Embracing coercion in PHP
Coercion is implicit typecasting for scalar types (integer, float, boolean and string). In this article we look at how we can use coercion as an elegant alternative to explicit typecasting »
Ideal regex delimiters in PHP
We want to find regular expression delimiters that enable us to avoid inserting additional escape sequences into our patterns. This is ideal when we want to inject foreign patterns where »
New PHP 5 syntax reference
We briefly review the major new PHP language syntax introduced in each version since 5.3 – the version that birthed the features that paved the way for the prevailing »
Array merging in PHP
Correctly merging two arrays into a single array requires thinking about the type of data we have. Is our data flat or does it contain nested arrays? What should happen »