I have signed up and all my travel plans are set to go to ZendCon08.  This will be my first PHP conference and my first visit out to California.  I’m pretty excited to meet and network with the PHP community and look forward to learning many new things.  See you all on September 14th!
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Many PHP developers get confused when using the comparison operators.  Mainly weather to us two equal signs or three.  It really is a simple concept when you understand what it does.  The double equal sign (==) compares two data types which don’t have to be in the same type.  So for example you can compare
$a [...]

I just learned something new today in PHP.  It’s the Backtick Operator.  What it does is executes a shell command and captures its output.  You can then store that in a variable for use.  I am pretty sure this is a UNIX command only.  Not sure if this will work in windows or not.  Here [...]

The new release of CodeIgniter (1.6.2) still doesn’t have a date validation function included in the validation class. However, no need to worry. I will show you in a couple easy steps how to add this in.
First off let’s start by saying that we will validate dates in the MM/DD/YYYY format. If [...]

I have decided that I am going to revive the Indexing PDF Documents with Zend Search Lucene article and see what else I can come up with. Maybe there is a better way to do it and or I can create a little application from it. I am open for suggestions and or [...]