My slides introducing PHP 5.4.7 from the talk at Guelph PHP user meetup are now available online and can be downloaded at: http://ilia.ws/files/guelph_php54.pdf
The slides from my talk, Caching with Memcached are now available and can be downloaded here: http://ilia.ws/files/nena_memcached.pdf.
Thanks for everyone who attended and asked questions, wish we had a bit more time to allow for more questions, but if anything was left un-answered come find me or post your questions on this blog.
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The slides from my talk, introducing PHP 5.4 are now available and can be downloaded here: http://ilia.ws/files/nena_php54.pdf.
Thanks for all the attendees for being a wonderful audience, especially those asking many great questions.
P.S. If you've seen the talk please don't forget to leave feedback at Joind.in.
The slides from my presentation at PHP-GTA about the Hidden Features of PHP is now available online and can be downloaded here: http://ilia.ws/files/php-toronto_hidden_features.pdf. Hopefully everyone in attendance learned something new about PHP and many thanks to all the people who had asked questions helped make the discussion that much more interesting.
For our database connections we PDO at work and we've extended the class with PHP to offer some other convenience functionality and wrappers. One of the things I wanted to do recently is allow the constructor of the PDO class to fail-over to our backup database connection pool in the event the primary was not available. The idea was to do something along the lines of:
[php]
class DB extends PDO {
public function __construct($dsn, $login, $pass, $backup_dsn) {
try {
parent::construct($dsn, $login, $pass);
} catch (Exception $e) {
parent::construct($backup_dsn, $login, $pass);
}
}
}
[/php]
Essentially the code would call the PDO's own constructor, if it would fail, an exception would be raised, which would then be caught by the exception handler that will attempt to connect to the backup database connection pool. Unfortunately this simple solution does not work, the reason being, is that when PDO's constructor fails to connect, it destroys the object. Which means any attempts to use or access the objec...
Guide to PHP Security
