Setting Up Zend Optimizer Tutorial PHP / Miscellaneous
The Zend Optimizer is a free application that runs the files encoded by the Zend Encoder and Zend SafeGuard Suite, while enhancing the running speed of PHP applications. Many scripts require that you have Zend Optimizer installed so you are able to run them on your server while decrypting and running them on the fly while increasing runtime performance.
Smarty for Beginners PHP / Templates
This tutorial I aim to explain how to use the Smarty Template Engine in the simplest terms so even beginning coders of PHP can understand how to use it as their primary template engine.
PHP Debugging with Zend Studio PHP / Getting Started
We will explore how to use the latest update of Zend Studio for debugging PHP scripts. But first, we will get an overview of the product, its various editions, the system requirements for running.
PHP News CMS PHP / CMS
Check out this great tutorial to find out all the details of Content Management Systems (CMS). Everything you need to know is right here.
Creating A Scaffold-like Class in PHP or An Automatic CMS For a Table PHP / Object Oriented
If you've ever seen the Creating a Weblog In 15 Minutes movie, you were undoubtedly startled at how useful and quick the scaffold command could be. But if you're still using PHP, and you love that command, then you could have a problem. Luckily, through the use of Object Oriented Programming, an equivalent solution is available, creating a full create, read, update, and delete CMS for a single table through one command.
Authentication and Security PHP / Membership
In this tutorial we discuss the techniques used to build web database applications that authenticate, authorize, and protect the data that is transmitted over the Web. The topics covered in this tutorial include:
* How HTTP authentication works and how it can be used with Apache and PHP
* Writing PHP scripts to manage user authentication and authorization
* Writing PHP scripts that authenticate users against a table in a database
* The practical aspects of building session-based web database applications to authenticate users, including techniques that don't use HTTP authentication
* A case study example that develops an authentication framework, demonstrating many of the techniques presented in this tutorial
* The features of the encryption services provided by the Secure Sockets Layer.
Reading and Writing files in PHP PHP / File Operations
PHP follows almost same way of writing and manipulating files as in standard C. That is why it becomes so easy for a developer with C language background to create php application that uses files to save and retrieve data. It is a short tutorial that will get you started with writing and manipulating text files.
Writing Secure PHP Code PHP / Security
This article will guide you through writing secure PHP code and covers many of the common security pitfalls one will encounter while making php applications.
Generating RSS Feeds on the Fly With PHP PHP / XML Web Services
This article serves to augment the previous article. Instead of writing to a file to make an RSS feed, php code is included that makes the output of RSS without writing to a separate file.
PHP Script Tips - Reading and Writing Files PHP / File Operations
A collection of 14 tips on PHP functions on file input and output. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on opening files for reading and writing, appending data to existing files, reading file by line or character, reading file in binary mode.
Tips on Writing Portable SQL PHP / Databases
If you are writing an application that is used in multiple environments and operating systems, you need to plan to support multiple databases. This article is based on my experiences with multiple database systems, stretching from 4th Dimension in my Mac days, to the databases I currently use, which are: Oracle, FoxPro, Access, MS SQL Server and MySQL. Although most of the advice here applies to using SQL with Perl, Python and other programming languages, I will focus on PHP and how the ADOdb database abstraction library offers some solutions.
Writing to Web Databases PHP / Databases
Writing data in web database applications requires different techniques than reading data. Issues of transactions and concurrency become important, and we introduce these issues and the principles of dealing with them in this tutorial.he introduction is practical: we focus on the basic management techniques of locking and unlocking tables, and how to safely implement simple database writes in MySQL when there is more than one user simultaneously accessing a database. Most importantly, we identify when special approaches are required, and when these can be safely omitted from a web database application.
An Expandable Form Validation Class: Part 3 PHP / Forms
In this final Part we will be coding some example validation rules and explaining how to use them. We will then go on and show how the final complete Class can be applied in a real working environment, so that you can use it in all your future scripts. At the end of this Part, you should have gained a complete understanding of how the Class operates, and proceed to expand on it with ease.