MySQL Bad Idea #573

This is MySQL's Bad Idea #573 (after #384, which I've blogged about before) I've just had a terrible experience with a bug report from the jOOQ User Group, related to escaping of backslashes in string literals in MySQL. First, I thought to myself, whatever. SQL doesn't escape backslashes. The only escape character within a string … Continue reading MySQL Bad Idea #573

FluentDOM, another mimick of jQuery DOM manipulation, in PHP

The triumph of jQuery over any other XML API seems prominent, in many languages. Here is another example of a nice jQuery-port to PHP: FluentDOM. http://fluentdom.github.com/ Similar to jOOX, FluentDOM aims to combine a jQuery-like fluent API with XPath and general DOM XML manipulation. Here are some simple examples taken from the FluentDOM documentation: // … Continue reading FluentDOM, another mimick of jQuery DOM manipulation, in PHP