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Freelancer’s Corner
Why Should You Care?As a freelance coder, it’s easy to keep yourself locked in your room, music blaring, coding day in and day out, and avoiding human …
XML means Business
This will be XML. It has the potential to connect systems and applications from different vendors running on different platforms in different locations. It is well documented, …
Open Source Businesses
Since Linux, Open Source softwares have demonstrated that they are viable solutions for both maintaining and developing software. With open source software, bugs are being tracked and …
Locked!
The idea of encoding is very easy: you have to ensure that your source or parts of it will be compiled, optimized and encoded. The result of …
Programming with PHP
In this issue of the PHP Magazine, the focus is multimedia, and integrating multimedia applications with the environment around them; therefore I thought it is appropriate that …
PHP CLI Unveiled!
Quietly and with little ado, PHP 5 has brought the power and strengths of PHP to the command line, making PHP a tool of choice for Web …
Write Once –Run Anywhere
While this is a Java marketing phrase it is also a key feature of PHP.Many business models dependon operating system independence to ensure that products can be …
Click Your Language
This topic is one that is often sidestepped in favor of a quicker or more unilingual solution, but with the internet being home to all nationalities, a …
Zend Engine 2 Exposed
What’s New Compared to PHP4This article only covers the parts of the Zend Engine that are interesting for extension developers. Explaining the whole list of changes would …
More Templating
Though surmountable, the process of deciding the most appropriate templating system for a web-application often unduly burdens developers, for the PHP community is rife with templating engines, …
New tricks with PHP 4.3
In some situations, especially when creating content with text editors or when not so experienced users participate in a project, it is not an easy task to …
Return of the BLOB
When we speak of storing images or binary data in a database many will assume we wish to use the data in a production environment such as …
cURL
Back in the olden days, using PHP to interact with external data sources was extremely tedious, requiring a bit of luck, a bit of magic and a …
Web servers and IISfunc
When a PHP application is developed and ready for distribution/installation the developer often finds himself writing a brief installation guide, at least if the application is intended …
Where’s the SOAP
I will first try to explain what SOAP really is, and no I’m not talking about the substance which dissolves in water and is used as a …
Performance Tuning Part 2
The first part of this article gave a theoretical overview and reviewed ways of optimizing data structures. In this part we will deal with runtime parameters and …
Word Documents on the Fly
Hello WorldIt really has to be done; the almost obligatory “Hello World” first example: Yes, you read that right, it’s HTML. Well, that’s not strictly true, because …
Flashed!
Ming is a library, released under the LGPL open-source license,which provides an interface for the creation and output of Macromedia Flash files.Ming provides many advantages over other …
Windows Scripting
COM BasicsSome understanding of the COM Architecture is useful for working with components.Basically a COM component is a piece of software that exposes its functionality through well …
Stupid PHP Tricks
If PHP can be considered a major Galactic Civilization, then this column may be an indication that we are somewhere between the Sophistication phase and the unmentioned …