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Written by Gertjan on April 21st, 2009
Bots or Crawlers, are basically search engines crawling around the internet. This is how you get your pages on search engines (well, a major way). Bot Detection isn't something super vital, but if your CMS or website already has practically everything, then you need Bot Detection. Really Bot Detection isn't as ...
Written by Gertjan on April 21st, 2009
This tutorial will show you how to make a very simple feature which will help your users make more secure passwords, in registration forms. After the user types their password, this script will make a request to a PHP page, which will check the password for lowercase letters, uppercase letters, ...
Written by Gertjan on April 21st, 2009
As a developer you may run into a situation such as what I had, numerous applications deployed. With multiple logins for all the apps, we had to find way to integrate all logins for better management and maintenance. Since we were using Apache with a PHP server, the solution was to find ...
Written by Gertjan on April 5th, 2009
PHP V5's object-oriented features give you the ability to implement design patterns to improve your code's design. When you improve your code's design in this way, it becomes more readable, more maintainable, and more robust to absorb changes.
Written by Gertjan on March 30th, 2009
Design patterns are just for Java architects or at least that's what you may have been led to believe. In fact, design patterns are useful for everyone. The core concept behind design patterns are simple. Over their years of developing software, developers found certain patterns of solid design emerging, just ...
Written by Gertjan on March 27th, 2009
When creating a database class using mysql, we would create a class, and call it's constructor in the script. One potential problem with this approach is that each time we create a new database object, we allocate more and more memory to those operations. In some cases, it might make sense ...
Written by Gertjan on March 18th, 2009
To make a map as engaging as possible, there needs to be smooth animations and crisp graphics.  Traditionally such a map would require the use of Flash. Joel Sutherland tried to avoid Flash whenever possible, so he began to consider how the map could be accomplished in jQuery. There ...
Written by Gertjan on February 16th, 2009
What is Exception Handling? An exception (or exception handler) is a programming language construct that lets web developers have a better control over error handling. Most web sites development services have the option to extend this with their own custom exceptions to trap specific bugs or errors. Exception Handling in PHP PHP 5 ...
Written by Gertjan on February 16th, 2009
This tutorial covers the essentials of separating your design from your content and adding an editor to allow the site owner to make edits from any location. This tutorial is geared towards PHP sites, but the techniques involved can be translated to ASP, Perl-CGI and other languages.
Written by Gertjan on February 16th, 2009
This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it ...