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On the HowToForge website, there's a new tutorial that teaches one of the fundamentals of working with PHP (or any language for that matter) looping. Let's move towards our today's lecture which is about Loops. There are certain conditions in which you need to execute the same block of code again and again. For example if you want to print ten consecutive equal signs in three lines to make a separator then you could do it with different methods. The tutorial covers:Basic Concept Of LoopsTypes Of Loops (for, while, do/while, and foreach)Assignmentsome Related ArticlesCode examples are given for all, and a good overview of working with the loops is given. |
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On the Dotvoid.com blog today, there's a new post that shares some handy code to parse out information from the incoming user agent string for the visitors for your site. Recently I experimented a bit with an Apache log file analyzer written in PHP. It's not all that difficult were it not for trying to parse the browser, or user agent, string. [...] For my purposes I don't care much for the operating system details. This is the result so far. I'm still not very satisfied but I thought maybe other people might be interested and maybe help out.He provides the code in the format of an encapsulated PHP function that returns the product they're using, the version number of the browser and other various comments. |
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The latest weekly summary for the PHP mailing lists has been posted over on the Zend Developer Zone. This week, discussions included:Sandboxed semaphoresFocus on *printf [continued]PHP 5.2.1 RC2 and PHP 4.4.5 RC1It's all in the HEADDescriptions of each of the headings are provided, including code and a short version for those on the run. Be sure to check back each week for a new summary. |
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WebReference.com has posted part three of their Building Blocks series a look at data types, literals, variables, and constants. In part three, they focus more on the last type of block in their list the constant: Some realworld constants, such as pi, the speed of light, the number of inches in a foot, and the value of midnight, are values that don't change. PHP not only provides its own predefined constants but lets you create your own. Using constants makes it easy to write and maintain your programs.There's talk of the define() and constant() functions and a mention of some of the predefined and magic constants as well. |
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On his blog today, Ryan Malesevich has posted two items about his recent experiences with the latest version of WordPress (2.1). One of the reasons was I wanted to upgrade Wordpress to 2.1 and I knew that it could take a while. I wanted to make sure there were no problems with plugins etc. But I?ve upgraded, and I would say that I haven?t run into any troubles. Everything appears to work as it should. He follows this up with some initial impressions of the new version, including the image upload system and the autosave functionality (to ensure the least amount of data loss, just in case). |
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Jonathan Snook has posted a review of a book offered by the Friends of Ed publishing company PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy by David Powers. The folks at Friend of Ed were kind enough to send me a copy of PHP Solutions, by David Powers. This book is solely intended for someone who hasn't used PHP before but approaches it in a way that is different than most books I've seen.Jonathan talks about the contents of the book (installation, the basics, working with images, etc) and mentions what he liked about the book mostly its forwardthinking approach including a look at PHP6 and a more wellrounded approach than just the traditional put it in the database ideas. |
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If you think you know what's going on behind the scenes when you're working with objects in PHP5 you're wrong. You're even being lied to, according to Sara Golemon's latest entry: If you're among the crowd who have migrated an OOP based application from PHP4 to PHP5, then I'm sure you've heard the expression Objects are copied by reference by default in PHP5. Whoever told you that, was lying.As she explains, the truth is more that they behave that way, not that they are actually like that. She talks about what objects actually are and how things are handled differently from PHP4 to PHP5. She also lies a little also about the copying part, and explains the internal structure of a variable to show why. She also includes a bit on why referencing variables when it's not really a must is a bad idea the main idea of it being a waste of space and memory in the application. |
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In a new entry to his blog today, Alexander Netkachev takes a look at the Eclipse project formerly known as PHP IDE the PDT, PHP Development Tools project. PHP IDE developers have changed the name of their project to PHP Development Tools, to place it into the line of Eclipse project Development Tools with C/C++ Development Tools, J Development Tools, and others. So, if you use PHP IDE in your work, do not forget to update it to the new version of the project with a few bugs fixed and new features added.He also includes the instructions to make the update to this latest version and the screenshots of a before and after the update's run. |
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Well, the PHP Throwdown event has come and gone with all of the teams giving their best creating an application hoping to reach the top. Wow, what can I say but w00t! The throwdown was a tremendous success and went off without any major problems. We?re still compiling all the final projects and I?ll be reporting some statistics about those (as in who was using what and how many competitors we had per category). I am excited to see what all has come of it.There were also bloggers from about the web that covered the event either for themselves or for the team they were a part of. Congrats to all of those who participated and we'll all be anxiously awaiting the results! OH, and if you didn't get a chance to participate this year, you can still grab a tshirt to remember the event by. |
