Tag: php

  • Creating an Instance of an Object without Calling Its Constructor in PHP

    Today, I stumbled upon an article in a local PHP developers group. It was about creating an instance of an object without calling its constructor (as mentioned in post title). At first, the idea made no sense to me. Because, constructor method is run every time an object is instantiated, this property is the whole…

  • Storing MAC address in a MySQL database

    Today, I encountered a problem: storing MAC address in a MySQL database. MAC addresses (something like “01:23:45:67:78:AB”) contain six hexadecimal (base 16) values. This means each hexadecimal field can store 256 (2 to the power of 8, in base 10) values. It’s 8 bits (= 1 byte) for each value. 6 field x 8 bit…