Regex to check if the string contains any letters of any alphabet
There is a trivial task to check if the string contains any letters: But what if the $str is a…
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How to merge paths in PHP properly
Updated on 20.07.2016 with a small fix. Let’s talk about PHP again. Suppose you store the base directory path to…
Thoughts on SQL Antipatterns
Just watched the presentation about SQL Antipatterns and got one thought to share. The presentation is good in general and…
Passing Zend Certified PHP Engineer Exam in 2016
This article is also available in russian. On 5.5.2016 I passed the Zend Certified PHP Engineer exam on the PHP…
Why reverse condition check is not practical
Small note about “reversed” condition checks like these: and why their benefit is so small compared to the side-effects. It’s…
Cross-Domain AJAX tutorial and demo
After I learned about 4 types of implementing cross-domain scripting I thought that it would be nice to create a…
isset or not isset
If you work with PHP for a long time, you probably get used to the code like this: the magic…
Another reason to use Vagrant for PHP development
I always insist people are using the same or maximally similar environment as the production server has, that is the…
WordPress hooks on post creation
When you create a post in WordPress a bunch of actions happen and a lot of them allow hooking into.…
Learning best practices from WordPress code – Tableform
Learning new frameworks is always a good idea even if you’re not going to use them in your job. For…