If you re a PHP developer who s searching for a third-party framework that lets you build full-blown web applications without having to deal with a long and hard learning curve then this group of articles might be what you really need. Welcome to the sixth installment of the series… Continue Reading

If you re a PHP programmer who has tried to generate PDF documents on the Windows platform you may have run into some very irritating issues. This article will discuss those issues show you how to generate PDF documents that can be viewed on a desktop and through a browser… Continue Reading

In this article we will look at the protocol that is involved in sending email messages. We will also examine the thorny issue of how to send an attachment with an email message. This article is the second of two parts….… Continue Reading

If you re already an experienced programmer and you re interested in adding Python to your list of languages this nine-part series gives you a good start. It is excerpted from chapter four of the book em Python in a Nutshell Second Edition em written by Alex Martelli O Reilly… Continue Reading

Welcome to the fifth article in our nine-part series on the Code Igniter framework. In the last article you learned a very simple way to use the framework to check information supplied by users through an HTML form. The type of checking done was very simple however and user-supplied data… Continue Reading

The preg_replace_callback function is an under-utilized and little documented PHP function that you will find useful and powerful in many situations especially if you have been actively using preg_match and preg_replace . In this article you will find a clear explanation of what this function does together with carefully crafted… Continue Reading

PHP has a great many tools for interacting with a network and also with the Internet. In this article we will look at some of those tools and functions to see how we can use them to make our scripts more useful in a network environment. This article is the… Continue Reading

In this conclusion to a five-part series on templating tools you ll learn about filters plugins and more. It is excerpted from chapter three of the book em Advanced Perl Programming Second Edition em written by Simon Cozens O Reilly ISBN 596 4567 . Copyright 2 7 O Reilly Media… Continue Reading

If you re a web developer you ve probably written any number of scripts designed to validate the input entered into a web form. More than likely then you d like something that will make that job easier. Enter the Code Igniter PHP framework. In this fourth part of a… Continue Reading