I do a lot of writing. I write about web development and I write about nonsense (usually more of the latter than the former) and I sometimes forget where I wrote about what and for whom.

I have decided to trawl the web and track down the articles and tutorials I have written and create a post here on LukeDingle.com with a summary and link off to the site where the work resides. It will also give me an opportunity to write follow-ups or go into further detail about the subjects in question.

You will see these posts appearing under the category Writing For Others. I will change the publish date to the date it was published for real so it doesn’t look like I’m dressing mutton as lamb.

I think it’s a good idea to bring everything together and expand on previously published works.

I would be interested to hear your opinion on this idea.

PHP5 Abstraction for the Rest of US

Millions of web developers, from those just starting out with sparkling ampersands in their eyes to hardened veterans with ‘< ?php’ burned to the back of their retinas, have found a love for PHP and its possibilities but still talk in hushed whispers about the mystery and intrigue of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP.

This tutorial aims to remove some of the curly-brace-filled haze that often surrounds OOP and by the end of this lesson you will have created a class, instantiated an object, given inheritance to some children and come to understand why OOP is such a powerful tool to have at your disposal. If you have no idea what any of the above means but are shaking with a desire to find out, read on as we look at Abstraction for the rest of us.

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Clean Up Your Page, Removing Bad Behaviour

When developing websites, it’s good practice to separate behaviour (JavaScript) from structure and presentation using The Document Object Model (DOM). This indepth tutorial is all you’ll need in order to get a good understanding on how to do it.

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