Software Development

How to programmatically create users in SAP NetWeaver Portal

This article demonstrates how to programmatically change user passwords in SAP NetWeaver Portal using available API. For applications with very high number of users, they may be better off keeping some references to portal users in their databases. For instance, an application can cache user ids in its database when new users are created. In that that way, it has readily available list of users at its disposal. Certain non-critical queries can be delegated to the RDBMS to reduce hits to the portal.

Software Development

How to use the PHP Countable Interface

Background This article demonstrates how to implement and use the Countable interface in PHP. The Countable interface is normally used in conjunction with other interfaces (i.e., Iterator, ArrayAccess, etc.) to create data structures like PHP SPL Library’s SplDoublyLinkedList and SplStack.