Teh Playgound is a PHP testbed, where you can do rapid PHP prototyping without the need to build your own LAMP stack or bother with saving files and the like. It allows you to slap together a quick block of code and render it straight in your browser, and even proceed to send that data…

PHP is full of cruft.For example, PHP has a "feature" wherein if you add '?=PHPE9568F34-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42' to the end of a script, it produces the PHP logo.http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?=PHPE9568F34-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42You can get this ID with php php_logo_guid.There is also php zend_logo_guid and an undocumented php_egg_logo_guid() function:http://digg.com/index.php?=PHPE9568F35-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42http://php.net/index.php?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42You can also get the PHP developer credits with php phpcredits or ask any PHP script using another code…

Recently, I've been to quite a few website that require my email, either for launch notifications or for registration. Now, most of you might know that GMail allows you to add the + sign in your emails and it will still reach your email for sorting purposes.E.g. I may use salmon+posterous[at]aprilism.com for emails from…

Method chaining is an advanced OOP concept in PHP. If you have experience in working with frameworks like CodeIgniter or CakePHP, you should have noticed a very convenient style of accessing different classes and methods and it looks something like this:$obj->foo->bar->anotherMethod();This technique in programming is known as method chaining. We'll understand more about this…