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		<title>WordPress &#8211; Tips on Creating and Updating Tables with dbDelta</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>byron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I LOVE WordPress is that it makes some mundane programming chores very easy, particularly working with the database. WP uses a modified version of the ezSQL to interact with the database, and provides a number of data cleansing functions, both of which are huge time savers. One other thing that WP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP &#8211; Sort a Multi-dimensional Array by Value for a Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>byron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a problem I&#8217;ve run into a time or two with sorting arrays. I had a multi-dimension array that I needed to sort on a the values for a specific key (&#8220;name&#8221; in this case). This array is similar to what you would get back from a mysql database query when you use ARRAY_A to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OOP PHP:  What is the Double Colon in Objects/Classes for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>byron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I happen to be the only PHP programmer that I know, so it&#8217;s hard to ask your buddy what the heck that :: is used for in some OO PHP programs.  I know you could post it on a forum and get the answer, but I never did.  And Google wasn&#8217;t really forth coming when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP: Using Switch to test Multiple Conditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>byron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so maybe this is common knowledge, but I still felt a little clever when I figured out this trick.  The situation was that I wanted to test a bunch of different conditions to figure out which time category a date falls into.  It would be fairly simple to do with a bunch of if&#8230;then&#8230;else&#8217;s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP: Capture Included File Contents to Variable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>byron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I banged my head against several walls on this a while back and finally gave up.  Today I found this post over at bin-co.com describing how to capture the contents of an include file to a variable.  Here&#8217;s the code&#8230;thanks Binny! &#124; The code:]]></description>
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		<title>PHP: Proper Case Function for PHP Strings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>byron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, PHP does have a proper case function for strings: ucwords($string) If you&#8217;re looking for the lower and upper case string functions&#8230;here you go: strtolower($string); strtoupper($string); Why not a strtoproper(), just to keep it consistent? Well, consistency here wouldn&#8217;t exactly be consistent for PHP, would it ?]]></description>
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		<title>PHP: What is the &amp; Ampersand Preceding Variables</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>byron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this one is hard to find on Google, so I&#8217;m putting it in WhyPad to make it easy to find&#8230;at least for me, and I guess for you too since you here. Welcome! You may see PHP code snippets (PHP 5+ only) that have an ampersand, &#8216;&#38;&#8217;, preceding a variable like &#38;$my_variable. So, what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Codeigniter: ActiveRecord Join Tip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 05:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>byron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran into a problem with a SQL JOIN in Codeigniter&#8217;s ActiveRecord class. This post will help you get past that, but first a little intro to frameworks. If you&#8217;re a PHP developer, you have probably considered one of the incredibly useful frameworks that are available today. Cake, Zend, Symfony, and Codeigniter are some of [...]]]></description>
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