Even after a few years of experience, I am still discovering more hidden powers in PHP every once in a while. If you have a look at some of my older posts, you’ll see a sort of learning curve happening. Currently I’m in the process of mastering a more OO approach, even if it’s just the database handling. There are, however, a few things I would like to share with you, things you might have been doing the long way before, and now find out that those 15 lines of code can easily be just 3 lines.