PHP: yet another blog

Added AJAX + CyrLat class usage demo

2005-10-27T10:08:00.000+02:00

No need to reload page! Ajax-technology do it for you. See examples on my phpclasses page

My class in PHPClasses.org

2005-10-21T22:51:00.000+02:00

On PHPClasses you can see now my class for converting cyrillic to latin symbols and from latin to cyrillic. I don't thing it is intresting for non-russian speaking readers, but class is so nice :)

New template

2005-10-18T17:16:00.000+02:00

New Template for my blog. Only CSS changed and two blocks were misplased. I think it's rather good-looking.

Generated in xx.xx seconds

2005-10-15T23:25:00.000+02:00

Are you interested in knowing how much time is needed for PHP to proceed your script? NO? O.K., just think of this like about example, such a "Hello, world!". We'll make it using PEAR.
Let's look, what time is needed to echo "Hello, World!" phrase.
So the idea is not new: before printing phrase look at clock and remember this value. Now print phrase. Look at clock again and you'll see how much time passed.
I promised to do it using PEAR. OK, Benchmark::Timer is what we need.


<?php
# I don't think any comments needed at all, but…
require_once("PEAR.php");
require_once("Benchmark/Timer.php");
# initialize $timer
$timer=new Benchmark_timer;
# begin time counting
$timer->start();
# doing smth
echo "Hello, World!\n<br>";
# stop time counting
$timer->stop();
# show result
echo "Time elapsed: ".$timer->TimeElapsed();
?>

That's all. [Hi, Max :)]

Read docs for Benchmark::Timer, and you'll find very interesting function setMarker().

Save your nerves and time-use PEAR

2005-10-15T23:24:00.000+02:00

Very often when you are working at a _rather_big_project_ you want to save your time and nerves. You have a clear idea of what to do in general, but digging little parts of a project you understand that details are numerous and free time is not endless. You remember, what there are a lot of usual code-parts witch are going from project to project, some parts of them were made by you some time ago from the very beginning, some were copy-pasted from codes of other people. Now they need correction for your current needs. You begin copy-pasting some scripts, editing them. Brrrr. That's a good way but… To protect your nerves and time I propose you to use PEAR.
I think that you've heard about PEAR, but I don't think you really used it. If I'm mistaken, I'm really happy for you and think that you are using PEAR with pleasure.
In any case I want to tell about my experience working with PEAR.
There is a huge number of manuals, help-topics, forum-talks about "How to get/install/use PEAR", that's why I will skip "Introduction to PEAR" and show you my vision of using it.