Have a web project that you need done fast and you need it done right? Oh what’s that, you are also a fan of many of the concepts behind Ruby on Rails but want to find a PHP spirited equivalent?
Well, you may want to give Yii a looksy as it is my personal OOP PHP framework of choice for rapid development.
Here are my top five reasons – in no particular order – on why Yii is so stinkin’ awesome!
Your boss walks up to your coworker and tasks her with finding every single United States phone number lying within several million files.
Upon hearing this, you can’t help but feel relief that you weren’t asked to do this fully confident that your coworker will spend the next year of her life tracking this information down.
So when later that day, you see her back to hacking on one of her pet projects, you can’t help but stop and ask how the Where’s Waldo hunt for phone numbers is going.
“Oh that?” she asks surprised “I finished getting that information hours ago.”
How’d she do it?
Simple, she was using Regular Expressions. Here are five tools that will help you on your way to becoming a RegEx Jedi Knight.
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