PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 03:15:11 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Lars Strojny's Blog: NOWDOC + double quotes = HEREDOC]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9974 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9974 Lars Strojny has posted about a the new element that's been introduced in the PHP 5.3 branch - NOWDOC:

PHP 5.3 introduces a new syntax element, NOWDOC. If you know HEREDOC, NOWDOC is easy to understand: it is in fact HEREDOC taken literally. Whily variables are expanded in HEREDOC, in NOWDOC they are not.

NOWDOC is basically a HEREDOC except for one thing - no parsing is done inside of it, making it good for echoing out PHP code (that would otherwise need to be escaped all over).

]]> Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:25:09 -0500 <![CDATA[Derick Rethans' Blog: British date format parsing]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9734 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9734 Derick Rethans has posted about a new function he's whipped up for PHP's date/time functionality to handle the differences between US formatted dates and the British date formats - date_create_from_format.

From PHP 5.3 the new date_create_from_format() function and the DateTime::createFromFormat() factory method are available. As first argument they accept the expected format, and as second argument the string to parse.

He includes two examples - one showing it being used to parse a British date string and the other to show off the date_get_last_errors function that can be useful for debugging.

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