Monthly Archives: October 2008

SOAP structures in PHP

Handling SOAP structures in PHP can sometimes be really annoying. If an interface is defined in the WSDL as returning an array I can’t be sure that I will get an array. If there is only one element in the

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Calculating annuity in PHP

A collegue asked me about calculating annuity payments on loans. So I had a quick look around and found many people asking the same thing. The concept might be simple but it seems a lot of people stumble when it

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Finally namespaces

There’s a lot of whining whining about the new namespace separator these days. Not only on blogs. At first I was a bit negative towards the choice but is more and more convinced it is a good one. First of

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Two weeks with Zend Studio for Eclipse

After more than ten years with Emacs and terminal flipping as my primary development environment, whether for C, PHP, WSDL, HTML/CSS or javascript, I decided to try (I mean really really try) an IDE for a while. As PHP is

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