OK so I was bored and decided to go out and look for some of the slides for the sessions that I attended at this years ZendCon.  I found’em and many more so I decided to make a repository of all ZendCon08 slides for each session.
If your session is listed but has no link to [...]

Last week at ZendCon08 I took my ZCE test for PHP5 and passed.  I am now a ZCE!

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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
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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 [...]