2 Cheat Sheets to Help You Look Productive on a Monday Morning.

p. Spring break is over in most of the world and everybody is heading back to school/work with bleary eyes and a head pounding from a week of late night coding parties. (What? That’s not how you spent your Spring Break? What kind of programmer are you?) So to help you at least feign productivity until your gray-matter gets it’s stuff together, I’ve dug up 2 PHP related cheat sheets.

p. First, (in order of how I found them) here is a “PCRE”:http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php “cheat sheet”:http://www.phpguru.org/article.php?ne_id=67. If you are like me (and pray to the gods that you are not) RegEx in all it’s forms are a black art. I’m always suspicious of my buddy ‘”G”:http://www.onemogin.com/blog/’ because when I ask him a RegEx question, he just spits out the answer. Personally, I think he’s made a deal with the devil. In reality he could just have one of these sheets handy. If you don’t do RegEx often enough to be an expert at it, you might want to print this out and staple it to a co-worker’s back.

p. Second, (and I’m sure this one won’t ignite **any** flame wars) I found a “Perl”:http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1515187 to “PHP”:http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/02/21/a-pro-php-rant/ “conversion chart”:http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/%7Erkline/perl2php/ . OK, this is not so much a full-blown conversion chart as it is a helper guide for Perl programmers making the switch. It’s totally useless for going the other way so don’t even try. (You hear me? I said DON’T! Don’t make me roll up a newspaper and smack you on the nose) it is well thought out, well laid out and pretty easy to follow. So if you are a Perl coder making the jump or just forced to maintain some PHP code and need a helping hand, this will be helpful.

p. Oh hey, I found this one on “digg”:http://digg.com/programming/PCRE_Cheat_Sheet . If you like it, I’m sure the author would like it if you dugg it.

p. That’s all for today. Now to help your headache, go take 2 “PHP blogs”:http://www.planet-php.org/ and check back in the morning.

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