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Quick Tip: 7 PHP Functions for Beginners

Have you ever taken a look at the list of functions available in PHP? Andrew Burgess just counted 5025 on the PHP quick reference page. Granted, it depends on what extensions you have enabled, but still: that’s one heap of functions! While he can’t show you every one of them, if you’re new to the language, he will introduce you to seven really handy ones in this quick tip! Let's get started.

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5 PHP Security Measures

For many years, PHP has been a stable, inexpensive platform on which to operate web-based applications. Like most web-based platforms, PHP is vulnerable to external attacks. Developers, database architects and system administrators should take precautions before deploying PHP applications to a live server. Most of these techniques can be accomplished with a few lines of code or a slight adjustment to the application settings.

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How to Process Credit Cards with PayPal

PayPal is one of the most popular payment processing platforms available today for many reasons. Its ease of use and its connection to the eBay platform are just the tip of the iceberg. While one of its most popular features is the ability to simply sign in to your PayPal account to submit payments, merchants using PayPal can also accept credit cards directly just like a traditional merchant account solution would provide.

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Create a Jigsaw Puzzle

Almost everyone, at one point during childhood, has played jigsaw puzzles. Today Rakhitha Nimesh is going to show you how to create a jigsaw puzzle using jQuery and PHP. Lets start creating puzzles. First thing you have to do is choose an image for the puzzle. Only jpg images can be used in this example. He is going to use the 1stwebdesigner header image for the puzzle. Once you choose the image it has to be split into smaller images to create the puzzle components.

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Aspect-Oriented Programming in PHP

There’s a new player in town, and he brought new toys: The PHP World welcomes FLOW3, an enterprise application framework written and backed by the community of the TYPO3 CMS. FLOW3 can be used as standalone full-stack framework for your applications. It’s interesting, because it introduces some concepts of software development that haven’t been adapted to PHP before. Among these new concepts is “Aspect Oriented Programming”.

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Create Instagram Filters With PHP

In this tutorial, Dejan Marjanovic will demonstrate how to create vintage (just like Instagram does) photos with PHP and ImageMagick. Wait? What? Yes, you can do this very thing with PHP and ImageMagick, and that’s just scratching the surface! Once upon a time – technically 22 years ago (5 years before PHP) – ImageMagick was released. Since then, it has evolved to a platform independent software suite that can create, edit, compose, or convert raster images (over 100 formats supported!). Read More
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PHP Arrays: Array Functions and Multidimensional Arrays

In this article, we will look at other array functions as well as multidimensional arrays. The difference between one-dimensional and multidimensional arrays is a simple one: a multidimensional array is a simple array that has simple arrays as elements, rather than strings or scalar variables.

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Building a PHP Ad Tracker: Creating the Database Tables

Banner ads for services related to the web site owner’s industry allow customers to view products that tie into the site owner’s core business. In exchange, the web site owner can charge the banner ad owner for every impression (banner ad appearance) or click-through (when a user clicks the banner ad).

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10 PHP Snippets You Probably Haven’t Seen

When working with PHP, it is very useful to have a “toolbox” of handy functions and code snippets that can save lots of time when needed. Today, we’re going to show you 10 super useful code snippets that you probably never heard of.

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Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP

This is the season to be jolly, and how much jollier could we make it than with a helpful Christmas wish list crafted for your family to ensure that you get maximum presentage this holiday? In this article, we will focus on creating a very simple system that allows you to add gift ideas to a Web page, and for your family (or whoever) to view the list.

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