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HTML DOM and easy screen scraping in PHP

One of my favourite features in JavaScript is its ability to interact with the DOM so easily. This is made even easier by various JavaScript libraries and their selector engines largely based on CSS e

PHP 5.3... too late?

PHP 5.3 is around the corner, it’s got a bunch of handy new features. Yet, why am I not excited?

PHP users seem to have a horrible horrible habit of not upgrading quickly (if at all). Looking at re

Lazy Loading in PHP with __autoload

__autoload is one of the magic methods added to PHP in version 5. It creates a very easy way for you to manage all your different class files. Actually, with __autoload you don’t ...