Most query-languages for databases are not as elegant or expressive as CSS.
Has anyone attempted to use CSS selectors as the query language for databases?
This idea lends itself naturally to document databases - let's say you have the following document:
<blogpost title="This Week's Crazy Idea">
<user name="Rasmus" class="author"/>
<body>
...
| <?php | |
| /** | |
| * @author Rasmus Schultz | |
| * @link http://mindplay.dk | |
| * @copyright Copyright © 2010 Rasmus Schultz | |
| * @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt | |
| */ | |
| /** | |
| * This class allows multi-threaded file downloads, and regular file downloads. |
| // let's say we have a house: | |
| $house = new House(); | |
| // let's say the house has a door: | |
| $door = new Door(); | |
| // why does it take two steps to add the door to the house? |
| <?php | |
| /* | |
| Place this script in the Yii framework folder (yii-x.y.z.rxxx/yii-phar.php) and run it | |
| to package the framework into a single phar file. | |
| In the "index.php" of your application, assuming you placed the packaged framework under | |
| your application's "protected" folder, add the following line at the top: |
| <?php | |
| class Controller extends CController | |
| { | |
| /** | |
| * @var array A stack of action-method arguments resolved by calls to resolve() from beforeAction(). | |
| */ | |
| protected $resolved = array(); | |
| /** |
| <?php | |
| /** | |
| * Namespace Migration Script | |
| * | |
| * @author Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk> | |
| * @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt | |
| * | |
| * This script will scan through an entire PHP codebase and rewrite the | |
| * scripts, adding a namespace clause based on the directory structure, |
| <?php | |
| /** | |
| * Example: strongly typed view with PHP. | |
| * | |
| * Rather than traditional "flat views", why not put your views | |
| * in a dedicated namespace and declare them as classes? | |
| * | |
| * Some advantages: | |
| * |
| <?php | |
| /** | |
| * Configuration Container | |
| * ======================= | |
| * | |
| * @author Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk> | |
| * | |
| * This is an experimental configuration-container for PHP 5.3, attempting to | |
| * solve a number of problems with configuration in general. |
| /** | |
| * Find all cells (td/th) in the column of the current cell. | |
| * (excluding rows with cells that span multiple columns.) | |
| */ | |
| (function($) { | |
| $.fn.column = function() { | |
| return $(this) | |
| .filter('th, td') |
| <?php | |
| /** | |
| * Benchmark: Reflection Performance | |
| * | |
| * Conclusion: there is no performance-gain from caching reflection-objects. | |
| */ | |
| define('NUM_TESTS', 10); |