Kore Nordmann - PHP / Projects / Politics
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:35:28 +0100
:Copyright:		CC by-sa

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Articles published in my blog
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- Image creation with PHP - A first shape

  There are several ways to create images or graphics with PHP. First there
  are some well known extensions, like ext/GD, or perhaps ext/ming everybody
  immediately remembers, when it comes to graphics generation. But there are
  several structural differences not in between the avaliable libraries, but
  also between the image formats you can create. This article series will give
  you some insight on the formats and libraries, and then shows how an
  abstraction layer could be build. This second part describes the generation
  of shapes and the basic drawing context.

- Image creation with PHP - Formats & Libraries

  There are several ways to create images or graphics with PHP. First there
  are some well known extensions, like ext/GD, or perhaps ext/ming everybody
  immediately remembers, when it comes to graphics generation. But there are
  several structural differences not in between the avaliable libraries, but
  also between the image formats you can create. This article series will give
  you some insight on the formats and libraries, and then shows how an
  abstraction layer could be build. This first part of this article describes
  the various image formats and backends.

- Tagging - Broken by design

  In the meantime tagging, as a folksonomy, is often nearly used as equivalent
  to the whole Web-2.0-hype. Nowadays you can't develop any new application
  without adding tags, and I wanted to do the same. But reviewing the system
  in a bit more complex environment shows some major flaws, which can also be
  detected in the implementations of simple applications. This article lists
  some structural problems, and will be followed by other articles describing
  solutions for some of these cases.

- Why are you using BBCodes?

  The discussion on my blog post "Do not use regular expressions for parsing"
  ended in a discussion about BBcodes in general. I just used them as an
  example to demonstrate why it it is impossible to parse such a language with
  regular expressions - and mentioned in a subclause, that I don't see any
  sense in using them at all. So why use them at all?

- The long way to a semantic web

  HTML does not work, neither does XHTML. So how can this be solved without
  waiting years for better browsers?

- Why active record sucks

  It is not really Active Record which sucks but the implied, perhaps just
  misinterpreted, common usage as an ORM (object relational mapping). If you
  want ORm do it right and use AR where it belongs to.

- Do not try using regular expressions for parsing

  Often people try to use regular expression to parse markup like BBCodes or
  HTML. Why this will never work, or can work, and why BBCode suck in general.
  As a reference to reduce the amount of explanations on this topic for the
  future.