Editing ID3 tags for MP3s -- such as you would find on an online music site, for example -- may seem to be no big deal. If you've ever had to edit lots of them at the same time, however, it's a different story. Fortunately, there's an efficient way to do it that consumes less time and resources than you might fear. Best of all, even a beginner can do it.
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Go to any PHP help forum and you’ll be sure to see many bad practices, innocent misconceptions and blatant no nos. None of us are perfect and none of us started off writing great code. We have all had that moment where we looked back on a script that we wrote years ago and thought “what the hell was I thinking?”.
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I am working with sunshop shopping cart and my client needs seo friendly urls instead of Query string(parameters) passed in urls. By default in sunshop shopping cart, URLS are not seo friendly. I searched for url rewriting options but finally i found how to do make seo friendly urls in sunshop shopping cart.
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Firebug is an exceptional tool that can increase your productivity many fold. However it is amazing to see a large number of web developers working without it. This article covers essential overview, useful tips and links to some really awesome resources that will help you master this wonderful tool.
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The Firebug Working Group proudly announces the availability of Firebug 1.5.0! After more than 6 months of development and 36 alpha and beta releases, the new Firebug is ready.
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Joomla! is often paralleled to point-and-click presentation software, such as Impress or PowerPoint, in terms of ease of use. Granted, Joomla! makes it extremely easy to build a site having no knowledge of its internal working, or even what HTML is.
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If you've just started using the Yahoo Site Explorer Inbound Links API and want to know how far you can take it, keep reading. This three-part series will show you how to build an application that can help you track your links.
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I don't know if it's just me, or whether everyone in software development finds issue tracking software frustrating and/or broken in some way. They're all either way too complicated to set up, configure or use (the Bugzilla's or the Jira's), or have annoying "features" (such as Trac's you-lose-your-edits-if-someone-else-changed-something).
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We mentioned a few weeks ago that we were going to be holding a free webinar on January 19th, featuring some of the leading Subversion committers. Letting you know about some of the future developments that are being worked on in the coming versions of the Subversion Project.
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Welcome to the final part of a seven part series on building polymorphs in PHP. In a friendly fashion, this series gets you started constructing polymorph classes specifically in PHP 5. It shows you how to accomplish this by using first interfaces, then parent classes, and finally a proper combination of both.
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HTML 5 provides some great new features for web designers who want to code readable, semantically-meaningful layouts. However, support for HTML 5 is still evolving, and Internet Explorer is the last to add support. In this tutorial, we’ll create a common layout using some of HTML 5’s new semantic elements, then use JavaScript and CSS to make our design backwards-compatible with Internet Explorer.
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Couple of months back, i was given a revamping project for one of our client’s car rental booking portal…in that his primary requirement was to remove the “PHPSESSID” parameter and value that appears in the URL’s, even though he didn’t know much about it, someone told him its not so good having it in the urls…
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The Simple Cloud API is an open source project providing common PHP interfaces for File Storage, Document Storage, and Simple Queue cloud services. It will enable you to easily connect your application with a new service without having to learn their specific API.
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One of the most important structural patterns is the Composite one: its goal is managing a hierarchy of objects where both leaf objects and composition of other objects conform to a common interface. This hierarchy is usually constituted by part-whole relationships (often composition in the strict sense or aggregation), and it can be viewed as a tree.
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I’ve never really got the hang of PHP frameworks and have tended to use my own custom built CMS but even with this I still find myself writing the same code over and over again. In the past I’ve dabbled with CakePHP and the Zend Framework and not really got very far, so a few days ago I downloaded CodeIgniter. Although I’m extremely new to this I was pretty blown away by the simplicity of setting
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