Comments on: 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about PHP.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:08:25 +0000

I’m still learning PHP, but I’ve already come to love the ternary operator for simple (non-nested) assignments…it keeps code simpler and less visually jarring. To help visually parse the ternary statement, however, I place parens around each of the pieces, like so:

$var = (testvalue) ? (truevalue) : (falsevalue);

which makes it quite easy to read.

By: Vincenzo

Vincenzo — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:07:05 +0000

Why only 10 things?
2. I would check for MX, A, CNAME entries for a host
3. I think it’s better to use PDO now if you want to make your code database-independent to some extent.

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By: Rafael S. Souza

Rafael S. Souza — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:12:04 +0000

“Learn to love the ternary operator.”

Too much love can be a problem.

Cheers

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By: Jhecht

Jhecht — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:38:21 +0000

Only problem with checkdnsr is that its an apache pacific function. So if you are like most, and first create your code on Windows and then upload it to an apache server, it doesn’t work on your test server so you can never tell what will happen.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:16:10 +0000

Uhh… #2 is wrong.

The domain in an email address does not need to resolve to an IP to be valid. An e-mail address domain can be perfectly good without an IP address, so if you follow this “tip” you will reject some perfectly good e-mail addresses.

To properly validate the domain in an e-mail, you must do an MX record lookup.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:34:30 +0000

If you have to worry about number 8, then find a new database.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:21:06 +0000

similar_text() is cooler.