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Latest PEAR Releases:File_PDF 0.2.0SOAP 0.10.0SOAP 0.10.1HTML_Progress2 2.3.0a2Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBQuery 0.1.5pearweb 1.1.8PEAR 1.5.0pearweb 1.1.7Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_Array 0.1.2Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBQuery 0.1.6Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_MDB2 0.1.6Structures_BibTex 1.0.0RC3Console_Color 1.0.2Gtk2_ExceptionDump 1.0.0Services_Blogging 0.1.0DB_QueryTool 1.1.0MDB_QueryTool 1.2.0Games_Chess 1.0.0DB 1.7.8 |
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A very good article to give you a good understanding of different Operators in PHP and examples of their usage |
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As a former ASP.Net coder, I've missed the convenience of Microsoft's builtin Calendar Control since I switched to doing Web site development in PHP. On a recent project I needed the ability to display a calendar with dates serving as hyperlinks to selected database items. I decided to use the opportunity to write some portable PHP code that I could use in other projects.So started Donald McArthur's work on creating a simple, easy to use calendaring system to be used in a popup inside an application. He provides all the code you'll need the PHP code and the HTML layout/functionality you'll need to get it working. He helps you visualize the structure of the end result HTML table with a simpler version (three cells by five cells) and explains the date functions the code uses to figure out the dates and days of the selected month. |
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Company Data Industries, Ltd. (Recruiter) Location New York, NY (Manhattan) Title PHP Application Developer Summary his position is responsible for development of internet software products for hightraffic consumerfacing digital properties, with concentration on PHP/MySQL applications. Link More Information |
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Josh Gilman has posted a new class that he's developed to make it simple to create the HTTP headers for any connection. It also reads back the host's reply and parses any header and cookie information. Supports GZIP encoding as well. The source can be seen here. Feel free to use it, just don't take any credit for yourself. More to come soon! The code is pretty simple all OOP and in a class to make it easy and the assemble_header function makes you a single function call away from your shiny new headers for your message. |
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In this new post to his blog, Richard Thomas talks about a bug issue that he's gotten in the middle of and the conflict between the PHP group and the PEAR developers that came out of it. Today I managed to get right in the middle of this. [...] Both pear and php are pointing the fingers at each other, neither seem to be able to work together and Im not even sure if either one of them has even taken the time to run my test code and realize what the issue is to begin with.The problem comes when he created a a script with the Pear Mail, Mail_mime and Net_SMTP PEAR classes and, following the execution of the rest of the script, tried it both ways turning the erro reporting back off or not messing with it at all. As a result, the code with the ending error_reporting() call throws an error, the one without does not. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing both sides are still pointing at the other for blame on the issue. |
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On the Zend Developer Zone, there's a helpful hint for users out there running a web service to help keep things safe: Ok, so you've written a cool new Web API and you've written l33t JavaScript to call it from your page. The problem is, anybody who views your source can see how you call your new toy and use it for their own nefarious purposes. Granted, sometimes this is what you want but there are times when you want to keep your toys to yourself. For those times, here is a quick trick you can implement that will help thwart most evil doers.The quick trick involves the placement of a secret variable into the session after the user has been validated. The sample code to make it work is provided and and example Ajax call illustrates how it's used. Then all the API has to do is check for that value in the data passed along. |
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PHPBuilder.com has posted a new article (an excerpt from the Foundations of PEAR book from APress) focusing on the authentication aspect and components PEAR has to offer. After all, nearly all authentication is identical in its basic functionality, and there?s usually no good reason to spin off your own code if it?s already written for you.They talk about three packages the Auth package, Auth_HTTP, and the Auth_PrefManager. They describe the Auth package in depth in this article common uses, related packages, required packages, what the constructor is like and descriptions of the functions the package provides. |
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On Developer.com, Jason Gilmore has posted This new tutorial that steps you through the creation of an ajaxenabled shopping cart that combines PHP and Prototype. In the latest installment of this ongoing PHP series, I'll show you how to build a shopping cart using PHP, session handling, and the Prototype JavaScript library (introduced in an earlier installment). The cart allows users to add and delete products from the cart, as well as change cart quantities. And of course, the interaction is seemingly instantaneous, allowing for the user to continue shopping without waiting for the page to reload.He creates the database table first (bottom up approach), then moves to the PHP code to handle the request/responses for the shopping cart, and with a little bit of session magic to connect the cart to the user and the Prototype tossed in, the cart is complete. |
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Ilia Alshanetsky has announced the release of the latest Release Candidate in the PHP 5.2.1 series PHP 5.2.1RC4: I've packaged what looks the be the final RC for the 5.2.1 release, RC4. This release fixes another dozen or so bugs since the last release and from the given feedback looks to be regression free. That said I'd like to ask everyone to take a few minutes and try this RC with their code to make sure it really is as good as it seems and to ensure no new issues are introduced.So, give it one last run through and submit any problems you might have and get us to PHP 5.2.1 that much sooner. Tarball downloads:BzippedGzipped |
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