My corner

 When doing OOP in PHP it can be a pain to include all the different class files. The code becomes really ugly with lots of require_once() function calls and you risk to include classes that are never used.

This is were object autoloading comes in handy. In PHP 5 it is now possible to define a functions called __autoload() which takes the name of the class as parameter. The function will be called when trying to use a class or an interface that has not been defined yet. The function could look like this

function __autoload($class_name){
require_once('/classes/'.$class_name.'.php');
}
$obj = new MyClass(); //will load MyClass from /classes/myclass.php
MyClass::getSomething() //will load MyClass from /classes/myclass.php

After having spent a few hours trying to get an image uploading script to work in php on my mac, I found out that the GD Library is not pre-installed with PHP. Why is that? I thought that the GD lib was a standard module and I know it is installed in the XAMPP package for windows. I have not installed the lib yet, but I found this page which explains a how-to, but by looking at the comments it seems that it is not as simple as it should be. People are really having dififculties getting it to work. I will try to install it when I have some more time and post my result here.