Mistakes are inevitable, in life, programming, and application submissions. You can prepare for errors by making sure your application is designed to respond to them. This two-part article explains how PHP handles errors. It is excerpted from chapter 8 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
- Even if you wear an S on your chest when it comes to programming, you can be sure that errors will creep into all but the most trivial of applications. Some of these errors are programmer-induced they are the result of mistakes made during the development process. Others are user-induced, caused by ...

Despite their name, static properties can help in a wide variety of situations. If you're not using them currently, and you regularly implement design patterns in your code, after reading this series you'll wonder how you ever did without them. This article is the conclusion to a four-part series.
- The term static is misleading when applied to a property of a class in PHP 5. It may lead you to think that a property like this does nothing particularly useful, or simply that its functionality is so irrelevant that it can't be considered a truly dynamic in-memory place. Fortunately, this ini...

In this third part of a four-part series on static variables, I show how to use another static property in the previous MySQL driver to connect