With a year like 2009 behind us, it’s inevitable that a curiously large number of PHP developers are currently in a state some like to describe as “funemployment.” It’s unfortunate, in a way, that so many in the community are currently looking for jobs—although it’s interesting to see that a large number of the folks [...]
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Programming you’re doing it wrong
March 12th, 2010In an opinion piece posted to the php|architect site Marco Tabini suggests that we (as developers) are doing it wrong as we move further and further away from the pragmatic side of programming into the abstract. No matter how advanced the techniques that we use, there is always something that we could be doing better. [...]
＋Read the rest of this post＋Using ini files for PHP application settings
March 12th, 2010At dealnews we have three tiers of servers. First is our development servers, then staging and finally production. The complexity of the environment increases at each level. On a development server, everything runs on the localhost: mysql, memcached, etc. At the staging level, there is a dedicated MySQL server. In production, it gets quite wild [...]
＋Read the rest of this post＋PHP CAPTCHA Library for reCAPTCHA
March 8th, 2010The reCAPTCHA PHP Library provides a simple way to place a CAPTCHA on your PHP website, helping you stop bots from abusing it. The library wraps the reCAPTCHA API. The library also includes an API for Mailhide, a way to wrap email addresses in a reCAPTCHA, hiding them from spammers. Get more info of it
＋Read the rest of this post＋PHP mail() Function
March 6th, 2010PHP Mail Introduction The mail() function allows you to send emails directly from a script. Requirements For the mail functions to be available, PHP requires an installed and working email system. The program to be used is defined by the configuration settings in the php.ini file. Installation The mail functions are part of the PHP [...]
＋Read the rest of this post＋Migrating legacy PHP 4 applications to PHP 5
March 1st, 2010As Ivo Jansch pointed out on the Ibuildings blog, there’s barely a month left till security fixes are discontinued for PHP 4. While support for PHP 4 officially ended last December, security updates were offered until 08-08-08. Most major web hosts have been phasing out PHP 4 support, but many legacy applications built with PHP [...]
＋Read the rest of this post＋Brief Introduction to PHP
February 16th, 2010PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, better known as PHP, is a highly popular, server-side scripting language that can be embedded directly into HTML coding. PHP can do anything that CGI can do, such as process form data and auto generate dynamic content, but PHP can do much more. It can be used on all major operating systems [...]
＋Read the rest of this post＋Learning PHP at W3schools.com
February 3rd, 2010There are many online resouces or websites available where you can learn php. Today we’ll introduce w3schools.com to you. If you’re a newbie in PHP programming then we highly recommend you learn php at w3schools.com We’re not advertising on this but we did realize w3schools.com is a good place for new guys to learn php [...]
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