Category Archives: PHP

Mavericks, XAMPP and Sendmail Oh My!

I develop web applications on my MacBook Pro.  I’ve recently upgraded to Mavericks and changed over from MAMP to XAMPP.  One thing that we all have to do at some point is create email notifications.  Whether that takes the form … Continue reading

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Cooking with Laravel

I’ve recently added a new Laravel 4 book Laravel Application Development Cookbook written by Terry Matula and available from PacktPub to my library.  I would consider myself a very good PHP developer, and have been searching for a framework to … Continue reading

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Goodbye Save Button

I’ve always been amazed at web applications such as Asana, where in this case, you’re creating a project in a notepad fashion, not really viewing all the ugly squares on an underlying rigidly structured form.  You click, or press a … Continue reading

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PHP and Word’s special characters

Sick of users copying and pasting Word content into your web forms?  We all know you end up with all their special characters ending up as ? in your text.  This recently happened to me and I had to fix … Continue reading

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Forcing SSL with PHP

Occasionally you have a registration form, login page or other php item that should be secured.  Its easy to link to something securely, however, some people play with urls ( I know, gasp ), search engines might get to the … Continue reading

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ezSQL – database wrapper/abstraction layer

I was looking for a database wrapper / abstraction layer to use for PHP a couple weeks ago.  I’m working on a large PHP project and its using Oracle.  I started out with the app using oci calls throughout.  Launched … Continue reading

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