Category Archives: PHP

PHP: Learning OOP Is Challenging

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Josh Pratt

I haven’t been posting much lately because most of my free time is being poured into trying to learn Object-Oriented PHP. With the development of the Magento Product Import Script, I figured it was time to “bite the bullet” and … Continue reading →

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PHP: Explode and Implode

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Josh Pratt

I was a really late in discovering the explode and implode functions of PHP. Explode and Implode offer an extremely easy way to convert a delimited string into an array, and the exact reverse of that. Often times you will … Continue reading →

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Magento: Add Instructions to Form Field in Admin Product Add/Edit

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Josh Pratt

I made some custom functionality that can happen with a product’s Short Description. Depending on what is put in that textarea, icons and special product-specific links can be displayed on that product’s view page. It requires a specific format though … Continue reading →

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PHP: One Line If Statement (Ternary Operator)

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Josh Pratt

I decided to see if there was a better way to write a simple if statement today, and of course, there was. It uses the Ternary Operator (?:). My if statement today was rather simple. I needed to find out … Continue reading →

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Mysqli and Object-Oriented PHP

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Josh Pratt

Sometimes it is easy for me to get stuck doing things the way I know how to do it, rather than finding a better, more up-to-date method. I just had a recent post about making multiple connections to mysql, but … Continue reading →

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Connecting to Multiple MySQL Databases with PHP

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Josh Pratt

I ran into a case where I needed to connect to two seperate databases within the same script, and I didn’t know how to do it without closing one connection, and opening another.  With a little time and effort, I … Continue reading →

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