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IntroductionJohn runs a small marketing firm. He, along with five other employees, manages most of the company's operations from sales to customer service. When John decided to use Internet as a marketing medium to attract more customers, he knew he didn't have the expertise to build a website himself nor could …
Congratulations – you've landed your first big enterprise client. Now you need to do what you said you'd do, and make everyone happy in the process. This article will show you how to use techniques for visibility and verification to do most things – setting up processes and systems, doing QA …
Back in the olden days, using PHP to interact with external data sources was extremely tedious, requiring a bit of luck, a bit of magic and a lot of repetitive code. One option was to use the fopen()function with URL wrappers automagical wrappers that would detect that you didn’t want to …
What’s New Compared to PHP4This article only covers the parts of the Zend Engine that are interesting for extension developers. Explaining the whole list of changes would make up another article, thus non-relevant parts are not covered in detail.Writing extensions in general is very much the same as for PHP4, only …
In some situations, especially when creating content with text editors or when not so experienced users participate in a project, it is not an easy task to prevent special characters in the content. If this happens the page will contain wrong characters or will even on it for some viewers around …
Hello WorldIt really has to be done; the almost obligatory “Hello World” first example: Yes, you read that right, it’s HTML. Well, that’s not strictly true, because this is an XML based format, the above is XHTML. XHTML 1.0 is the reformulation of HTML 4.01 as XML. This basically means stricter …
Ming is a library, released under the LGPL open-source license,which provides an interface for the creation and output of Macromedia Flash files.Ming provides many advantages over other libraries of the same sort. Being open-source,Ming is available for any platform to which the code is portable; it is actively developed and it …
COM BasicsSome understanding of the COM Architecture is useful for working with components.Basically a COM component is a piece of software that exposes its functionality through well defined interfaces that adhere to a binary standard. A component can be referenced by either a Global Unique Identifier (GUID) or a more user …
If PHP can be considered a major Galactic Civilization, then this column may be an indication that we are somewhere between the Sophistication phase and the unmentioned ”Collapse of Civilization” phase.Think of this series of articles as the lead in the pipes of Rome, the mercury in the haberdasher’s trade – …
Always wanted to know why the PHP developers disabled register_globals by default, or why they started bundling the GD library? Here’s your chance!In our magazine we give you, our readers, the opportunity to ask a real PHP guru what you always wanted to ask. This, of course, is not meant as …
So you’ve finished your project, and it all works.Just like your boss and your client expected it to work.Everybody happy, all good, let’s forget all about it , right? Yes.In a perfect world.The week after you had the champagne party to celebrate the successful finish of the project, the client makes …
Following on from the first part of the article in Issue 2, this part shows you how to implement your own wrapped streams for custom protocols that can be used to access a variety of data sources via a regular fopen()call, implement your own virtual filesystem and tie it into regular …
One of the key factors of PHP’s tremendous success was the very easy to use extensibility API.The simplicity of adding new functionality to the PHP engine, such as support for a new database or a new protocol, enabled a wide audience of developers to join in the project. The purpose of …
IntroductionThe Web has been evolving since its inception. However, it is now evolving at an extremely rapid pace. This is due not only to the increased adoption of broadband but also because of new technologies available to developers. Prior to 2005 common methods for storing data that span across every language. …
Why Scripting in a Box?To install WAMP stack (LAMP on Windows, that is), in the early days, you had to download each component individually (remember 2 kbit/sec?), then spend hours, even days, going through .conf and .ini files, reading the comments, huntingon Altavista for tips or hints, feeling lost and discouraged. …
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Open Source Web Development with LAMP
Derick Rethans
This book on LAMP is not primarily focused on PHP, actually quite a small part is devoted to PHP.It starts with a very brief explanation in …
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MySQL Cookbook, Second Edition
Paul DuBois
A handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, this Cookbook addresses specific questions in using MySQL. You'll find dozens of short, focused pieces of …