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PHP Redirect Function

After form submission or a page redirect is triggered, it's commonplace to redirect the user to a different page or to the same page, formatted in a different...

10 replies - 29950 views - 03/01/08 by David Walsh in News

How to Merge RSS Feeds Using Php & Zend Framework

Recently I though of making one combines RSS feed of both of my blogs and my twitter updates. There are some RSS merging services out there, and there's also...

0 replies - 2480 views - 02/27/08 by Arik Fraimovich in News

Writing Website Scrapers in PHP

This article instructs you on how to write a website scraper using PHP for web site data extraction. The concepts taught can be applied and programmed in Java,...

1 replies - 5098 views - 02/26/08 by Sunil Bhatia in News

Using sfFileCache directly

You can configure a lot of caching in symfony, so rarely do you need to cache things yourself, but it may happen that one day you decide you need it. I came to...

0 replies - 1071 views - 02/19/08 by Stefan Koopmanschap in Articles

MSN Live Search Result Grabber

Within the last month, I've created two popular SEO tools: Google Grabber and Yahoo Grabber. Each grabber goes to the respective website and retrieves the...

0 replies - 1163 views - 02/18/08 by David Walsh in News

Using Weather Data to Change Your Website's Appearance through PHP and CSS

Using a little magic and trickery (read: PHP and CSS), we can change the appearance of a website automatically based on the weather outside, in real time! In...

0 replies - 6679 views - 02/16/08 by Chris Coyier in News

Custom Error Handling in PHP

Web application don't always go to plan, that much is obvious. Users will continuously find ways to trigger errors within your application and how you record,...

0 replies - 1238 views - 02/15/08 by David Walsh in News

Download a URL's Content Using PHP CURL

Downloading content at a specific URL is common practice on the internet, especially due to increased usage of web services and APIs offered by Amazon, Alexa,...

3 replies - 1342 views - 02/13/08 by David Walsh in News

Two Great Books for PHP Developers

PHP is hot and this week we have two new releases to keep developers in top form. First, Pragmatic Bookshelf has released Rails for PHP Developers, a guide to...

6 replies - 2614 views - 02/13/08 by Meera Subbarao in News

Flow3: PHP's Answer to Java's Spring?

I'm a Typo3 user for years. It's one of the best PHP-based OpenSource CMS you can get today. I prefer it over Java-based solutions because it's mature,...

8 replies - 8917 views - 02/10/08 by Rainer Eschen in News

Yahoo Domain Result Grabber

I released my PHP Google Grabber script about a month ago and it was a big hit, even spawning Python and Groovy versions. Obtaining the number of pages...

0 replies - 708 views - 02/06/08 by David Walsh in News

Why Microsoft Needs Yahoo: the Real Story

So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called...

0 replies - 12781 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News

PHP Force Download - Keep Up With What's Going Down

A force-download script can give you more control over a file download than you would have providing a direct link. Using a force-download script, you can:

0 replies - 11793 views - 02/02/08 by David Walsh in News

CIO Magazine Trolls and Gets Spanked Hard

[DISCLAIMER: What you are about to read is my opinion and should not be construed in any way to be an official statement from my employeer] CIO Magazine...

5 replies - 1319 views - 01/31/08 by Cal Evans in News

PHP Security - Block Access to Include Files Using .htaccess

When I build websites for clients and myself, I use numerous include files to make my website easy to maintain. These include files may:

9 replies - 5572 views - 01/30/08 by David Walsh in News