Function Overloading in PHP

April 19th, 2005

Update: I have written about a more Java-like, argument based overloading solution here.
I’ve been trying to get a set of good basic functions included within my PHP framework and ran across a nice little trick to allow function (without a class) overloading, the code should speak for itself.
This will be the default file.

if(!function_exists(”overloadableFunc”) ) {
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Conversation Engine Thoughts

December 30th, 2004

Diego has been writing about a project of his the “Conversation Engine”. I thought I would add a few thoughts to the fray that might help.
For discovery a simple RPC-Ping can be used, this can then add that site onto the spidering queue. To maintain the small scale test of the engine to begin with […]


test

December 29th, 2004

test test test test test


Word Ordering in Search Engines

December 10th, 2004

The way Google (and I’m sure most other search engines) use the ordering of the search terms is quite interesting. I have a feeling it may be a by-effect of the way they implement the filtering of results within their databases. To improve results, a person can reorder their search terms, but does the search […]


Poor Man’s Project Management

October 26th, 2004

I’ve take to using grep and a //TODO comment to handle my project management on my project. It’s better than keeping a list in a separate file cause this also keeps the context of what you wanted to do.