Today i found in a older website i administrate some messages in the Apache error logfiles.

They looked like this:

I searched the web and found this replacement code:

and

I hope this might help someone.

Hint:
Do not use isset() here, because it might be wrong!
PHP - Benchmark isset() or array_key_exists() ?

After using and developing PHP for a few years now, i heard pretty much stuff about optimization, special technice's and other myths and fairy tales. But this article is not about tips or tricks, it is about if this the real key to better performance.

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Everybody talks about security but most of the people still save md5(password) in their databases. This is not funny. Reversing a simple and even a average password is not that hard.
I once wrote this tiny class that generates secure enough password hashes.

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A few days ago i needed a simple queue class that would also be persistent after the pagerequest. I first thought about putting this queue in SQL but did not want the whole SQL overhead and such and remembered a blog artice about memcache queues a once read. But i had no memcache for that project and used APC instead.

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Today i found a error in a tiny script i was working on.
The error Message looked like this:

First i found a few hints about repairing or optimizing MySQL tables, but this did not work out.
After a few debugging outputs a realized that the query was not properly written.

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For all of you who liked phpMyAdmin2 where all relevant information was visible at any time, sould be annoyed be the new slider effects in phpMyAdmin3.
I did a short search for the config value to change this and found this solution.

Add this to your config.inc.php:

And your sliders will start in visible state.

phpMyAdmin download:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php

A workmate mentioned, that floor($i) could be replaced with (int)$i.
I found this very interresting and did some researched about that.

floor($i); will return a float that will have the lower value of $i.
A cast will just convert $i to an integer which will cut of all decimals.
So by symptoms, these two methods are equivalent. Even if floor returns a float, PHP does dynamic casting of its variables.

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In a PHP Project i am currently helping out, i found this function:

It is a simple function for replacing chars. It works quite well, but was mainly only used for checking [^a-z0-9]. So i tested the speed of this code.

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In a current project of mine i needed the use of a universal caching system.
After testing a little bit with APC i found memcache that will do the job perfectly.
So i wrote a few tiny functions for easy memcache handling.

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I found this class on Twitter. Nice idea flipping chars by replacing them with their unicode upside down alternative.
But what bugged me was the code, it looked awful. So id did a rewrite to clean it up a little bit.

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