Collins Fabian
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Collins Fabian
@CollinsFabian
CS student @ EBSU | Co-founder
@RexLLins \w
@Terrific789 | Web Dev (PHP, JS, HTMX) | I build, break & rebuild for fun.
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PHP developers shouldn't have to abandon their stack to build native Android apps.
I'm building an SDK that compiles a subset of PHP into Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with reusable components and UI generators—no WebView or bundled PHP runtime.
Tue, Oct 27
Mon, Oct 26
How is PDO better than mysqli for a dev that sticks to just MySQL?
Contrary opinion: it isn't, unless you're using simple tables of simple data. Then absolutely use PDO. But once you extend into geographic queries or JSON style structured data queries, you are locking into a flavor of SQL anyway, and are tying your code to a database. If that…
MySQLi is exclusive to MySQL, supports procedural and object-oriented programming, uses only positional parameters (?), and by default does not include error handling.
PDO offers support for multiple databases. It is 100% object-oriented. It supports both positional (?) and…
Blade-inspired PHP template engine — compile-to-PHP with cached output.
https://github.com/CollinsFabian/Zing
GitHubGitHub - CollinsFabian/Zing: Blade-inspired PHP template engine — compile-to-PHP with cached output.Blade-inspired PHP template engine — compile-to-PHP with cached output. - CollinsFabian/Zing
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