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| Traverse Directories the Easy Way with Glob |
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There is a powerful yet somewhat unheard of function in PHP titled glob(). Many beginners and intermediates alike struggle with the traversing of directories. Acquiring the directories contents and returning them in a readable format. If only they
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Category: IO Streams
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Posted on 11-28-2007
by Wildhoney
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| Understanding the Life of a Session |
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One of the most vast misconceptions in the PHP world is how sessions really do work. I'm fairly confident most of us know how to start sessions, terminate sessions, regenerate session IDs and easily pass data from 1 page to another. But do you really know
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Category: Data Store
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Posted on 11-28-2007
by Wildhoney
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| Using Exceptions to Provide Better Feedback |
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Within this article, we'll be taking a closer inspection of exceptions, as requested by the lovely Haris. This will be a basic exceptions article and so I won't be going over how to extend onto the exceptions class to model your own - otherwise we'll get
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Category: Error Handling
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Posted on 11-28-2007
by Wildhoney
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| Introducing the PHP Command Line Interface |
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This is a short article designed to introduce you to the PHP Command Line Interface (CLI) and some of the core differences you need to be aware of when developing for the command line compared to a website
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Category: Command Line Interface (CLI)
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Posted on 01-10-2008
by Alan @ CIT
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| Checking Input with Zend_Validate |
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This article shows you how to take advantage of the Zend_Validate class from the Zend Framework to ensure that all input to your PHP applications is what you are expecting.
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Category: Tips & Tricks
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Posted on 01-12-2008
by Alan @ CIT
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| Sending Emails with the Zend Framework |
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Many PHP applications require the ability to send emails nowadays from simple plain-text emails confirming a registration to advanced HTML newsletters.
PHP allows us to send emails using the mail() function but this can quickly get complex when you beg
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Category: IO Streams
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Posted on 02-28-2008
by Alan @ CIT
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| Database Abstraction with Zend_Db - Part 1 |
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The Zend Framework provides a powerful database abstraction layer in the form of the Zend_Db component. This tutorial will be looking at the Zend_Db component in closer detail.
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Category: Data Store
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Posted on 02-29-2008
by Alan @ CIT
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| Captcha and the Alternatives |
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A short guide to the various Captcha systems and viable alternatives that you can use for securing your web application forms
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Category: Security & Permissions
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Posted on 12-31-2007
by Alan @ CIT
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