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Phpmag.net Is Now Phpinfo.com
S&S Media, a leading cross communications media house, serving information technology clients across Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, proudly announced the launch of a brand new portal: …
Advantages of Supplier Relationship Management
In today's demand-driven economy, companies can gain competitive advantage by connecting the strategic practices of sourcing with the operational tactics of purchasing and collaboration. Hence Supplier Relationship …
Relationship-based Marketplace
IntroductionJohn runs a small marketing firm. He, along with five other employees, manages most of the company's operations from sales to customer service. When John decided to …
Best Practices In Enterprise Engagements: Nailing Down Your First Big Enterprise Project
Congratulations – you've landed your first big enterprise client. Now you need to do what you said you'd do, and make everyone happy in the process. This …
Refactoring
So you’ve finished your project, and it all works.Just like your boss and your client expected it to work.Everybody happy, all good, let’s forget all about it …
Streams API Part 2
Following on from the first part of the article in Issue 2, this part shows you how to implement your own wrapped streams for custom protocols that …
The Chasing of the Big
On their way to developing their small, fast and popular Database Server MySQL, AB made a huge step towards a modern RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) that …
Performance Tuning Part I
When talking about database development and database administration, performance tuning isan essential topic. PostgreSQL is one of the most widespread Open Source databases available and it provides …
phpOpenTracker
Where do they come from? What do they do? Where do they go? phpOpenTracker helps you to find answers to these and other questions. This is an …
Brewing Java with PHP
The PHP Java extension provides the necessary API to interfere with Java. It enables you to instantiatearbitrary Java objects just like you would instantiate a na tive …
PHP Games
Writing internet games with PHP has been possible forever, but obviously it was bound to using browsers for the frontend and web servers for the actual game …
Extending PHP
One of the key factors of PHP’s tremendous success was the very easy to use extensibility API.The simplicity of adding new functionality to the PHP engine, such …
Serving WebDAV
Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning - WebDAV - is an HTTP protocol extension designed to replace FTP for website maintenance.After a rather slow start it is now …
Enterprise Security with PHP & Oracle
Traditional, Impractical Application-Based Security MechanismsMost large enterprises face the recurring challenge of providing adequate security to the data stored in their central databases and shared by a …
Top 7 MySQL Licensing Q's
IntroductionThis article endeavors to provide advice that is responsible, practical, conservative, and true. However, please keep in mind that it is not a substitute for professional legal …
Paranoia Session
The internet plays an increasingly important role in our lives, it’s the medium for communicating with friends, paying bills, reading news etc... Consequently security becomes more and …
Site Structure: Where to Locate Includes?
Scenario 1: When You Control the Server Files in the document root, typically something like /var/www/html/ on a Linux box, are accessible to the public. When you …
Secure Forms and Crypt_HMAC
HMAC is similar in concept to systems such as PGP/GPG, except there is only one key, rather than a key pair.HMAC is used for message integrity checks …
Secure PHP Programming
Every day thousands of hackers are attacking internet servers around the world.They are the digital graffiti sprayers of the new age and their highest priority is to …
Encoded Connection
One uses a Secure Reverse Proxy – also called Transparent Proxy – particularly in enterprises to protect investments in a Windows infrastructure.In this contribution we demonstrate the …