Reference counting is one of the hottest new features in PHP 4. It reduces the memory consumption of your PHP applications, improves performance, and provides you with some sophisticated programming tools. To get the most out of this new PHP 4 feature, it's important to understand exactly how it works and how it differs from PHP 3. Topics include: Data values in PHP 3, What is reference counting, Advantages of reference counting, Reference counting in PHP 4, Aliasing: added language flexibility in PHP 4, and How will reference counting effect you?.
binarycloud is a platform for rapidly developing complex web applications. It includes basic services like authentication, permissions, a template engine, database abstraction etc., an extensive collection of libraries, and a framework for configuring the system and building your own logic. This tutorial step-by-step explains how to install it in details.
What is the biggest time saver for a programmer? Good specs definitely help. A well-architected framework doesn't hurt either. Add your favorite here: a competent debugger? Extreme Programing? Whatever. At the end of the day, the largest gain comes from writing less code for the same task...
This tutorial will start introducing the array concept by creating them from info in a table. It will be shown how to display data from the array. Two additional examples will be used to show how to create arrays from strings, and how to perform simple keyword searches.