The Bakery: Checking for duplicate records (unique record)
On The Bakery, there's a new expanded tutorial (from this) that talks about how to check for duplicate records in your CakePHP model. [Here's how to] validate a form field (such as a user name field),...
View ArticleJSLabs Blog: How to stop IE from caching AJAX requests
If you've ever had the frustration of working with Ajax in Internet Explorer and have noticed it caching the requests/results, you might want to check out this new post on the JSLabs blog for a...
View ArticleSebastian Bergmann's Blog: Distributed Testing with PHPUnit 3.1
In his latest post, Sebastian Bergmann spotlights another new feature of the upcoming PHPUnit release - distributed testing. One of the new features in the upcoming PHPUnit 3.1 release is the support...
View ArticleInternet Super Hero Blog: Is PDO::FETCH_UNIQUE broken by design?
On the Internet Super Hero blog, there's a post that looks at how PDO is implemented in PHP and wonders if the PDO::FETCH_UNIQUE constant is broken (as something to fix before even considering the...
View ArticleBrian Moon's Blog: in_array is quite slow
Brian Moon had a problem - one of his cron jobs was lasting for much longer (hours!) than it should have been. He tweaked, tested and debugged the script and finally came down to a call to in_array,...
View ArticleHavard Eide's Blog: SplObjectStorage
Havard Eide has a recent post to his blog that looks at a part of the Standard PHP Library (SPL) that can be used with objects to store them for later use - SplObjectStorage. In this post I will look...
View ArticleServerGrove Blog: Enforcing unique key constrains with Doctrine ODM for...
New on the ServerGrove blog today is a quick post talking about how you can enforce key constraints on a MongoDb with Doctrine in Symfony. Of course you can define unique indexes to prevent duplicate...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Generating One-Time Use URLs
On PHPMaster.com there's a new tutorial posted showing you how to generate one-time use URLs that could be used for various things across an application, including things like account verification...
View ArticleBob Majdak: On SQL in PHP
In a new post to his site Bob Majdak looks at using SQL in PHP and some of the challenges he's come across (some of them with his own tools). He talks about things line inline SQL, loading SQL by...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: How to Create a Unique 64bit Integer from String
In the latest post to the SitePoint PHP blog Vova Feldman shows you how to create an integer from a hash string that's both 64 bit and unique each time it's generated. PHP provides the popular md5()...
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