Parsing Child Nodes with the DOM XML extension in PHP 5
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008SQL and CGI with Perl and DBI
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008In this conclusion to a four-part series on Perl and DBI you will learn about SQL queries and DBI using Perl and DBI with CGI and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book em Beginning Perl em Apress ...
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 ...
Creating a Database with Perl and DBI
Thursday, March 20th, 2008In this second part of a four-part series on Perl and the DBI you ll learn how to create a database and how to use a collection of very important commands. This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book em Beginning Perl em by ...
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 ...
SSH with Twisted
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Twisted is a framework for networked applications. In this article you ll learn how to use the Secure Shell SSH with Twisted to accomplish a variety of useful tasks. This article is excerpted from chapter 1 of the book em Twisted Network Programming Essentials ...
Working with Attributes and CDATA Sections with the DOM XML Extension
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Undeniably one of the most remarkable strengths of PHP is its robust set of extensions. They provide developers with the right tools to build a huge variety of web applications with minor hassles. And this characteristic is particularly evident when it comes to working with XML documents since ...
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 ...
Using Yahoo Web Services to Perform Searches with an Object-Oriented Approach
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008If you re a PHP developer who wants to take the first steps toward building web applications that interact with specific web services in this article series you ll find an approachable guide to implementing some of the most useful search services provided by Yahoo by using a ...
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 ...
Python: More Fun with Strings
Monday, February 4th, 2008In our last article we left off discussing ways to manipulate strings in Python like concatenating repeating escape characters and so forth. In this episode we will pick up where we left off and learn some more ways to work with strings starting with the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Standards-compliant Link Targets with Wordpress
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Wordpress is an extremely popular site blogging software written in PHP. It does a great job of creating standards-compliant web sites. Plus it s a good idea to continue with that effort when adding modifications.... Automate Software Builds with Visual Build Pro Easily create an automated, repeatable process for building and ...
Working with Colors in OpenGL for Game Programming with SDL
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Colors magically bring a scene to life. No matter how interesting the plot is how engrossing the special effects are if the color combinations are not accurate or the colors are tepid the liveliness of the game suffers. In short it is the combination of and ...
