This has now been updated! Please check out the new post! So its been a while. Change of job, new babies, and other random events have filled my time. I think I’m ready to start blogging again and I’m hoping that this one really interests everyone. The one thing I like the most about JavaScript is prototyping. It kind of annoys me that PHP doesn’t...

So after the comment from Jay in regards to my previous post about PHP benchmarking I decided to sit down and write a PHP class for my upcoming framework that handles benchmarking. Usage is is fairly simple and is as follows: $benchmark = \IMorf\Benchmark::getInstance(); $benchmark->startTimer('fullLoad'); $benchmark->startMemoryTracker('fullLoad'); /** *...

The most common way to benchmark in PHP is by testing the time the script runs with something like $startTime = microtime(TRUE); // Bunch of code goes here echo 'Runtime: '.number_format(microtime(TRUE)-$startTime, 3); In most cases this works. But I was looking to track a bit more then load time while testing my upcoming PHP 5.3 framework. So I created a little...

While writing the DB classes for Aero I thought it would add in a simple ActiveRecord example for easy creation and updating of database rows. Since Aero isn’t quite done I thought I would release just this class for anyone that would be interested in something like it. Its only about 200 lines of code (Commented – only half that without them. This...

A topic that doesn’t come up that much anymore are anchors. I don’t find an occasion all that often that I have to use them but every now and then I will get a client that has a page that is fairly long and they want to include them. In a specific instance that came up this week the client has a CMS that they use to enter content for their site. The...