Book Review
PHP in Action is a book aimed at people who are comfortable coding procedural or object orientated PHP scripts. It doesn’t teach you what a variable is or what function to use if you want to connect to a database but it does teach you design patterns, best practice techniques and useful information about PHP5’s object system. If you…
Namespaces were introduced into PHP from version 5.3 onwards. They allow the developer to seperate their code into modules or groups which inturn makes the code easier to read. Namespaces prevent class and function name conflicts, it allows you to have numerous classes with the same name, as long as they are in different namespaces. Namespaces also make the old…
cURL is a library written in C that enables easy transfer of data in many different protocols including FTP, FTPS, HTTP, TELNET and LDAP. cURL does more than simply download a file. You can store cookies, upload files, use various types of authentication and tunnel all requests through a proxy. The cURL extension has been bundled with PHP since version…
In large PHP applications you typically see a “classes” directory that only contains classes which are used throughout the application (database, session management, forms etc..). A problem quickly appears: Everytime you wanted to use one of the classes, you would be forced to include() it at the top of the page. __autoload() solves this by automatically including the definition file when a…
While there are numerous posts and tutorials detailing web development tools for Windows and Mac operating systems scattered throughout the internet, there are very little for Linux. I’ll show and describe the tools I use to code PHP, Python, Javascript, HTML and CSS on a Linux platform (Ubuntu 8.10). None of these tools are distro specific.
Netbeans is a full featured…
In an attempt to sharpen up my jQuery, i purchased the book jQuery in Action
A stumbled across an amazing online app, meant to be like a CAD im guessing but then i realised the different things it could be used for. Project Draw gives you a grid to start off with, you can then place various shapes onto the grid and resize them. Further more you can add colours, text, gradients, alignments and borders which…
Adobe Air has been out for around a year, i’ve only just started playing with it. I recorded a video tutorial showing you how to setup a development (using Aptana) and make a very simple application. This method will work for all Operating Systems.
Heres Part 2 of the jQuery AJAX login tutorial. If you haven’t already, i suggest you read part 1 located here.
We are going to start writing the PHP code to process the form. This is fairly basic stuff, using $_POST to get the values from the form, then checking them against pre-assigned values, if they match, then echo approved, if they…
Every been linked to one of those pages? You know, the ones you can’t escape.. Javascript boxes start popping out of nowhere and then you hear him.. Rick Astley.. telling you how he’s feeling about you.. You’ve been Rick Rolled.
Rick Rolling has taken off as late and links are popping up all over forums, websites and IRC. What links? You say.…
Dropbox is the next big thing. Its an application that lets you sync multiple computers. For example if you have a laptop and a Desktop and want to keep some files across the two machines synchronized then this is the tool for you. The great thing is that its multiple Operating System compatible. There are currently clients for Windows and…
The popular discussion board phpbb2 is being pulled/development dropped. Security patches and support will be given until January 2009 and you will be able to download the software from the website until the 1st of Ocbober 2008 . phpBB2 has been plagued by a large number of vulnerabilities, a significant number of them were through user submitted modifications.
phpBB 3 started…
In this tutorial i’ll go over some of the frequently used Selectors and show you how to use them. Most of jQuery’s manipulations revolve around selectors, so it’s a vital skill to know.
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So.. we want to select the first td. We do this by first selecting all the td tags and then use :first to select the first td. Using jQuery’s great…
Heres a quick tutorial on how to stream internet radio, in particular shoutcast, through VLC media player. Most people stream through Windows Media Player or Winamp, but if you like Open Source applications like me, heres how you do it.
File -> Open Network Stream
Select the HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS box and in the form, enter the URL of the shoutcast server, with the port. In…
There are alot of remotely hosted systems out nowadays, Zetaboards, SMF for Free and the series of IPB 1.3.1s. If you want to edit the looks of your board you need to use Javascript since you can’t access the source PHP files. You can work your way around using getElementById and the likes, or you can use jQuery. Here are…
This isn’t Yet Another PHP Security blog post, like you see on all the other websites. This is aimed at people who run existing software such as SMF, Joomla and Wordpress.
Some people using pre-made software think they are immune to hacking attempts. 4 days ago, there was a vulnerability found in the latest version of the Coppermine Gallery software, after…
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