PHP Autoload

In large PHP applications you typically see a “classes” directory that only contains classes which are used throughout the application (database, session management, forms etc..). A problem quickly appears: Everytime you wanted to use one of the classes, you would be forced to include() it at the top of the page. __autoload() solves this by automatically including the definition file when a…

Web Development Tools on Linux

While there are numerous posts and tutorials detailing web development tools for Windows and Mac operating systems scattered throughout the internet, there are very little for Linux. I’ll show and describe the tools I use to code PHP, Python, Javascript, HTML and CSS on a Linux platform (Ubuntu 8.10). None of these tools are distro specific.

Netbeans

Netbeans is a full featured…