Caching with PHP static variables Whenever a methodcall is used repeatedly in a piece of code, you may wonder if it wouldn’t be more efficient to cache the value locally, avoid the functioncall altogether and speed up the process. Let us see how we can cache with PHP static variables. Functioncalls are rather intensive : PHP […]

  Clear PHP reaches 100 rules Last week, we published the 100th rule in clear PHP. They represent recommendations to write clear PHP code. Such recommendations has various effect : avoid common pitfalls (No Unchecked Resources) prepare code for recent versions (Use Smart Autoload) complete some check that the engine doesn’t do ( No Switch With […]