Simple Data Sanitization with preg_replace
Sanitizing data is a very important part of any server side scripting language, and it’s no different for PHP. So here is one simple way of sanitizing data using the dreaded REGEX.
Read moreWriting Text On An Image With GD
Writing text on your images using GD is a handy ability to have. Maybe you are developing an imagehost or you have a project where you need to place text on an existing image. Whatever the reason here is how it’s done.
Read moreWordPress: PHP CGI Vs PHP FCGI
This is a little bit of a niche post, but it’s all about a problem I had recently with my site. It was all to do with WordPress and how it responded when running under PHP as FastCGI instead of CGI.
Read moreOptimizing WordPress For Shared Hosting
There are lots of websites hosted on shared hosting in this age, and the majority are probably running WordPress. While it’s a great application once set up with plugins it isn’t the lightest one on the block. Here we are going to look at making WordPress as shared server friendly as possible.
Read morePHP Basics: The Switch Statement
Today we are going back to basics with a small tutorial on how to use the PHP switch statement. They can be extremely useful, but knowing how to use them properly can save you a lot of time.
Read moreShowing Or Saving An Image Retrieved Via cURL
As a developer cURL can be a very handy for numerous reasons. In my case I have used it for my plugin Twitter Stream, but here we are going to look at a little tip I stumbled across while playing with cURL.
Read moreSolving PHP File Uploading Errors Caused By Mod Security
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.
Read moreUsing File Writing To Log Errors In Your PHP Application
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.
Read moreUsing PHP & MySQLi With A MySQL Database Part 2
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.
Read moreUsing PHP & MySQLi With A MySQL Database Part 1
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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