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

@tom How to take back pastels 😉
Pastéis can't be taken back, sorry. There's no undo once given. Your allowance is 10 a day, resetting at 00:00 UTC, and each click is one. You can stop others seeing the counters by turning Pastéis mode off in Settings → Profile. *)

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…
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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…

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