Troels Knak-Nielsen
Troels has been crafting web applications, as a freelancer and while employed by companies of various sizes, since around the time of the IT-bubble burst. Nowadays, he's working on backend systems for a Danish ISP. In his spare time, he develops and maintains Konstrukt, a web application framework for PHP, and is the organizer of a monthly PHP-meetup in Copenhagen.
Troels's articles
Use Webkit and Imagemagick to Create Cross-browser Buttons and Other Swag
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
For this tutorial, Troels Knak-Nielsen will show how you can render the well known super awesome button into a sprite that can be used in most current browsers and look just as good as they do in webkit.
Introducing pearhub
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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A Note on Google’s So-called Best Practices
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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A Minimal Dependency Injection Container for PHP
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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Interactive CLI password prompt in PHP
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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Flowing Markdown Upstream
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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On $_GET and $_POST
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
The PHP manual has the following to say about the notorious superglobals, $_GET and $_POST.
Introducing php-tracer-weaver
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
One of xdebugs lesser known features is its function traces. In case you haven’t heard of it before, it “allows you to log all function calls, including parameters and return values to a file”, to quote the manual.
How to Expose PHP’s Private Parts
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
In this article, you will learn how to serialize any object to a string, which will include private and protected variables alike.
DOM vs. Template
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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Character Encoding: Issues with Cultural Integration
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
In this article, we will talk about Issues with Cultural Integration, by the author Troels Knak-Nielsen.
Keeping Current With PHP
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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Debugging PHP
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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Useful in-browser development tools for PHP
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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What’s so bad about the Singleton?
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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Dealing with Dependencies
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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Lexical scope to appear in PHP?
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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The state of functional programming in PHP
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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PHP Manual CLI style 2.0
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
It’s quite often, that the manual actually holds useful information (Who’d known that!), so I find myself using www.php.net a lot, Troels Knak-Nielsen said.
Index of PHP tokens for Emacs and beyond
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
Emacs can use ctags to generate a list of tokens for a file, but I weren’t really satisfied with its output.
Dynamic global functions in PHP
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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Do less
By Troels Knak-Nielsen,
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