I know there are many ways to scale MySQL, but specifically I am interested in Master, Slave, Slave,... scaling. Doing this with MySQL I can find fully documented on their site, so I don't need help with that (at least, not yet). I have a few ideas in mind on how to handle this in PHP. My main idea...

About four years ago I was working for a small company that did PHP based web sites. When I first started, I was a bit alarmed that the owner got most of his clients from sites like ELance, but I figured "If it works, why not". The first projects I worked on were fairly simple, a lot were fixing...

Building on some earlier code, I've put together 2 functions that send email to you upon failure. // Set debug email - place this here or somewhere else define('DEBUG_EMAIL','developer@yourdomain.com'); /* Connects to a MySQL server and selects requested database, will die() upon...

Why not just: switch($_GET['action']) { case 'blah': include('/inc/blah.php'); break; case 'dildo': include('/inc/other_stuff.php'); break; default: include('really_other_stuff.php'); break; } Easier to read than "elseif"s, easy to maintain, no...

$actions = Array('foo', 'bar', 'baz'); if(in_array($actions, $_GET['action'])) require("$_GET[action].php"); else { //do something about it }

At least it's indented correctly, unlike most of this developer's other code: function generate_password($length,$level){ list($usec, $sec) = explode(' ', microtime()); srand((float) $sec + ((float) $usec * 100000)); $validchars[1] = "0123456789"; $validchars[2] = "abcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxyz";...

Although calling this a PHP issue is kinda moot. I was hired to do up a quick import script to pull third party information into a database. I was given some test data, access to the server I'm importing to, and a good luck message. In short order, I managed to figure out the schema, and get a PHP...

After making some php program, or script for that matter i'm trying to fork a process so the script continues, on a win32 platform: <?php servername(); function servername() { $servername = "EMPTY"; while ($servername != "") { fwrite(STDOUT, "Server: "); $servername...

I'm currently in the process of customizing the firmware for a RAID controller used in some of my company's products. The LCD Controller Module (LCM) is written in PHP, a task for which PHP was NOT designed for. In addition to abusing exec all over the place, they poorly re-implement functions...

[quote user="huseyint"]Let's say there are 100 incoming links to MSDN Magazine Homepage with anchor texts "msdn magazine" and let 10 of these come from those crappy forum software with PHPSESSID appended to them. If Google is so intelligent, it will not promote those 10 links...