If you’re looking to add some pizzazz to your PHP application, look no further—Adobe’s Flex is here to give your interface some polish. In this article Lennart Steinke shows us how to make a Flex widget with a PHP back end. Read carefully, because there’s a quiz at the end: ...
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Written by Gertjan on May 12th, 2009
Written by Gertjan on May 12th, 2009
As Web sites and Web-based applications become more important to commercial firms and other organizations, so too does the methods used for storing data online, such as customer contact information, system login details, product data, and much more. Rewritable flat files may be sufficient for extremely limited data for which ...
Written by Gertjan on May 12th, 2009
For most dynamic websites you will want to create "Search Engine Friendly" or "User Friendly" URLs, rather than using ugly and meaningless strings or IDs to reference your content. The way you interpret the URLs and use them to get your content is for another article and I won't go ...
Written by Gertjan on May 12th, 2009
Memcache is a tool which can cache objects in memory – and is often used for speeding up dynamic web applications. PHP has a built-in module for working with memcache, and its a simple and convenient way of introducing caching to your application.
PHP has a PECL module for talking to ...
Written by Gertjan on May 12th, 2009
The MVC architectural pattern is a smart and bright way of developing web-based applications. The acronym MVC stands for Model, View and Control: these are the three components that, according to the pattern, every application can (and should) be divided into. I would actually state that MVC is "the ultimate" ...
Written by Gertjan on May 11th, 2009
One of the most annoying things about working with images is getting them into the right size. Screenshots start out huge - and you need to resize them to an appropriate size for your website.
Some blogs automatically resize the pictures for you into a thumbnail - like the image to ...
Written by Gertjan on May 11th, 2009
A brochure-style Web site may be sufficient for a business that simply wants a basic Web presence — some static pages to inform the visitor of the company's off-line contact information. But most organizations want a Web site that can interact with the visitor, delivering custom content in dynamically-generated pages, ...
Written by Gertjan on May 11th, 2009
One of the more surprising things you can learn about PHP is that it’s actually very useful when it comes to manipulating images of varying filetypes and formats. And a good thing too, since a lot of the internet is made up of pictures!
Written by Gertjan on May 11th, 2009
This tutorial will teach you the very basics on how to use a PHP #include command. The #include command is used to insert the content of an external HTML page into an existing PHP page. For example, the header and footer of this page you are reading right now are ...
Written by Gertjan on April 21st, 2009
PHP is one of the most popular programming languages for the web. Sometimes a feature-friendly language can help the programmer too much, and security holes can creep in, creating roadblocks in the development path. In this tutorial, we will take a look at 5 tips to help you avoid some ...