Been doing this a while. I enjoy this a lot. ;-/

programming is supposed to be fun and it should be clear what the code does. That is my attitude to it.

I really try to control how the code behaves...

Current Issue I think is important (or 'Bee in Bonnet'?) ;-/

• Programming is about 'trade-offs' : Dan North - Decisions, decisions

• 'Dynamic programming' - what is it?

• Those 'pesky' comma delimited strings in database columns? maybe interesting? joining on ';' separated values in a column.

On Answers: The following are my 'priorities'

• I try, really hard, to make it correct - but it must return the correct results according to my understanding of the problem.
• I try hard to make it good as well.
• It may be 'less than good' code but it _must return the correct results that we all agree about.

Useful Stuff?

• If really desperate for error messages on a live site: maybe interesting? php-custom-error-handler-handling-parse-fatal-errors

• The easiest way to use PDO, provided by @YourCommonSense - a simple PDO wrapper allows use of PDO a simple and secure way

• Application Startup (index.php) - A PHP bootstrapping crash course

• Common MySQL Queries Extending Chapter 9 of Get it Done with MySQL 5&6

• convert to MySQLi using PHP's MySQLi class. Really good introduction.
• questions/3128985/php-loginsystem-remember-me explains how to implement a secure 'auto login' system in PHP.
• Manage hierarchical data with MySQL stored procedures

On Debugging PHP scripts:

• how-to-debug-in-php

Also:

• i try and check the existing comments and answers to see if the answer i provide is 'different' and 'maybe useful'. Or just 'different'!

On 'comments':

• try to be 'useful' - i try. :-)

On Iterating arrays:

• I really like PHP 'array's as each comes with an 'iterator' built in! See 'current', 'key', 'next' and 'reset'. I don't care what the 'indexes' are unless they are 'names'. I use 'current($array)' to get the first entry rather than 'array[0]' as the first index may not be zero.

This is so me... (XKCD: - someone is wrong on the internet).

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