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Solving PHP File Uploading Errors Caused By Mod Security

by on 05.07.2010 | 2 comments

Today’s latest & greatest PHP based applications generally have some sort of mass media upload system integrated with them. Sometimes though you get error after error when using these new mass uploaders. Here is one way that may fix them.

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Using File Writing To Log Errors In Your PHP Application

by on 05.06.2010 | no comments

When writing a PHP application it’s very important to give out nice friendly error messages to anyone using the application. The problem? You don’t get any detailed error information. To help we can add file logging to log the detailed error information.

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Using PHP & MySQLi With A MySQL Database Part 2

by on 04.29.2010 | 3 comments

Continuing on from the last post which covered the basics of connecting to a database using MySQLi, we are going to look at inserting, updating & deleting data. Finally we are going to look at some of the miscellaneous features of MySQLi.

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Using PHP & MySQLi With A MySQL Database Part 1

by on 04.28.2010 | 23 comments

Learning how to connect to a MySQLi database is pretty much an essential part of learning PHP in today’s database heavy web development scene. Here is a small tutorial to teach just how it’s done.

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Parsing A RSS Feed With PHP Using SimpleXML

by on 04.27.2010 | 5 comments

XML is used for all types of thing, one of the most commonly known is for RSS feeds. Using PHP & SimpleXML you can parse that feed or any XML file to grab the data and manipulate it however you want. Here’s how it’s done.

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Using MySQL To Search For Any Word In Any Order

by on 03.11.2010 | 3 comments

A limitation with searches using MySQL is that when using LIKE to find the words queried it will only find them if they are together in the same order they were written. Here is how to change that so the words are found in any order.

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Adding File Caching To Your Twitter API Script

by on 02.24.2010 | 22 comments

In our last tutorial we created a script to connect to the Twitter API, collect our tweets & display them in some simple paragraphs. In this part we are going to add a very important part, file caching. This will stop our script from running out of API requests.

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Connecting To Twitter API Using PHP

by on 02.23.2010 | 6 comments

Showing your Twitter timeline, or even just your most recent status update, is becoming increasingly popular. Doing it on a WordPress blog is simple with plugins, but what if you want to do it on a non-WordPress website? Here’s how.

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Creating A Wikipedia Style Search

by on 02.18.2010 | 1 comment

So you want to create an intelligent search for your website? By intelligent you are, of course, talking about the way Wikipedia sends you to the correct page should an exact match be found. Well you’re in luck, here is an easy way to do it using PHP & MySQLi.

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Adding A Twitter Social Bookmark To Your Blog

by on 02.17.2010 | no comments

Twitter is exceptionally popular for promoting your blog, or business. Having a Twitter social bookmark icon on your blog enables visitors, or even yourself to tweet the current blog article you are reading very quickly & easily. Here is how to create one.

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