Tutorials, thoughts, and rants about programming.
Recently when browsing past issues of php|architect magazine, I came across mention of a Firefox add-on called FirePHP. For those who have not heard of it, FirePHP is both a Firefox add-on and a PHP library used to send messages to the Firebug console.
While PHP Frameworks have become quite popular with web developers over the last two years, they have their drawbacks. They can be bulky and/or bloated, bringing the simplest of tasks into a fold of dependencies and data calls. They can be difficult to administrate remotely – if you use a shared host, some command-line configurations [...]
HTML_QuickForm is a very popular PEAR library that eases form design for the web programmer. It consists of three separate but equally important parts – form components, form renderers, and form validators. The last of these three is the focus of this week’s tutorial.
Web programmers always have to be considerate of the security risks involved [...]