

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4671378/levenshtein-mysql-php

just one query Don't want to have to query through all terms and do the filtering in PHP. php mysql levenshtein distance..

mysql vs mysqli in php [closed]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/548986/mysql-vs-mysqli-in-php

And why Which should I use I mean better not just in terms of performance but any other relevant feature. php mysql ..

Compiling an AST back to source code

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5832412/compiling-an-ast-back-to-source-code

all text based programming language are rendered nicely in terms of rectangular blocks of text. Knuth's TeX document generator..

How should a model be structured in MVC?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5863870/how-should-a-model-be-structured-in-mvc

links that are used in the content are there to explain terms and concepts and not to imply my own credibility on subject...

Adding attributes to customer entity

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5961290/adding-attributes-to-customer-entity

array in the customer_form_attribute database table. In terms of using a select with predefined options this is what you need..

Replacing mysql_* functions with PDO and prepared statements

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8061185/replacing-mysql-functions-with-pdo-and-prepared-statements

You can but you don't have to. Now is this all safe In terms of database safety there are just no weak spots in this code...

Ignore html tags in preg_replace

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8193327/ignore-html-tags-in-preg-replace

XPath allows you so find all texts that contain the search terms within texts only ignoring all XML elements. Then you only need..