http://www.devshed.com PHP - RSS Feeds en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:32:24 -0500 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:32:24 -0500 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:00:01 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Adding-Ordering-and-Grouping-Clauses-to-the-CodeIgniter-Library-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss - And now that you know what to expect from this series of articles, its time to refresh the topics that were discussed in the last one. In that part of the series I explained how to add some chainable methods to the already familiar “AbstractModel” class, which was a pretty useful add-on for CodeI...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Adding-Ordering-and-Grouping-Clauses-to-the-CodeIgniter-Library-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:00:01 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Implementing-Factory-Methods-in-PHP-5/?kc=rss - To be honest, I grappled with factory methods in Java myself, but in the end I learned not only how to quickly build factory methods in Java classes, but how to implement those methods in PHP as well. While it's undeniable that PHP is easier to learn than Java, many PHP developers with long e...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Implementing-Factory-Methods-in-PHP-5/?kc=rss Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:01 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Merging-a-File-Split-for-FTP-Upload-using-PHP/?kc=rss - As discussed before, once all the split parts of the file have been uploaded to the FTP server, you can safely recombine them into one file again (this is the merging process) using the PHP file merging script. Example: File splitting process Before we start the merging process, lets look at an a...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Merging-a-File-Split-for-FTP-Upload-using-PHP/?kc=rss Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:01 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Getting-Data-from-Yahoo-Site-Explorer-Inbound-Links-API-using-PHP/?kc=rss - The Basic Request and Response PHP Script Yahoo Site Explorer's inbound links API provides sample PHP code to make requests and for receiving responses. The API documentation for using PHP in the application can be found in two places, here and here. The sample script at the second link is a very ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Getting-Data-from-Yahoo-Site-Explorer-Inbound-Links-API-using-PHP/?kc=rss Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:06 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Method-Chaining-Adding-More-Selecting-Methods-to-the-CodeIgniter-Library/?kc=rss - While its not going to change forever the way that PHP developers build their web applications, method chaining is a solid programming approach that permits them to build classes that have highly compact and modular interfaces. So, if youre always looking for new ways to improve your existing deve...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Method-Chaining-Adding-More-Selecting-Methods-to-the-CodeIgniter-Library/?kc=rss Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:03 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/How-to-Split-a-File-During-an-FTP-Upload-Using-PHP/?kc=rss - Of course, some files that are important for web site functionality exceed 500 KB. For example, if you are running a web application that needs a geo IP database, a typical file for the geo IP DAT file is around 1.1MB. So this cannot be uploaded as one batch because it exceeds the upload limit of ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/How-to-Split-a-File-During-an-FTP-Upload-Using-PHP/?kc=rss Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:00:01 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Expanding-a-Custom-CodeIgniter-Library-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss - Naturally, if you already read the preceding article of the series, at this point you have a clearer idea of how to apply the method chaining approach to building a customized model class for CodeIgniter. In that tutorial I started to create such a class. It had the ability to fetch and insert/upd...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Expanding-a-Custom-CodeIgniter-Library-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:02 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Using-the-Yahoo-Site-Explorer-Inbound-Links-API/?kc=rss - If you belong to the search engine marketing industry, one of the most important decision making problems can be found in search engine optimization (SEO). You will need to do analysis of both your competitor's and your own web sites. In SEO aimed at Google, one of the most important factors to e...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Using-the-Yahoo-Site-Explorer-Inbound-Links-API/?kc=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:00:01 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-a-CodeIgniter-Custom-Library-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss - In case you havent explored it in depth yet, method chaining is a useful programming methodology that permits you to build highly modular and compact APIs when using the object-oriented paradigm. This isnt a proprietary feature of a specific programming language; however, its possible to implement...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-a-CodeIgniter-Custom-Library-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:00:06 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-an-Emini-Trading-System-Using-PHP-and-Advanced-MySQL-Queries/?kc=rss - This is also called E-mini S amp;P 500 futures, one of the most commonly traded equities/futures. The Design As of September 2009, there was no currently working trading system on the Internet powered by PHP and MySQL despite the platform's popularity among open source communities. A trading sys...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-an-Emini-Trading-System-Using-PHP-and-Advanced-MySQL-Queries/?kc=rss Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:00:05 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Completing-the-MySQL-Class-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss - Indeed, learning how to create chainable methods in PHP 5 class is a pretty straightforward process that will make your own classes more compact and modular as well. Therefore, I suggest you read this series of articles; in it, you'll find an approachable guide that will show you the basics of usin...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Completing-the-MySQL-Class-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:00:03 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-Dynamic-Queries-with-Chainable-Methods/?kc=rss - And now that you have been gently introduced to the main goal of this multi-part series, its time to quickly summarize the topics that were discussed in the last installment. In that article I explained how to create a simple, yet useful MySQL abstraction class. It was composed of a few straightf...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-Dynamic-Queries-with-Chainable-Methods/?kc=rss Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:00:01 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/PHP-Encryption-and-Decryption-Methods/?kc=rss - You might have seen encrypted PHP scripts which may look like the one below: lt;?php eval(gzinflate(base64_decode('FZfHDoTYEUV/ZXYzIxbkJFseAU1qcg4bi9TknPl64z0SUK/ evef8859///NHcSTdX+VTD78u2Yq/0mQtCOy/ eZGNefHXn0L8kz5jKAueDcZhVNSnh9+OYd6flsK+PCKjqtEnIJoRtF3TO+ GH4UyCIED/st8VD9APjg8Nj+m1ysH0OIj...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/PHP-Encryption-and-Decryption-Methods/?kc=rss Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-a-MySQL-Abstraction-Class-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss - Put it in a simple way, method chaining is a handy programming methodology that allows you to create classes whose methods can be easily linked to each other, thus building a highly compact API. Building chainable methods is not a proprietary approach supported by a particular programming language...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-a-MySQL-Abstraction-Class-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:00:02 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Completing-a-Sample-String-Processor-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss - Method chaining is a simple, yet powerful, programming approach that permits you to write classes whose methods can be easily linked with each other, thus building a modular and highly-compact API. Logically, as with other methodologies, chainable methods are not a proprietary feature of a particula...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Completing-a-Sample-String-Processor-with-Method-Chaining/?kc=rss