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Over the next few articles I write, I hope to delve into the depths of PHP and some of the ways it can best be utilized. To get started, we’ll begin with object oriented PHP programming. If this concept is new to you, have no fear. As long as you have an understanding of PHP in general, it is really rather simple, especially if we step through it bit by bit.
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In this tutorial we’re going to be creating a widget for our web pages which allows visitors to search the contents of our site. We’ll be using jQuery to pass the search term to the back-end, and to receive and display the results. We’ll be using PHP to search for the term in a local site and then return any matching URLs back to the page as a JSON object.
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So everywhere you look, you see “jQuery this†and “jQuery thatâ€. For the last year or so, this library has been the darling of the Javascript world. But do you feel that you just can’t seem to learn the dang thing? Do you hate how the existing tutorials assume that you know WAY more than you actually do? If this rings true for you, I can help.
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Utilizing the PHP programming language we show you how to create an infinitely extendable web crawler in under 5 minutes, collecting images and links.
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You're probably wondering why should i bother if we have TwitterCounter to show us the followers, well what if i don't like the way it shows them what if i wanna do a counter with my own graphics , well i'm gonna show you how.
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htaccess is a configuration file used by most web hosts to configure how the URL's look and how the website actually behaves. htaccess makes URLs much more user friendly and easier on the eyes. The prettier URL is nicer to look at, it better explains where the user is, what they're reading and even better for marketers
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If you are working on an application dealing with words such as a search engine optimization app, you will most likely need to strip or ignore common words, this is how.
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This series of articles is about implementing a nested tree using PHP and PostgreSQL. The theory and code in these articles also applies to MySQL, not just PostgreSQL.
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Have you ever wanted to let a user download an image from your site without having to right click and choose 'Save'? Well this post will show you how. See by default, browsers render images within the browser rather than displaying the download dialogue every time a user clicks on a link to an image. So how do we override this when we want the user to be able to download the file directly rathe
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A Microsoft browser plug-in might seem an odd target for the PHP developer, more used to working with open source platforms such as Linux, Apache and the MySQL database server. However there is much about Microsoft Silverlight that makes it a good match to such technologies
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Scraping websites with XPath is very easy (read here), but how to scrape user’s friends list from social website if it can be viewed only when user is logged in?
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A simple tutorial for how to build an AJAX based login system..
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In any decent sized project, the more times you commit code, the bigger the chance is that you will break something. Call it the law of unintended consequences or the butterfly effect, but the fact is that in complex systems, we cannot anticipate all the effects of a change. To deal with this we can either adopt the “release and pay†method of software control, or we can setup systems to help us
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Memcache is a tool which can cache objects in memory – and is often used for speeding up dynamic web applications. PHP has a built-in module for working with memcache, and its a simple and convenient way of introducing caching to your application.
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Recursion. It can be a bit to get your head around at first but it can often create a lightweight, robust and elegant solution. This is a pretty basic example of recursion using PHP which can display a list based tree of a catalogue or any sort of data which has parents, children and end nodes like products.
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