Filter chains can be really useful when you want to pass an object (or several objects) through a series of tests in a scalable fashion. An example may be performing some request validation/filtering before your application starts to do anything too specific with it.
The idea behind a filter chain is that you create a […]
Every so often I grab the latest PHP 6 snapshot from snaps.php.net just to see what’s been going on in the development of it. Today I downloaded a snapshot as usual and was pleased to see they’ve already started to include support for namespacing.
Unicode improvements aside, namespacing is something I’ve longed for in PHP […]
Apparently the front controller is a commonly misunderstood design pattern so I figured I’d throw out some thoughts to the masses.
To put it simply, a Front Controller is a gateway to an application. All requests hit the front controller leaving it to decide what to do next. Typically a front controller will set […]