The concept of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is fairly new to PHP. There's currently no official AOP support in PHP, but there are some extensions and libraries which implement this feature. In this lesson, we'll use the Go! PHP library to learn AOP in PHP, and review when it can be helpful.

They start with a brief history of AOP in general and a basic vocabulary of some of the common terms like "point-cut", "aspect" and "cross-concern." They briefly look at some of the other PHP tools for AOP, but then help you get Go! up and running. Sample code is included showing how to integrate it into your project and, more practically, create a logging system that can be used as an aspect.

This is in response to Chris Shiflett's "Technical Vocabulary and Grammar" post. My comment became so long that I decided to blog it instead.

Being someone with a degree in English...

He talks about collective nouns being plural (making it okay to use something like "PHPDeveloper.org are..."), periods inside quotation marks, a suggestion for aiding understanding of actual commands typed for programming books (loose the quotes and go bold), and his own view on what "PC" really means...]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:43:45 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4571 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4571 this new post today on frak's blog, there's a look at a PHP debugger that makes it simple to debugg your PHP applications - GUBED.

I never realised there was such a thing! The name of this great program is GUBED (debug backwards) and it is based on a really simple idea.

To run the debugger, you call some PHP scripts (also installed on the same website) that grab the code of the web page you want to debug, and call you back (as other 'hard server install' solutions do).

Gubed is a cross platform program to debug PHP scripts. For a general overview, see the About section, for a more technical description, see the documentation.]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:42:55 -0600