Martin Streicher, Editor in Chief, Linux Magazine, posted a new tutorial on IBM developerWorks on how to create a custom search engine for your website using Sphinx, PHP, and MySQL. Sphinx is a free open-source SQL full-text search engine under...
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August 11, 2007
July 2, 2007
Zoe Slattery posted a step by step tutorial on IBM developerworks with instructions for building PHP6 and PHP5 for windows. Certainly the steps are more easy for *nix users, but for windows you can download the requirements, customize the build...
June 28, 2007
HTML Purifier is a new PHP tool which aims to help you clean up your web pages from malicious codes and keep it standards-compliant. I think it's an extremely useful tool for all PHP projects to help getting their projects...
June 18, 2007
It happen that we need to do some manual manipulations in MySQL databases, to clean data and fix things. One of my databases here have a username field which is not unique, and so full of duplicates. Don't ask me...
May 29, 2007
After the latest great article on defensive programming techniques, Manuel Lemos posted today more good practice for defensive programming. This will give you a bunch of great techniques to prevent a curse from taking down your business. Today's tips :...
January 26, 2007
This is a very interesting guide I have found to convert from PHP to Perl and vice versa. I find it pretty useful because many times I have to work with Perl and PHP together and run in confusion. The...
January 14, 2007
After a long absence, IloveJackDaniels posted a new HTML cheat sheet to close the collection. Well sometimes it's good to have a reminder of some HTML, especially tags that you don't usually use. Available in PNG and PDF if you...
December 10, 2006
László Zsidi implemented an interesting alternative for captchas to make it much more difficult to break if not impossible using animated gifs. The PHP class generates a sequence of animated images, assembled with in a GIF animation file, to make...
November 25, 2006
I've written Process Killer class two years ago, today I need it to solve a very urgent issue on my server and just noticed that there is a bug to process command names. Simple change, now if the command you...
November 18, 2006
Wez have a new post on his blog on HTTP post from PHP without Curl. The code is using fopen() mixed with stream_context_create() to make post request, then stream_get_contents() to retrieve data. Headers are optional but if not set, Content-Type...
