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Closures need use() to reach the outer scope

NoteOctober 26, 20112 min read

A closure in PHP does not capture the enclosing scope automatically. Variables from outside are simply not there unless they are named in use, which is a deliberate…

CodeIgniter hooks change behaviour without touching the core files

NoteOctober 4, 20112 min read

CodeIgniter’s execution flow has a fixed set of points where it will call your code — before the system loads, after the controller is constructed, after the response…

Namespaces resolve names; they do not load files

NoteMay 24, 20112 min read

The most common misreading of PHP 5.3 namespaces is that use is an import statement in the sense that Python or Java means it. It is not: it…

Closures in PHP 5.3 cannot reach $this

NoteNovember 23, 20102 min read

Closures are the part of 5.3 I reached for first, and the first thing I did was put one inside a method. Inside the closure body the object…

wp_reset_postdata after a secondary WP_Query loop

NoteNovember 15, 20102 min read

A second WP_Query in a template is harmless right up to the point where you call the_post() on it. That method assigns the global $post and runs setup_postdata(),…

Query WordPress posts by a custom field value

SnippetSeptember 23, 20101 min read

Register a class autoloader in PHP

SnippetSeptember 2, 20101 min read