PHP is full of shenanigans. If you know them you can code more efficiently. If you don’t it can make for a mess. One of the lesser used, but useful tricks is casting as array.
If you’re not familiar with casting, check the docs: http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php
Here’s a quick breakdown of what happens when you cast to array:
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I’ve been fascinated with Conway’s Game of Life for years now. I love how there is an apparent order to things that is reproducible as well as simple in it’s requirements. Recently there was a discovery that made the tech news about a new pattern that replicated itself. I’ll be honest, the demo of the replicating code wasn’t as sexy as I had hoped. But it did remind me how much I want to make this game.
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Ok welcome to the second part of this matchup between MongoDB and MySQL 5.4 via Doctrine ORM on Symfony. In our previous test MongoDB blew away MySQL’s MyISAM and InnoDB engines on raw insert speed. We were unable to use Doctrine for the inserts test as 2.5 million records quickly runs out of memory in Doctrine. So we opted for straight sql through PHP 5.3 commands with the MySQL native drivers. It wasn’t even close.
So now let’s see how MongoDB holds up against MySQL in the simple query arena.
MongoDB caught my eye recently as a potential solution to managing large data sets with dynamically generated relations. But I didn’t know what to expect since I had not played around with any of the other DODBs. So I started setting up test cases and decided to share them with you.