Today our special guest is Lorna Mitchell. Lorna is a Developer at Ibuildings in the UK, and is based in Leeds in the North of England. She is a Zend Certified Engineer and the senior member for phpwomen.org in Europe. Today, Lorna will be talking to us about Data Importing.

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This [validation from an external site like the W3C validator] approach is a good start, but it is far from ideal because it is based on an honor system of sorts. You often forget to validate each change you make and there is always some corner case that you forget. So, what can be done about it? Well, if you find yourself developing in PHP, you can employ the following solution.

The code he includes pulls in the XHTML content from your page (or the output of the framework's view layer) and pushes it into a DOMDocument that's build with the LIBXML_DTDLOAD and LIBXML_DTDATTR options.

I used to work off of my web server but the problem I've had lately is that when I'm not connected to the internet I haven't been able to code for Wordpress in a way that allows me to view my changes. Since I started using the techniques used in this tutorial my productivity has increased significantly.

His method has you install MAMP on your local machine (for the Windows users, WAMP is just about as easy to set up) and how to import content over from your remote server to the local machine. Of course, you could just set up a subversion repository, but that's another tutorial...

We now have an implementation of namespaces in PHP 6 HEAD, so here's a short FAQ about how they work for those that are too laz^H^H^Hbusy to read the whole README.namespaces.

It's an FAQ sort of list (quick questions and answers) with eleven questions that give an overview of what will be supported. This includes why they've been implemented, what some of the syntax is and looks like and how they can be used in files.

Also note namespaces are still work in progress, so it may happen it would be changed a lot when it’s released.