What is Exception Handling?
An exception (or exception handler) is a programming language construct that lets web developers have a better control over error handling. Most web sites development services have the option to extend this with their own custom exceptions to trap specific bugs or errors.
Exception Handling in PHP
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Archive for February, 2009
Written by Gertjan on February 16th, 2009
Written by Gertjan on February 16th, 2009
Just like any language, developers can write code in PHP that ranges in quality from truly awful to very good. Learn good programming habits that can help you bridge the productivity gap.
Depending on whom you ask, the difference between a good developer and an excellent developer, ...
Written by Gertjan on February 16th, 2009
This tutorial covers the essentials of separating your design from your content and adding an editor to allow the site owner to make edits from any location. This tutorial is geared towards PHP sites, but the techniques involved can be translated to ASP, Perl-CGI and other languages.
Written by Gertjan on February 16th, 2009
This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it ...
Written by Gertjan on February 13th, 2009
Smashing Magazine has put together an article comparing sveral of the popular PHP IDEs on a list of about twenty different features.
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Written by Gertjan on February 11th, 2009
One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. In this tutorial, we're going to make an AJAX powered shopping ...
Written by Gertjan on February 9th, 2009
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Creating a realistic water surface in Photoshop is quite a challenge because it is the distorted reflection of the surroundings that makes the water look liquid. The displace filter is an excellent tool for making this distortion. The displace filter "shifts pixels" in an image according ...
Written by Gertjan on February 7th, 2009
JS Charts is a free JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser). No additional plugins or server modules ...
Written by Gertjan on February 5th, 2009
Take a look at the following 20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know, you might learn something from it.
There are a few special techniques or effects that can spice up just about any web page. These are the top 20 Ajax effects that every web ...
Written by Gertjan on February 3rd, 2009
Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License. Zend Framework—often referred to as ZF—is developed with the goal of simplifying web development while promoting best practices in the PHP developer community.