Apostolos Dountsis

I have updated the list of general purpose functions with additional functions. I hope that you find them useful.

The pursue of a PHP editor is not a easy one. Over the years, I have tried a variety of editors. Some of them were generic text editors, like Notepad, VI, Pico, Textpad, KEDit, XCode and some dedicated PHP editors like Zend and PHPEdit. I needed a PHP editor that I could use on my Mac mini and my PC computer at work. I couldn’t find one that was meeting all my needs. Zend editor is a good choice but it is expensive and slow. Hence, PHPEclipse.

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PHP is a simple and yet very powerful high-level computer language that it is designed for creating dynamic pages and applications on the web. It is very well documented on the official web site and as it becomes obvious from browsing the Functions Reference on the online manual, PHP has a great API.

However, everytime I begin a new project either for a client or for personal experimentation, I end up in need of a set of general-purpose fuctions that are not included in PHP. I tend to put these functions in a file named common.php that I usually include in the base class of my project.

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