It's been five months since I last wrote an article for the LAMP area of this site. What have you guys been up to since? I know some of you took the bull by the horns and are now well versed in PHP. Were the rest of you waiting for me to get round to the "advanced" section? Well, I'm making a start on that now.

When I say advanced I am merely talking about things we take for granted with Domino. Attachments for example. Stick a File Upload Control on a form and you're done! In PHP it's not quite so easy. I've added a file upload to the PHP journal app.'s form and will start/finish an article some time this week, hopefully.

If you look at the form, notice that I've limited the size of uploads to 10KB. Remember this article I wrote a while back describing a way to do this with Domino? Wasn't easy was it! With PHP it's as simple as one line of code:

So, whereas, with Domino, it's easy to add the functionality as a whole, it's tricky to do anything beyond the basics. Don't let me get in to a whole "Isn't PHP better than Domino" speel. There's no point in that. It's a case of "horses for courses". Personally I prefer PHP, as you all know, because I can do what I like with it. There might well be some work up front but it's worth it. Plus, once you've coded the logic once you can use it over and over - maybe even writing a class to handle it all.