Category Archives: PHP

prependChild on DOMElement in PHP, Sort of.

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

This evening I wanted to add a new LI onto a WordPress navigation programmatically. After considering a few different options, I decided I wanted to use PHP’s DOMDocument, and use this as an opportunity to more familiarize myself with its … Continue reading →

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Todays WTF Moment with CodeIgniter, MySQL and PHP

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

As routine as an oddly-twitching finger sabotaging any attempt to use your mouse, strange things  may take place with your environment, tools, or code. Today I was working on setting up a very small project with CodeIgniter when I came … Continue reading →

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A Shorter Ternary Operator in PHP 5.3

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

The ternary operator is simply awesome. It allows for some really beautiful if-else style variable assignments: $can_drink = ( $age <= 21 ) ? true : false ; This operator let’s you evaluate a condition, and return one of two … Continue reading →

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