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Open-source Web applications, PHP vs. Java (Part 2 of 2)

The first part of this article reviewed some relevant open-source Web applications in both the PHP and Java worlds.

17 replies - 3652 views - 05/01/08 by Robert Enyedi in News

Open-source Web applications, PHP vs. Java (Part 1 of 2)

It is common knowledge that PHP does well in the open-source Web applications space.

24 replies - 4991 views - 04/28/08 by Robert Enyedi in News

Java, .NET, and PHP In One Webapp? The Holy Grail of Mashups.

What if you could run a single webapp with Java, PHP, and ASP.NET AJAX in one webapp?  Stay with me for a minute, because I think there might be a powerful...

1 replies - 2843 views - 04/10/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News

Watch Your POST: Save PHP POST Data as XML

One of my main goals when creating PHP web forms is to keep them secure and protected from spammers and automated bots. With the amount of spam that Akismet...

5 replies - 2022 views - 03/25/08 by David Walsh in News

Tips & Tricks of Learning Ternary Operators

I started using ternary operator logic about six months ago and notice myself using shorthand if/else logic all the time. It shortens my code, the time to...

6 replies - 1587 views - 03/17/08 by David Walsh in News

Force A Secure Page Using PHP

Force A Secure Page Using PHP Many pages, most often pages with forms or pages that serve personal information, require the need to be served over a secure...

6 replies - 1290 views - 03/15/08 by David Walsh in News

Execute a HTTP POST Using PHP CURL

A customer recently brought to me a unique challenge. My customer wants information request form data to be collected in a database. Nothing new, right? ...

2 replies - 2939 views - 03/11/08 by David Walsh in News

PHP Email Validator - Email MX DNS Record Check

Validating an email address is one of the hardest feats on the web. A valid email can be marketing gold, but an invalid email address is dead weight. Not...

3 replies - 2896 views - 03/06/08 by David Walsh in News

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...

8 replies - 5858 views - 03/01/08 by David Walsh in News

The HYSOCAMTT templating approach

This article aims to highlight a approach which allows one to separate everything from one's business logic to one's design logic, to XHTML from CSS, one's...

0 replies - 271 views - 02/28/08 by Cal Evans 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 - 627 views - 02/27/08 by Arik Fraimovich in News

OpenID, OAuth and the Enterprise

I spent last weekend in Sebastopol, CA at Foo Camp where the topics discussed were around the Social Graph, Privacy, OpenID, OAuth, Data Portability,...

0 replies - 261 views - 02/26/08 by Danny Kolke 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 - 1306 views - 02/26/08 by Sunil Bhatia in News

I called Zend_Json::encode(), so WTH are all my properties?

The problem is simple, JSON encode a PHP object and send it back to the front end. Sounds simple and the last 100 times I wrote this code it was simple. This...

0 replies - 154 views - 02/21/08 by Cal Evans in News

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 - 265 views - 02/18/08 by David Walsh in News