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Connecting to an imap server using imap_open Thumbnail

Connecting to an imap server using imap_open

php allows you to do a lot of things including reading your email! This IMAP series will show you how to use the built in imap functions that php has to offer. The first is imap_open

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04Jul2010
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Dave
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PHP
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40 Invaluable PHP Tutorials and Resources Thumbnail

40 Invaluable PHP Tutorials and Resources

PHP is one of the most popular scripting languages on the internet today, and one of the easiest to get into. Whether you’re a PHP newbie, or an experienced code-slinger, there is always something new to discover. A function you’re unfamiliar with a killer timesaving tool, a technique that you forgot about

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01Jul2010
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Dave
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CSS
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Force Internet Explorer 8 to render IE 7 or 8 Thumbnail

Force Internet Explorer 8 to render IE 7 or 8

Avoid the headache's of compatibility problems when using Internet Explorer 8 by forcing it to render a particular version. To force internet explorer 8 to render your pages using it's 7 or 8 engine or even 9 once it's out is a simple matter of placing a meta tag in your header and specifying what version of internet explorer to render.

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03May2010
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Dave
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PHP
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How to ping search engines with curl Thumbnail

How to ping search engines with curl

when you add new story or update an existing one it may take a few weeks for search engine bots to re-index your site, I've noticed however that some sites get re-index very shortly after adding or updating content on their website, which got me thinking how did they do it? the answer they ping search engines when ever there's any changes which informs the search engine bots there's been a change and to read the site's sitemap again this process is usually done within a few minutes of sending the ping.

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08Apr2010
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Dave
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CSS
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Create Pure CSS Tooltips Thumbnail

Create Pure CSS Tooltips

Through this code, you can have your own tooltips using just CSS!!

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25Mar2010
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Dave
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Flash
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Sending dynamic data to server and back in flash Thumbnail

Sending dynamic data to server and back in flash

This tutorial shows you how to send data from flash to php then change the data and send back to flash using LoadVars.

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13Mar2010
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Dave
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PHP
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Create an RSS feed with PHP Thumbnail

Create an RSS feed with PHP

This tutorial will explain how to create an RSS feed, That is easy to setup but also validates as a valid feed.

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12Mar2010
Create a simple FTP class Thumbnail

Create a simple FTP class

FTP is well known to all designers/developers to moves files from a local computer to a remote web server, What if you want to copy a file from one server to another? the recommended choice would be to use SSH or telnet but if you don't have access to these then you would download the files via FTP and then upload them to the new location. there may be times where you just want to copy a single file to another server connection via FTP and download then uploading seems a little tedious, a better way is to copy the file directly from the current server to the new server. To do this I'm going to create a simple OOP FTP class that will do the heavy lifting for me and let me repeat the process as many times as required.

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07Feb2010
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Dave
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PHP
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Article pagination with OOP (split article into pages) Thumbnail

Article pagination with OOP (split article into pages)

When you have a long article you may want to split the article into pages. This is easy to do on a static page but what if you have a dynamic page if would be better to let php split the article into pages every time you have a certain tag like say [more].

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03Feb2010
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Dave
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PHP
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Strip tags from a string

From time to time you may need to remove certain tags from a string but leave other tags in tact, This tutorial will show you how to accomplish this.

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