In PHP, to successively filter data in one array based on some data in each row of another, array_filter() can be combined with create_function().
The function array_filter() takes the array to be filtered as its first argument, and a callback function as its second. The callback function is a function with one parameter, which is also […]

Over the past month or so I’ve been experimenting with some different ideas, tools and frameworks, all with regard to being a PHP developer working on a Linux platform. From a free software standpoint, there aren’t a lot of decent PHP IDE’s out there that run on Linux — I’m admittedly more concerned about “free […]

Recently I wrote an AJAX-based file explorer which uses an underlying XML document for all of its semantic structure. The idea is that a tree structure is served via PHP (in my case) or some other mechanism (in some other case) and then represented as a navigable directory structure in a browser.
The request is made […]