Archive For The “PHP” Category

Out with mysql in with PDO

By | May 16, 2011

A not so new feature of PHP which dates back to version 5.0 is PDO (PHP Data Objects).  PDO is a data-access abstraction layer that can access several database engines whilst maintaining the same set of functions.  I’m surprised I hadn’t discovered PDO earlier considering its been around way before I knew PHP. As part [...]

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Checking in…

By | January 14, 2010

My first semester back at University is almost complete, only two assignments (both completed) to hand in and then I’m done!  This semester has been quite easy, I’ve had to do 6 assignments in total, 4 in Java and 2 in .Net.  All the projects have been to create some kind of application, be it [...]

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/*And God Said:*/ World mWorld = new World();

By | December 12, 2009

Ok so blogging isn’t really up there with my priorities. This just means I write more less often. My semester at Uni is nearly over, only a couple of weeks left followed by a short break and i’ll be starting the next semester. The most interesting thing i’ve learned so far this year Object Orientatation. [...]

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