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Phil Sturgeon


My name is Phil Sturgeon and I program stuff in PHP & CodeIgniter.
I write about Linux, Git, jQuery and all sorts of other computery things!

"PHP" articles

Twiny-Framework: the framework small enough to tweet

Many frameworks say they are lightweight, quick and easy on your server, but none are as lightweight as my new "framework" which is so lightweight it can fit in a Tweet. Read More »

Posted in: Dec 15, 2009 


How to: Create a Twitter feed with full syntax support

If you have a project that you would like to add a Twitter feed to, but do not want to add in a massive library for the one feed, take a look at this very simple PHP snippet that will give you full synatx support.
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Posted in: Jul 28, 2009 


Poll: Will you use goto in PHP 5.3?

PHP 5.3 adds some great features such as lambda functions, namespaces and class constants, but one new feature "goto" in my eyes is a massvie step backwards. Read More »

Posted in: Jun 24, 2009 


DateTime objects - Start month, end month, first Monday, etc

Throw away strtotime and date() and check out PHP's funky DateTime objects for much greater control over your dates. Read More »

Posted in: Jan 12, 2009