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When it comes to coding standards, I prefer the Allman indentation style; opening and closing braces should be in the same column for maximum readability. This goes back to my background in Pascal where the function's begin and end statements are aligned in the same column. But for consistency's sake, I'm trying to adopt the Zend Framework coding standards. It's still a bit of a struggle.

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Archive for March, 2005

Creating bitmap fonts with PHP

The GD library enables PHP the to load custom fonts (with imageloadfont()) and add text to images. But it can also be leveraged to create interesting effects — particularly when one uses PHP to first create a custom font.
In order to be able to create a custom font we need to find out more details […]