Posts Tagged ‘PHP’
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Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP (For Beginners)
- December 22nd, 2011
- 32 Comments
’Tis the season to be jolly, and how much jollier could we make it than with a helpful Christmas wish list crafted for your family to ensure that you get maximum presentage this holiday? In this article, we will focus on creating a very simple system that allows you to ...
Read more...A Guide To PHP Error Messages For Designers
- November 30th, 2011
- 13 Comments
PHP is widely available with inexpensive hosting plans, which makes it a popular choice for developers who write software for the Web. From big platforms, such as WordPress, down to small scripts, such as ones to display image galleries or to send forms to email, thousands of script and products ...
Read more...Introduction To URL Rewriting
- November 2nd, 2011
- 59 Comments
Many Web companies spend hours and hours agonizing over the best domain names for their clients. They try to find a domain name that is relevant and appropriate, sounds professional yet is distinctive, is easy to spell and remember and read over the phone, looks good on business cards and ...
Read more...Getting Started With PHP Templating
- October 17th, 2011
- 97 Comments
In the early days of PHP applications, “spaghetti code” was a familiar sight. Fragments of PHP code were mixed in with HTML mark-up. There were no frameworks, so Web applications were just a bunch of source files. As the PHP language matured, developers started to think about the cleanliness and ...
Read more...Getting Started With The PayPal API
- September 5th, 2011
- 52 Comments
PayPal is the most popular platform for receiving online payments today. The ease of opening a PayPal account and receiving payments compared to opening a merchant account with a traditional payment gateway is probably the number one reason for its popularity, with a close second being the comprehensive API that ...
Read more...My Favorite Programming Mistakes
- July 7th, 2011
- 100 Comments
Over my programming career, I have made a lot of mistakes in several different languages. In fact, if I write 10 or more lines of code and it works the first time, I’ll get a bit suspicious and test it more rigorously than usual. I would expect to find a ...
Read more...How To Modify A Default Joomla 1.5 Template
- July 5th, 2011
- 16 Comments
Joomla is a popular open-source content management system with a lot of possibilities. One of the strengths of Joomla is the vast number of extensions and templates available, both free and commercial. You can download and install a template in a few simple steps, although some templates are included in ...
Read more...Image Manipulation With jQuery & PHP GD
- April 5th, 2011
- 55 Comments
One of the numerous advantages brought about by the explosion of jQuery and other JavaScript libraries is the ease with which you can create interactive tools for your site. When combined with server-side technologies such as PHP, this puts a serious amount of power at your finger tips. In this article, ...
Read more...Keeping Web Users Safe By Sanitizing Input Data
- January 11th, 2011
- 42 Comments
In my last article, I spoke about several common mistakes that show up in web applications. Of these, the one that causes the most trouble is insufficient input validation/sanitization. In this article, I’m joined by my colleague Peter (evilops) Ellehauge in looking at input filtering in more depth ...
Read more...What To Do When Your Website Goes Down
- December 13th, 2010
- 78 Comments
Have you ever heard a colleague answer the phone like this: “Good afterno… Yes… What? Completely?… When did it go down?… Really, that long?… We’ll look into it right away… Yes, I understand… Of course… Okay, speak to you soon… Bye.” The call may have been followed by some cheesy ...
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