For years, I’ve been using an early version of a PHP database access class written by a friend of mine (hi Max!). I’ve been tweaking it over and over again, spending way too much time on it considering the end result.
Well I’m tired of reinventing the wheel. Since it’s fifth installment, PHP provides an API [...]

In most cases, websites don’t necessarily need to be managed by sessions that end as soon as the users closes their browser. Most websites now offer to keep their session alive for whatever amount of time. This is really less of a hassle for your users and adds to the positive user experience.
Learning what not [...]

The main PHP Class file of The Music Tank stopped loading altogether yesterday. After scanning lines after lines of code trying to guess what what generating an error I still hadn’t found the problem until late last night.
What made it nebulous was that instead of having a message from PHP describing a known error [...]