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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 03-01-2008
by Alan @ CIT
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Creating Custom PHP Extensions |
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This article will show you how to create a custom PHP extension for Windows using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express.
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Category: Tips & Tricks
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Posted on 01-28-2008
by Alan @ CIT
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