Google Checkout Integration for PHP PHP / E-Commerce
Using Google checkout buying from stores across the web becomes simple and also facilitates you to keep track of all the orders.The Google Checkout's fraud protection policy protects you against all the unauthorized purchases made via Google Checkout. Another advantage is that the Google Checkout does not share the history of the purchasers with other sellers.With Google checkout your email is well protected and is kept confidential. Tracking down your purchase history list is also simple.
Creating a domain checker PHP / Network and Communication
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a PHP script to check whether the actual domain name is available or not. In the next section I focus on the .com domains but you can extend the script to handle as many top level domains as you want.
Providing Web Services using WDDX PHP / XML Web Services
As we've seen in lot of articles and publications, the web of services, is one of the emerging evolutions of the actual document-based web. To make the web a valid media for providing services it would be needed to increase the inter-operability between existing web applications and design new ones with this in mind.
Blocking Bad Agents from downloading your website PHP / Security
If you found this page searching Google or search engine, you must be looking for a solution how to block those bad guys from downloading your whole site. I know exactly how it feels to be ripped off, and I have done some research in this area and found few solutions that really work. I thought I would share this with you so that you could save your bandwidth from illegal downloaders.
CyberCash PHP / E-Commerce
This article explains how to create an interface to CyberCash in PHP, called CyberClass. A duplication of CyberCash's standard API, CyberClass is object-oriented and includes automatic configuration.
Database Applications and the Web PHP / Databases
With the growth of the Web over the past decade, there has been a similar growth in services that are accessible over the Web. Many new services are web sites that are driven from data stored in databases. Examples of web database applications include news services that provide access to large data repositories, e-commerce applications such as online stores, and business-to-business (B2B) support products.
Web Database Tutorial (PHP & MySQL) PHP / Databases
This is a tutorial on how to create a web database application using PHP and MySQL on a Unix platform (Linux or Mac OS X). The example used is a database to manage web site links. The same ideas used in this tutorial can be expanded to most web applications like phone directories, personalization, survey polls, etc... All are based on inserting, displaying and managing data in a database.
Simple System Maintenance with PHP-CLI PHP / Getting Started
Web development is a world of rapid code modifications, instant deployment and immediate updates. Of course, maintaining the product of this web development can be as hectic as the web development is agile; with manual backups, quick database edits and tedious data migration and re-entry.
Remembering Users (Cookies and Sessions) PHP / Sessions and Cookies
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless protocol. To say it in a simple way: A client (web browser) connects to a web server, sends a request, and gets a response. Then, the connection is closed. The consequence is the next time the same client sends a request to the same web server, it is a new request, so the web server cannot identify the caller. This is, of course, a problem for applications in which state must be maintained, for instance e-commerce applications with a shopping-cart functionality.
Best Practices: Database Abstraction PHP / PEAR
Abstraction is a technique which simplifies something complex. In the case of database abstraction, the complexities of connecting to a database is hidden behind a standard API, thereby allowing the programmer to connect to many different types of databases without relearning the methods and syntax peculiar to each different type.
PEAR's DB classes are one such database abstraction layer, and in this article we'll take a look at some traditional database access methods and then compare them with the method employed by PEAR.
MySQL for Newbies, How to create a MySQL Database and Table PHP / Databases
Whether you are an experienced web programmer or a complete novice attempting to provide data interactivity with your web site, MyQSL is an easy to use and free database solution that can allow you to store and configure data to be displayed on your web site.
How to Bridge PHP and Java for Powerful Web Solutions PHP / General Development
Here's how to team up two of the most popular and powerful platforms for web development together. With the php-java bridge you can build classes and jar files in Java and call them and use their methods in PHP. Use the quick and easy PHP language to bring Java muscle to your web pages.
Installing PHP on Windows PHP / Installation
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.