Pankaj Kumar has a slightly disturbing look at memory usage in PHP. Each element requires a value structure (zval) which takes 16 bytes. Also requires a hash bucket – which takes 36 bytes. That gives 52 bytes per value. Memory allocation headers take another 8 bytes*2 – which gives 68 bytes. Pretty close to what [...]

<?php define(’WORD_LIST_FILENAME’, ‘/usr/share/dict/words’); class AnagramLookup {     private $lookup;     //  Loads a file with one word per line     private function load_word_list($filename)     {         $lines = file($filename);                     // One word per line         [...]

PHPT is the kind framework that encourages testing simply by making everything so easy. All that’s needed is a file with your PHP code and expected output. It wont replace SimpleTest or PhpUnit for anything complicated (say, like PHP itself…) but it seems to be just what I’m after. There’s little documentation about (PHP QA [...]

$row = $table->tr(); if(!($amIAltOrNot = !$amIAltOrNot)) {     $row->class = "alt"; } //  Edit: Much better now $row = $table->tr(); $row->class = ($amIAltOrNot = !$amIAltOrNot) ? "" : "alt";

This website is now hosted on Slicehost (along with section99.net). It’s a little early to know how it will turn out, but so far I’m loving having not only a shell, but root access. Signing up was completely painless and the the VPS was provisioned within minutes with several different operating system options (though I’m [...]

Code <?php /*     PHP implementation of a common programming problem:         Reversing a singly linked list */     error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);     //  This is our basic node     class WordNode     {         public $word;         public $nextNode;   [...]