If you have ever tried to obtain a formatted value in PHP, it is likely you did so with one of printf, sprintf of vsprintf functions. In general, these utilities accept a formatting string and one or more arguments. php.net has some good examples and descriptions on how they ...

This article provides two more examples of PHP functions which employ linear recursion. They are min() and max(). I wrote them partly for fun, but also to carry out a basic speed test on a piece of interpreted PHP code, results of which I hoped, would give me some insight into ...

In this article I give a couple of PHP implementations of popular Maths sequences and series. Broadly, each piece of code given returns nth term of a sequence / series. Each of the implementations depends on linear recursion. Each of the functions a is a static methods of class ...

When recently entertaining myself with recursion in PHP I have come across a problem which asked to find whether a given word was a character-unit palindrome or not. I guess, a word of explanation on character-unit palindromes is needed in this place now. Basically, they are ...