Edd Mann: Implementing Streams in PHP
Edd Mann has a new post today looking at implementing streams in your PHP applications. In this case we're not talking about the streams built into PHP but the concept of a source of information that...
View ArticleDerick Rethans: Parallelizing document retrieval
In his latest post Derick Rethans shows how to parallelize document retrieval from a MongoDB database via PHP. This makes it possible to speed up the read operation caused by reading each item one at...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Fun with Array Interfaces
On the SitePoint PHP Blog a tutorial has been posted recently about having some fun with array interfaces via some of the functionality provided through the SPL (Standard PHP Library). As a programmer...
View ArticleBob Majdak: Extending an Iterator to use an Iterator to make your code a...
In this new post to his site Bob Majdak talks about extending iterators to help make it easier to customize it for your needs. One of the nice things about iterators is the ability to shove them into...
View ArticleMaltBlue.com: Painless Data Traversal with PHP FilterIterators
On the MaltBlue blog Matt Setter has a new post introducing you to using FilterIterators for data traversal: There's load of ways to traverse data, especially in PHP where there are a variety of loops...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: List Files and Directories with PHP
On PHPMaster.com there's a new tutorial showing you how to work with files and directories through your PHP applications. In this article I'll talk about a common task you might have experienced while...
View ArticleWeb Mozarts: Give the Traversable Interface Some Love
In this recent post to the Web Mozarts site, Bernhard Schussek "gives Traversable some love" and introduces you to the Traversable interface and how it might work better for certain things than an...
View ArticleThomas Weinart: What Iterators Can Do For You
Thomas Weinert has a new post to his site showing some of the things that iterators can do for you (including working with arrays and aggregation). Basically Iterators provide a list interface for an...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: What Generators Can Do For You
Anthony Ferarra has a new post looking at using generators in your code (as recently proposed for addition in PHP's core (Possibly for 5.5.0). While I believe that this is a great tool, it appears...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Using SPL Iterators, Part 2
On PHPMaster.com today they've posted the second part of the series covering the Iterators that come with PHP as a part of the SPL. In part one of this series I introduced you to some of the SPL...
View ArticleJeremy Cook's Blog: Implementing IteratorAggregate and Iterator
In a recent post to his blog Jeremy Cook has gotten back into looking at some of the SPL functionality that comes with PHP. In this new post he looks specifically at the IteratorAggregate and Iterator...
View ArticleStefan Koopmanschap's Blog: GlobIterator: Easy access to specific files
Stefan Koopmanschap has a new post to his blog showing a handy use of the GlobIterator to access only certain files. For a project I am working on I needed to iterate over all .xml files in a specific...
View ArticleLorna Mitchell's Blog: Using iterator_to_array() in PHP
Lorna Mitchell has a new post to her blog today showing off a lesser-known but very useful function included in PHP - the iterator_to_array function, used to translate things that implement...
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