In my last blog-entry you’ve seen that I compared regexp vs nonregexp-techniques and the result was, that there are “bad” and “good” regexp; while the good regexp are as fast as non-regexp-techniques. Let’s take a closer look at what “good” regexp are. Please notice that I’m not a regexp-magician so if you know about a [...]

Yesterday I was talking with Sven about my Imap-Class and I told him that I switched regexp to non-regexp to gain performance. He was asking me whether the use of str* is really faster than the use of regexp in PHP and thus he said “you could write an entry about that in your blog, [...]

When I started with PHP 10 years ago, I was just trying to get a simple guestbook working. During time I’ve coded an IRCD (just for the fun of it and to learn about the rfc) in PHP and I made several other things. Sooner or later you stumble over OOP and one day you’re [...]

Heydiho. Ago some time I wrote a small document about MySQL’s COALESCE usage. Today I was asked to help with such a construct for a similar usage-scenario. Here’s the result:

Currently I’m working on some sort of shipping-system for a customer. It turned out that i was spending 3 days looking for a problem with my query while there was no problem. Well, apart from phpmyadmin But, lemme tell you later about it.