Maggie Nelson's Blog: PDO_OCI does not support CLOBs
After struggling with it for a good while, Maggie Nelson finally figured out the answer to her problems with Oracle, PDO and CLOBs - they're just not supported. LOB support was added to PDO_OCI in PHP...
View ArticleJeremy Johnstone's Blog: Enums in PHP
In this new post Jeremy Johnstone looks at creating a class to add that's missing from the basic datatype set of the language - enums. I stumbled across a blog post on how to implement Enums in PHP...
View ArticleRob Allen's Blog: Some notes on SQL Server blobs with sqlsrv
In this new post to his blog, Rob Allen has posted notes on some of his experience in working with blobs with SQL Server using UTF-8. This turned out to be easy enough: Use ntext, nvarchar types in...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Introduction to PHP Arrays
On the PHPMaster.com site today, there's a good introduction to a basic data type in PHP - working with arrays. This tutorial is a low level look at what arrays are and how to work with them...
View ArticleAlberto Viana's Blog: Zend Framework and Oracle XMLType
Alberto Viana has a new post to his blog about using Oracle ZML Types with a Zend Framework application. He created a custom adapter to create the type and handle the binding/execution on an new OCI8...
View ArticleMrinmoy Ghoshal's Blog: Concept of Strings:PHP
If you're new to the PHP language and are looking for the full scoop on working with the string datatype, look no further than this new post from Mrinmoy Ghoshal. It's an excellent (and quite...
View ArticleNikic's Blog: How big are PHP arrays (and values) really? (Hint: BIG!)
In this recent blog post nikic takes an in-depth look at how large PHP arrays really are - how memory is used in the creation and management of these handy PHP variable types. In this post I want to...
View ArticleDerick Rethans: Questions from the Field: Should I Escape My Input, And If...
In his latest post Derick Rethans shares his answer to a question he was asked at a recent PHP conference regarding the escaping of input before use in a MongoDB query. At last weekend's PHP Benelux I...
View ArticlePhil Sturgeon: The Importance of Serializing API Output
Phil Sturgeon as a new post to his site today talking about the importance of serialized API output and why it's important to think about what to share and how they're shared. One section that seems...
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