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Using Search Engine Friendly URLs for your Dynamic Pages

in PHP added by clearnetwork, on 29/7/2008 beginner tutorials mod rewrite seo

"Search Engine Friendly URLs" or "User Friendly URLs" are a much better way of constructing your URLs for dynamic pages. In this article I will discuss some basic ways of doing this, with a little help from mod_rewrite.

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Generating Search Engine Friendly Titles for your URL

in PHP added by clearnetwork, on 29/7/2008 beginner tutorials seo

For most dynamic websites you will want to create "Search Engine Friendly" or "User Friendly" URLs, rather than using ugly and meaningless strings or IDs to reference your content. The way you interpret the URLs and use them to get your content is for another article and I won't go into that right now, what I want to talk about is how to turn your page titles into versions that can be used in your URL.

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Bot Detection with PHP

in PHP added by charliepage, on 21/7/2008 bot detection bots general

Bots or Crawlers, are basically search engines crawling around the internet. This is how you get your pages on search engines (well, a major way). Bot Detection isn't something super vital, but if your CMS or website already has practically everything, then you need Bot Detection.

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PHP Thumbnail Generation Script

in PHP added by clearnetwork, on 18/7/2008 advanced tutorials gd images

This tutorial focuses on a thumbnail generation script. Rather than generating a smaller representation of the image, it cuts out a section of the photograph to create an obscure snapshot of the photo itself.

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Random Password Generation

in PHP added by clearnetwork, on 15/7/2008 beginner tutorials general random security

A common feature found on many websites upon user registration are random passwords. This tutorial will walk you through a script that generates a random password to a given length.

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The Truth About PHP Variables

in PHP added by porteightyeight, on 8/7/2008 advanced tutorials internal memory

This article examines how PHP handles passing of variables internally, as well as how this relates to memory usage. This information is can be very useful for any professional PHP developer as it shows how passing variables by reference will normally result in more (not less) memory being used.

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PHP framework comparison benchmarks

in PHP added by goodphptutorials, on 3/7/2008 benchmark framework

The tests were run on a 1.8Ghz AMD sempron computer with 512Mb RAM running Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) Desktop.

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How to encrypt user info with php

in PHP added by jinxit, on 2/7/2008 encryption md5 salt security

If you run a serious webpage where you save login information for your members to a database it is generally a very good idea to perform some kind of encryption on these password to prevent the information to be shared in case your datebase would be hacked. This tutorial shows you how to do this.

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Combining jQuery with the Zend Framework and Smarty

in PHP added by prodevtips, on 25/6/2008 AJAX advanced tutorials php5

Showcasing how jQuery can be used in combination with the most popular templating engines for PHP and a popular PHP framework with a simple example.

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Extending Zend DB Table

in PHP added by prodevtips, on 19/6/2008 advanced tutorials oo programming php5

Shows how you can extend the Zend DB Table which is an important part of the popular PHP framework, in order to do less database coding.

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News: PHP for Google App Engine in the works?

in PHP added by porteightyeight, on 19/6/2008 google news

A recent conversation with a Zend employee revealed some good news for PHP and Google App Engine...

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Custom RSS 2.0 Content Feeds using OOP

in PHP added by aaronson, on 10/6/2008 content management oo programming rss xml

With WEB 2.0 fast approaching we are scurrying to make our sites ready for the change. Adding syndicated content to get a deeper reach in to this web is one way to get started. In this tutorial i will show you how to make your own RSS 2.0 content Feed using Object Orientated Programming for your website. At the end of the tutorial there will also be the full script for you to learn by example or just cut out the middle man and use it.

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Check username availability in AJAX and PHP using JQuery

in PHP added by phphungry, on 6/6/2008 AJAX database jquery

This tutorial explains how to check username availability in ajax and php using jquery's fading effect for showing the various messages...

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PHP: Be Notified When Google Crawls Your Site

in PHP added by adzeds, on 3/6/2008 beginner tutorials crawl general google mysql php5

Have you ever wanted to know when Google crawls your website? Well now you can using a simple PHP script which emails you everytime GoogleBot crawls your site.

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Search Engine Friendly URLs with mod_rewrite and templates

in PHP added by aaronson, on 29/5/2008 mod_rewrite search engine friendly urls simple template

You see them all over the internet, search engine friendly URLs are becoming very popular. There are a couple ways to achieve a search engine friendly URL but the easiest way to implement them is to use mod_rewrite in your .htaccess file. In this tutorial you will learn how to read and call a search engine friendly URL on your website using a gateway type template script.

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