Posts under ‘Application design’

Having immersed himself in some hideously coded PHP application, Alan Knowles lists six deadly PHP sins in a recent and very illuminating blog entry.
Maybe it just wasn't present in that particular example; for whatever reason, he didn't mention my particular favorite: the script include.
In PHP, it's possible to use an include file that only [...]

Inspired by a thread in the Sitepoint PHP application design forum, I went looking for some open source blogging software that was reasonably well designed. The reason was that I wanted to be able to modify the application if necessary but without having to enter “the heart of darkness”–trying to decrypt the kind of obscure [...]