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Blog comments and forum posts are traditionally the worst place to post code, but unfortunately are the frequent hosts of code for developers like us. Many developers choose to post links to more dev-friendly environments like GitHub instead, but there's a certain disconnect that comes with posting an external resource for something that would be much more useful in an internal capacity. Using so
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80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turn reduces the number of HTTP requests required to render the page. This is the key to faster pages. One way to reduce the number of components in the page is to simplify the page’s
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Data driven web sites are da bomb, in my not-so-humble opinion. The ability to drive information through a slim passage and have that information display, in various ways, is without a doubt amazing. Anything can be manipulated, altered, structured, added, removed and decided before it even hits the screen. Systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal have had their day in the sun. On the horizon are e
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1.They’re escape sequences. n is a newline and r is a carriage return. In Windows most text editors have a newline as rn and on unix it’s n. 2.r is the carriage return n is the newline These are available in many other languages aside from PHP. 3.They’re “carriage return” and “line feed” respectively. Typically on Windows, you need both together to represent a line terminator: “rn” whereas on mos
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Many developers use md5 or rand() function to generate the unique id in php, Which is actually not a good practice under some senario. The best technique is to use the pre given php function whic is uniqid()
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Currently PHP is one of the most popular programming languages for the web. But like other scripting languages, PHP also has few security holes that can make our application insecure. In this tutorial, we will take a look at useful tips to help you avoid some common PHP security problems.
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Every web developer should keep useful code snippets in a personal library for future reference. Today, I have compiled the most interesting and useful PHP code snippets I have added to my personal snippet library the last 3 months.
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Yesterday an ex colleague tweeted something that captured my attention.
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If you are running multi-authored wordpress blog, and you are having issues with sharing Admin privilege with your editors and wordpress theme designers, then you must disable theme change in wordpress blog. Sometimes it happens that your blog designers, without consulting you changes your blog design by changing the wordpress theme.
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There seems to be a widespread misconception in the PHP community about the performance characteristics of single quotes vs. double quotes in string literals. I always thought this meme has long since been proven codswallop, but today I ran into a guy in ##php who was convinced there was a significant difference.
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MODx Revolution support very easy and flexible configuration of system from admin panel.Article is about to set up other resource as frontpage rather than existing one.
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If you have been developing facebook applications recently then you probably know what facebook query language (FQL) is. For newbies, FQL is facebook version of sql for extracting data from facebook database about users.
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This article will show you the trick to set your Gravatar as your Favicon.
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Calling a soap service with php, and building and then passing an XML document as a parameter.
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Here is the quick article which shows the difference between two PHP functions which are isset() and array_key_exists().
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If you're having problems with server load due to high volume of traffic you can try getting fast cheap web hosting for your sites. Although web hosting is part of the solution you also need to consider other bandwidth heavy website applications.
