Defining a Custom Function for File Uploaders with PHP 5
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Parsing Child Nodes with the DOM XML extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008In this last chapter of the series I m going to teach you how to handle the child nodes of an XML document by way of two simple methods called hasChildNode and removeChild respectively. So let s not waste any more time in preliminaries ...
Creating an Error Handling Module for a PHP 5 File Uploader
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Welcome to the third chapter of the series Building file uploaders with PHP 5. Comprised of five approachable tutorials this series teaches you the fundamentals of constructing file uploading applications with PHP 5. It also complements the corresponding theoretical concepts with numerous hands-on examples. In this third ...
Accessing Attributes and Cloning Nodes with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008You ve probably realized that the DOM XML library can be pretty useful when working with web documents. However this extension includes some other methods which can be utilized to parse attributes of a given XML string as well as to clone nodes. Thus considering that ...
Retrieving Information on Selected Files with a PHP 5 File Uploader
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008The initial script in the first tutorial of this series lacked some important features such as the implementation of an effective error handling module and the ability to check the MIME type and size of the file being uploaded. In this second installment of the series I m ...
Handling HTML Strings and Files with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008The DOM XML extension has a few additional methods that can be used to process HTML files and strings at least at a pretty basic level. Thus this fifth part of the series will be entirely focused on explaining how to work with these methods. I will include ...
Building File Uploaders with PHP 5
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008My goal here is simply tackling file uploads from a hands-on point of view and discarding all of those additional configuration settings that must be performed in the web server. Therefore in this series of articles I m going to show you how to build some file uploading ...
Working with Multiple Document Nodes with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Welcome to the fourth article of the series A quick overview of the DOM XML extension in PHP 5. By means of easy-to-grasp hands-on examples this series equips you with a friendly guide to using the most relevant methods that come bundled with the DOM XML PHP ...
Inserting Comments and Accessing Nodes with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Welcome to the third chapter of the series A quick overview of the DOM XML extension in PHP 5. As the article s title suggests this series walks you through using the most relevant methods that come packaged with this powerful XML-related PHP extension to perform specific ...
A Quick Overview of the XML DOM Extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008To be frank how many times in your life as a PHP developer have you had to deal with XML documents Probably dozens of times particularly if you use it to develop PHP applications that implement some kind of web service or possibly when creating RSS ...
Building a Complete Web Searching Class with Yahoo Web Services and PHP 5
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Welcome to the final part of the series Using Yahoo Web Services with PHP 5. As the title claims this series walks you through the basic concepts surrounding the correct utilization of the most relevant web search services provided by Yahoo and puts the corresponding ...
Executing Destructors Manually in PHP 5
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Welcome to the final chapter of the series Understanding Destructors in PHP 5. In consonance with this article s title this series walks you through the basics of utilizing class destructors in object-based applications and also provides you with a decent number of hands-on examples so ...
Retrieving Information on Several Objects with Destructors in PHP 5
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Welcome to the fourth part of the series Understanding Destructors in PHP 5. Made up of five comprehensive tutorials this series brings to you the foundations of how to declare and implement destructors in PHP 5-driven classes. And it tackles this process from a practical point of ...
Defining Some Custom PHP Functions with Yahoo Web Services
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Welcome to the fourth installment of the series Using Yahoo Web Services with PHP 5. Made up of six approachable tutorials this series provides you with the right pointers to start using these useful web services within the context of your PHP 5-driven applications. It complements ...
Keeping Track of Objects when Using Destructors in PHP 5
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Among the improvements that were introduced into the object model of PHP 5 class destructors are quite possibly one of the easiest to learn and implement. As you may have heard a destructor is a special kind of method that is called automatically by the PHP interpreter ...
Implementing Yahoo Image Search Web Service with PHP 5
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Welcome to the third installment of the series Using Yahoo Web Services with PHP 5. If you re a PHP programmer who wants to learn how to incorporate the useful web services offered by Yahoo then this series of articles might be what you re looking ...
Implementing Destructors with Multiple Objects in PHP 5
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Welcome to the second installment of the series Understanding Destructors in PHP 5. Whether you re a PHP programmer who s making their first steps in the area of professional PHP development or an experienced developer with a solid background in object-based PHP programming this article ...
Understanding Destructors in PHP 5
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Despite the scary-sounding name destructors aren t evil. Indeed their use is often necessary to help keep your applications running properly. This article the first part of a five-part series introduces you to destructors and their use with PHP 5 programs.... Win a Dell XPS Ultra-Portable Notebook ...
Fetching Search Results as Serialized Arrays with Yahoo Web Services and PHP 5
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008In this second article of the series dealing with the implementation of some of the most useful web services offered by Yahoo with PHP 5 I ll show you how to parse the results returned by a determined web search service using a few array PHP processing functions.... Microsoft ...
Using Yahoo! Web Services with PHP 5
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008In the last few years the utilization of different web services has become very popular with web developers. This growing trend owes a lot to the development of so-called mashup applications where many of these web services are put to work seamlessly in conjunction generally using a ...
PHP: The Switch Statement and Arrays
Monday, January 7th, 2008In our last exciting adventure back in early November we braved crocodiles ravenous editors most of the PHP statements and beginning loops. In this edition we ll cover the final statement the Switch and discuss arrays. So sit back order your ...
PHP 4.4.8 Released
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.8. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for ...
MySQL Table Prefix Changer Tool in PHP
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008If you are a web developer you are undoubtedly aware that there are constant threats to your site. SQL injections are one type of threat that you must be aware of and make every attempt to prevent.... Automate Software Builds with Visual Build Pro Easily create an automated, repeatable process ...
Displaying Meaningful Error Messages when Auto Loading Classes in PHP 5
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007If you re a PHP developer who wants to learn how to load automatically into client code all of the source classes required by your object-oriented applications keep reading. In this series of articles you ll learn how to implement the magic __autoload function ...
