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Posted by Josh on February 24th, 2009

I’ve been developing websites for years, and through them I’ve been slowly building up a collection of handy tricks that speed up my development process. I’ve never been a fan of the large frameworks such as symfony (www.symfony-project.org) or CakePHP (www.cakephp.org), choosing rather to have a small code base of handy functions to speed up development.

My most useful “trick” is my MySQL class. While it won’t be the fastest by any means, any pieces of sites that require high speeds I can always code manually. The class supports automatically taking POST / GET items, and inserting them into a database (while escaping all neccessary items), with a simple “$SQL->insert(’tablename’,REQ(array(’field1′,’field2′,’field3′)));

Unfortunately using the word “array” is of the more annoying problems I have with PHP, especially when creating arrays of arrays, a problem that I havn’t yet come up with a solution for (suggestions anyone?) (more…)

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