Create Your Own PHP/AMF Data Service For Flex
TweetThis is a quick and short tutorial on how to create your own data services for flex to read. Also, note that in this tutorial we will be focussing on what a PHP Developer would be doing and not...
View ArticleSearching With %?% In a Prepared Statement
TweetA while back when working on a project I learned that when using the wild card: ‘%’ in SQL with a prepared statement you are going to get an error message. This is because the prepared statement...
View ArticleGetting Secured Using Mysqli
TweetIntroduction The Mysqli class is a great help to working towards proper security when sending and pulling information from the database. It can stop injection attacks in their tracks and will...
View ArticlePHP Automatically Include Classes
TweetPulling In Content Php has a nice small feature that allows us to automatically load classes that we use in our web application. This will check the designated location’s files and pull in any...
View ArticlePHP: Array Of Bad Words
TweetWhen creating applications that are going to be used by hundreds of thousands; it is important to make sure that you have the proper facilities in place to handle curse words that are entered in...
View ArticlecURL 403 Error Returning
TweetThe other day at work we ran into an issue where the server would return a 403 error page when retrieving page information from a cURL call. After searching around the web for a while thinking...
View ArticleRedundant Data Class in PHP {Theory}
TweetAs a server side programmer you are going to be spending a lot of time working with data that is pulled from the database and in order to make sure that you do not have any loose ends it is a...
View ArticleURL Authentication – A New Approach
TweetIt is time for web developers and software engineers to make a new approach when checking the validity of URLs and emails that are provided by users. Icann has decided that it is going to allow...
View ArticlePassword Recovery {Theory}
TweetPassword Recovery is a must have in any web application and you as a software engineer need to make sure that you handle this process properly. There are two methods that I like to use but in...
View ArticleStatistics – Simple Logging Design
TweetIntroduction This article is the first in a series focussed on Statistics, Logging and Graphing web application events and information When creating a web application it is important to keep...
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