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Here is a thread with some of our observations. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=261421&ts...

Not sure what your statement means.

just awesome

interesting, for those of us who have been using apc for years.

When I started programming in PHP, my hosting setup involved a cPanel installation with Apache and MySQL. This has been the de facto standard for many PHP developers and for the mo…

ok i see your point. i conflated the terms function and closure in this case.

after thinking about it for a while, I was misrepresenting what block scope actually was and removed those references in the post.

author here. function test() { echo $a } test(); in javascript, $a would be 1 but in PHP it is undefined and won't produce output,

thanks for the help

i've also run into this, usually through double event binding

well, functions close over scope no matter what you call them.

author here, it wasn't about hiding private variables. i was demonstrating using closures to avoid global namespace collisions which i think is generally a big problem for beginner…

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or both for next level mode!

PHP was my first programming language, and my initial exposure to JavaScript was through libraries like jQuery. There were things about JavaScript that always seemed to trip me up …

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Design by contract is an important concept for controlling what type of input your methods or functions can receive. One of the most dangerous features of PHP is that functions wil…

In 2009, rock star devs used to pimp jQuery and most web Ninjas were highly skilled at Rails. Then rails became a ghetto and jQuery became a fat wife. But in the year 2015, things …