Everybody likes documentation. The Zend folks posted this overview and SimpleXML introduction The O’Reilly folks at ONLamp offered this guide to using SimpleXML. Of course, there’s always the SimpleXML docs at PHP.net.
Two problems: I haven’t encountered CDATA in my XML yet, but I do hope to develop a better solution than offered here when I [...]

Posted November 22, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: cdata, docs, documentation, php, php5, simplexml, xml, xml server. 5 Comments.

I’m going out on a limb to say MySQL’s full-text indexing and searching features are underused. They appeared in MySQL 3.23.23 (most people are using 4.x, and 5 is in development), but it’s been news to most of the people I know.
Here’s the deal, the MATCH() function can search a full-text index for a string [...]

Posted September 6, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: boolean search, boolean searches, boolean searching, database, db, docs, documentation, full text, full text index, full text search, full text searching, fulltext, fulltext search, keywords, match(), mysql, rank, relevance, relevance rank, relevance ranked, relevance ranking, search, search full text. 8 Comments.

I do a lot of web development on my laptop. I’ve got Apache and PHP there, so it’s really convenient, but I usually move projects off to other server before I get around to wanting to mess with mod_rewrite. Not so, recently, but I ran into a big stumbling block when I discovered OS X’s [...]

Posted August 30, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: .htaccess, apache, apache http server, apache web server, docs, enabling .htaccess files, httpd.conf, mac, mac os X, mod_rewrite, os x, richard rutter. 3 Comments.

Somebody asked for some links to get started with PHP. Of course I lead them to the PHP.net official site, where the documentation is some of the best I’ve seen for any product.
I also suggested PHPDeveloper.org and PHPFreaks.com, though the truth is I usually Google any questions I have that the official docs don’t answer. [...]

Posted August 16, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: docs, documentation, php, web scripting. One Comment.