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A Single-Page Application is a website that fits on a single page. All necessary code is retrieved with a single page load or dynamically loaded and added to the page as necessary. The page does not reload at any point in the process unless it is manually refreshed. This provides a more fluid user experience.
SPA has been adopted by several javascript frameworks such as AngularJS, Ember.js, Meteor.js and ExtJS. But these frameworks are overkill in regards to what is needed for a SPA to function ...

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I know there's an excellent YouTube Video Gallery on DD. But I wanted a gallery that
- shows the videos inside the box containing the thumbnails for the videos, giving them the dimensions of the box;
- allows the videos to also be shown at full window size (maximize and minimize buttons for the videos);
- removes the Youtube ads;
- makes it possible to put text at the top of the thumbnails and at the top of the videos themselves.

So I made a gallery myself. ...

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Yes, the tutorial is still coming. It's big. It's in progress.

I read this recently and was intrigued. Don't know if anyone else would care or not ...

The author, nikic, does a great job summarizing the difficulties and potential benefits of type hinting, as well as giving a good explanation as to why PHP's implementation is incomplete. Personally, I look forward to being able to type-hint any type. It could save me a lot of code validating args, and I could ...

Updated 12-01-2012 at 04:48 AM by traq

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I wanted to take a few moments to talk about some of "the basics" that are all-to-often glossed over...

A Matter of Style

In general, I find that most PHP programmers fall into one of three main programming styles:

• procedural: a simple ordered set of instructions, nested if's/ else's, etc.
• functional: functions are little code containers that you can call on when needed. You [usually] give them arguments, they [usually] return values to you.
• object-oriented:

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Updated 12-17-2012 at 03:49 AM by traq

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Last week, I wrote about taking a "PHP-first" approach to programming - program first, output last. But what should go first in your program?

M-V-C
You may have heard about something called "MVC" (Model-View-Controller). If not, here's your crash course:

Model

Your Model is all of the information needed/used by your program. [Hopefully], the Model is well-organized. Think of it in terms of note-taking: notes are easier to ...

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PHP coding , Web Design issues