Miro Svrtan: PHP Fatal errors into exceptions natively
Miro Svrtan has a new post today proposing something that could be added to help handle bad method calls in PHP apps - using the BadMethodCallException (pre-existing) instead of throwing fatal errors....
View ArticleDean Clatworthy: Theming/styling error messages in Symfony 2
For the Symfony2 users out there, Dean Clatworthy has a handy tip to help you customize the output of your application a bit more - a method for styling the error messages coming from forms using a...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Testing Error Conditions with PHPUnit
Over on PHPMaster.com there's a new post for the unit testers in the audience (you all unit test, right?) from Matt Turland about testing error conditions in your applications. Let's say you're...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Setting Custom Error Messages for Zend_Form_Element
On PHPMaster.com today there's a new post for all the Zend Framework (v1) users out there. In it, Aurelio De Rosa shows you how to set custom error messages for elements in a Zend_Form. In this...
View ArticleTimothy Boronczyk: PHP Assertions
Timothy Boronczyk has written up a new post that looks at using assertions in PHP - the actual use of the assert function to evaluate values in your code. I stumbled upon assertions in PHP today,...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Exceptional Exceptions
On PHPMaster.com today they have a new post from Remi Woler about "exceptional exceptions" - using exceptions to handle the flow of your application's execution a bit better. Unlike errors, exceptions...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Why Suppressing Notices is Wrong
On PHPMaster.com there's a new article that suggests that suppressing notices thrown from your code is a bad practice to get into, both through error reporting and the use of the suppression operator,...
View ArticleLorna Mitchell: How NOT to Design Your API
Recently Lorna Mitchell asked the wide world of Twitter about some of their recommendations of things not to do when creating an API. In this new post to her site, she gathers together those responses...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: 8 Practices to Secure Your Web App
PHPMaster.com has posted a new article with some high level security tips and reminders for PHP developers when wanting to help prevent issues with their applications. The article provides eight tips,...
View ArticleMatthew Weier O'Phinney: RESTful APIs with ZF2, Part 2
Matthew Weier O'Phinney has posted the second part of his series looking at creating RESTful APIs with the Zend Framework v2. In the previous post he covered some of the basics of data and structure....
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Taming Slim 2.0
On NetTuts.com today there's a new tutorial posted about "taming" Slim 2.0, the latest version of the popular PHP microframework. They look at application structure and share some tips to using this...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Whoops! PHP Errors for Cool Kids
On NetTuts.com there's a new post spotlighting an interesting tool you can use to help make debugging an easier (and prettier) experience in PHP, the Whoops library. Whoops is a small library,...
View ArticleThe PHP.cc: Urban Legends and Error Handling
In this new post to the PHP.cc blog, Stefan Priebsch looks at the relationship between urban legends and error handing in PHP. Ending up in such a situation [as the tourists in the urban legend] is...
View ArticlePHP Manual Masterpieces: I Can't Spell PBKDF
On the PHP Manual Masterpieces site has a recent post looking at PBKDF and PHP (and, more specifically, the information that's presented about it in the manual). So why are we here? Well, a faithful...
View ArticleKevin van Zonneveld: It's Almost 2014 and We Are Still Committing Broken Code
Kevin van Zonneveld has a new post that, while not PHP specific, does have a handy script that will help you stop committing broken code. Whatever the reason, it's almost 2014 and we are still...
View ArticleDerick Rethans: Understanding Valgrind errors (1)
Using the Valgrind tool can give you a good window into the inner workings of your PHP script (at a very low level) but the results it gives can be a bit confusing to interpret. In his latest post...
View ArticleMatthew Turland: Travis and Composer and virtPHP, oh my!
Matthew Turland has a new post today to his site looking at the combination of three different technologies - TravisCI, Composer and VirtPHP - and an odd error he was getting from his build about a...
View ArticleEvert Pot: PHP 5.5.10 timezone handling changes
Evert Pot has a new post sharing some of the changes in DateTime handling that he's updated in the latest release in the PHP 5.5.x series. PHP 5.5.10 got released a few weeks ago, and among other...
View ArticleThree Devs & A Maybe Podcast: Exception and Error Handling
In the latest episode of the Three Devs and a Maybe podcast Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann look at error and exception handling in PHP applications. In this weeks show we...
View ArticleRob Allen: Throw an exception when simplexml_load_string fails
In a quick post to his site Rob Allen shares a class that he's created to handle and throw an exception any time that the load from a SimpleXML parsing fails. I keep having to look up how to stop the...
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