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The Singleton Pattern with PHP

The Singleton Pattern is often mistakenly referred to as the OOP nuts "Global variable".
Classes that utilise the Singleton Pattern aims to have a single instance throughout the lifetime of the request/process.

Template View and View Helper Design Patterns in PHP

The Template View and View Helper patterns lend themselves nicely when it comes to developing a View Layer solution for PHP, or so I found out with the recent refactoring of Cubix (dubbed Cubix II). This View layer duo is very much a great candidate for a 'tag team'. Each component performs a role and together make up a big part of the View Layer.

Using Stored Procedures & MySQLI in PHP 5

For the occasions that you want to use a stored procedure you've written in MySQL 5 through PHP , the semantic tool to use is PHP's built in mysqli objects/package.