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10 PHP functions you (probably) never use
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 14/1/2010 beginner tutorials functions general
When scripting in PHP, we often restrict ourselves to a limited number of API functions: the common ones, like print(), header(), define(), isset(), htmlspecialchars(), etc. If some needed functionality doesn’t exist, we often write it making use of these basic components which we have in mind. The PHP API actually offers a lot of functionality, some useless and some useful; often seldom used. I have been looking through the available functions and was interested to find some really cool functions that I should have known about. Here, I share my findings.
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Transforming XML with PHP and XSL
in PHP added by lornajane, on 13/1/2010 advanced tutorials php5 xml xsl
Advanced tutorial on using XSL with PHP - including examples, tips and links to resources. A must-read for anyone needing to transform XML.
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Zend Framework on a shared host
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 10/1/2010 framework oo programming php5 zend framework
When you deploy a Zend Framework website to a shared host, you usually cannot change the DocumentRoot to point at the public/ folder of the website. As a result the URL to the website is now http://www.example.com/public/. This doesn't look very professional, so we'd like to remove it. The easiest way, given a ZF project created using Zend_Tool.
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Writing A Simple Twitter Client Using the PHP Zend Framework's OAuth Library (Zend_Oauth)
in PHP added by ducani, on 4/1/2010 oauth library twitter client zend framework
In this article I'll explore how to writea quick Twitter client so you can post tweets (those short messages of less than 140 characters) once authorised across the OAuth protocol.
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Understanding MVC in PHP
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 30/12/2009 advanced tutorials mvc oo programming
This article series (continued in Implementing MVC in PHP: The Controller, Implementing MVC in PHP: The View, and Implementing MVC in PHP: The Model) demonstrates how to build an MVC web framework using PHP 5. This article covers the basics of MVC web frameworks, building the foundation classes for a framework that the other three articles in this series will build.
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Port Scanning and Service Status Checking in PHP
in PHP added by ducani, on 26/12/2009 advanced tutorials port scanning service status
While building web applications, it's often important to keep an eye on the other services running on your server. Having access to the current status of public servers can empower your applications to make decisions and respond to problems automatically.
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Writing a daemon in PHP
in PHP added by besx, on 22/12/2009 daemon linux php5
Many browser based games need to run processes in the background to fulfill special tasks. Think of a chatsever that handles incoming messages and broadcasts them to all connected clients. For such a purpose one cannot rely on user-executed scripts or cronjobs. We need an approach that runs a set of commands all the time as a background process on the server. This is where daemons come in handy.
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Setting up your Git repositories for open source projects at GitHub
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 15/12/2009 advanced tutorials git github version control
Like a lot of projects in the Ruby on Rails world, the Insoshi social networking platform uses Git and GitHub to manage its open source development and contributions. In setting up the repositories for Insoshi, I've applied the version control experience I gained at Discover, where I was technical lead for the software configuration management (SCM) team. Since some aspects of our setup aren’t obvious if you haven't managed large projects before, we at Insoshi decided to share the details so that other GitHub projects might benefit as well.
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Facebook style photo tagging with jQuery, Ajax and Joomla
in PHP added by prodevtips, on 28/11/2009 AJAX advanced tutorials oo programming php5
Facebook style photo tagging with jQuery, Ajax and Joomla
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jQuery form plugin and PHP file uploads
in PHP added by finalwebsites, on 26/11/2009 AJAX forms jquery upload
jQuery and the form plugin are great tools to create Ajax powered contact or feedback forms. This tutorial shows how to use the jQuery form plugin and gives an example how-to create a form including form validation an upload function.
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Never write the same code twice: Dependency Injection
in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 20/11/2009 dependency injection oo programming php5
Is Dependency Injection difficult? Is it hard to do? Certainly it provides value. Particularly in Php, but also in other object-oriented languages, Dependency Injection gives steroids to the process of class reuse, designing components as loosely coupled objects.
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Debugging PHP with Xdebug
in PHP added by betacoder, on 13/11/2009 debugging php notepad++ xdebug
The Xdebug is the extension for PHP that helps debugging PHP scripts by providing a lot of valuable debug information. Using the Xdebug you can debug your scripts in the Notepad++ and other PHP IDEs.
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PHP on the D-Bus
in PHP added by CalEvans, on 10/11/2009 advanced tutorials oo programming php5 podcast
The D-BUS Inter Process Communication mechanism is the basis for many system-related functionality on Linux-based systems. Both GNOME, KDE, as well as the Open Moko Linux computing platform use it extensively for everything related to talking to services and hardware. Skype, as well as other applications, provide D-BUS APIs as well. In this presentation I will be presenting a PHP/D-BUS integration to allow PHP to talk to D-BUS aware applications. I will demonstrate controlling Skype from PHP, as well as the implementation of PHP-GTK based applications on the OpenMoko to talk to, and use the different hardware services it offers, such as GSM and GPS. This talk should show a few things that people don’t really associate PHP with, and thus provide some insight that PHP’s strength is not only on the Web.
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Precision color searching with Gmagick and Amazon Elastic MapReduce
in PHP added by CalEvans, on 3/11/2009 advanced tutorials cloud gmagick php5
In this article we look at combining Amazon's cloud tools, PHP and Gmagick to perform color searching on photographs.
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