Unhandled Perception

Codepad is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool

Not too sure why you would use this as it seems a little dangerous (your code is stored on their server).  Enlighten me, why would I need this?

Link: http://codepad.org/

Regular expressions are the PHP programmer’s equivalent of being audited by the IRS. The mere thought of an encounter is enough to cause heart palpitations. This isn’t entirely without reason; after all, regular expression syntax is almost as indecipherable as the United States tax code, resulting in an almost automatic need to consult a manual every time the programmer needs to perform a particularly complex parsing task.

Link: http://www.phpbuilder.com/…

In case you don’t know, SimplePie is a way to parse your RSS items with PHP. This means that if you want to make a custom feed for yourself, SimplePie makes it… well simple. I’ve taken 14 of the top tutorials out there and put them into a nice list just for you.

SimplePie makes working with RSS Feeds a snap.

Sample of what can be done with SimplePie:

• HorseUrls: http://horseurls.com/
• Restaurant Industry News: http://openmenu.com/industry/

Link: http://thedesigned.com/…

Today we are making an Advanced Event Timeline with the help of PHP, MySQL, CSS & jQuery, that will display a pretty time line with clickable events. Adding new ones is going to be as easy as inserting a row in the database.

Link: http://tutorialzine.com/…

PHP for Android project (PFA) aims to make PHP development in Android not only possible but also feasible providing tools and documentation.

Link: http://phpforandroid.net/

At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling close to half a billion active users. This article takes a look at some of the software and techniques they use to accomplish that. – Facebook serves 570 billion page views per month.

Link: http://royal.pingdom.com/…

PHP Security involves minimizing programming errors as much as possible, and putting proper code in place to protect against possible vulnerabilities – Often times this means putting 2-3 “layers” of protection in place to guard sensitive data against hackers that could otherwise cause a catastrophic result if compromised. Developers call this principle of redundant safeguarding Defense in Depth, and this concept has been proven over the years to be an extremely effective defense against malicious attacks.

Link: http://www.noupe.com/php/php-security-tips.html

If you are looking for a powerful file manager ready to use in your web projects and simple to customize, take a look at this list with the best and free file manager currently in circulation. Some of these file managers support PHP only or javascript only or Ajax that will give you powerful tool to easily browse directories & files on the server, search, upload and download files, edit, copy, move, delete files and more.

Link: http://devsnippets.com/article/ajax/…

With billions of photos processed each month, and 10′s of millions faces recognized to date, face.com is operating the largest face recognition platform on the cloud. We’re extending our services to the developers community to make it easy to integrate with your services. We offer our platform services both a free and premium licensing, depending on your needs. We offer services for detecting,  recognizing, and tagging faces in any photo, through our REST API.

Need more hours in the day as I have some ideas for a web application using this facial recognition platform.

Link: http://developers.face.com/

In order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your website availability and send an email or sms alert to you if it isn’t.

Article Link: http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/…

Here’s Veign’s PHP class for checking a URL or array of URLs

Aqua
A management tool for the MySQL relational database w/ administration capabilities and a database query tool. The visual administration features provide users the ability to browse and modify database structures, including schema objects, database storage and maintain database security. An integrated query tool allows users to quickly create, edit and execute SQL queries and scripts.

MySQL Quick Admin
A kinda of clone of phpMyAdmin. Has full support for managing databases and tables online through its clean interface (from what I can tell). This might be a good solution for someone not wanting the often complex and overwhelming interface of phpMyAdmin.

phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats and is available in 54 languages. This is the standard for managing MySQL database online.

MySQL Query Browser
The easiest visual tool for creating, executing, and optimizing SQL queries for your MySQL Database Server. The MySQL Query Browser gives you a complete set of drag-and-drop tools to visually build, analyze and manage your queries.

MySQL Administrator
A powerful visual administration tool that makes it easy to administer and monitor your MySQL environment and gain significantly better visibility into how your databases are operating. MySQL Administrator now integrates database management and maintenance into a single, seamless environment, with a clear and intuitive graphical user interface.

MySQL Workbench
a database modeling tool for MySQL. You can use it to design and create new database schemas, document existing databases and even perform complex migrations to MySQL. Not a lot of movement with this project in a very long time and the reason why DB Designer Fork should be checked out first.

DB Designer Fork
DB Designer Fork is a fork of the fabFORCE DBDesigner 4. DBDesigner is a visual database design system that integrates entity relationship design and database creation. DB Designer Fork generates SQL scripts for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and FireBird.

Navicat
A powerful MySQL database administration and development tool that is not only sophisticated enough for professional developers, but also easy to learn for new users.

Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL
Simplifies the life of a Database Administrator who needs an easy-to-use yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL server.

TurboDbAdmin
A single-page solution for exploring and editing databases from a browser. Edit data just like you would in a desktop application, without submit buttons or page refreshes.

Toad for MySQL
A database development and administration tool that provides productivity features for rapidly creating and executing queries and managing complex database systems.

SQLyog
An advanced GUI frontend to MySQL. Includes Visual Query Builder, Visual Schema Designer, Smart Autocomplete, Intelligent Code Completion, Scheduled Data Synchronization, Powerful Migration Toolkit and much more.

WinSQL
WinSQL can talk to any database for which you have an ODBC driver and be the one interface to manage them all.

Applications Manager’s MySQL
Applications Manager’s MySQL monitoring feature has the ability to connect to the database source & monitor various system table column values, collect data, etc. and also notify through alerts, if the database system properties are beyond a given threshold. Applications Manager provides a web client that allows you to visualize MySQL monitoring data from your database tier alongside your application tiers.

HeidiSQL
An easy-to-use interface and a “working-horse” for web-developers using the popular MySQL-Database. It allows you to manage and browse your databases and tables from an intuitive Windows interface.

Decent list of PHP optimization tips:
http://phptutorial.bizhat.com/…

In this article, I’ll introduce you to the fundamentals of PHP. We’ll focus on using PHP to access Web services and on turning static HTML pages into dynamic ones by retrieving data from the Web and by showing different content depending on what the user has entered in a form or requested in the URL.

You won’t come out a professional PHP developer, but you’ll be well on your way to building a small page that uses Web services. You can find a lot of great PHP info on the Web, and most of the time you will end up on PHP.net itself. But I was asked repeatedly on several hack days and competitions to write this quick introduction article, so here it is.

Great into for anyone who wants to develop, or learn about, but hasn’t started…

Link:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…

PHP 5.3 offers a slew of new language features, many of which were developed to assist framework and library developers. Most of the time, these features are straight-forward, and you can simply use them; in other cases, however, we’ve run into behaviors that were unexpected. This post will detail several of these, so you either don’t run into the same issues — or can capitalize on some of our discoveries.

Link:
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/archives/…

Every website on the internet faces a similar threat, hackers. Every single website can be a target of a hacker if security measures aren’t implemented properly especially when it comes to login pages where our most sensitive data are being held. Hence, there is a need to better understand how well your login page has been implemented to be considered as really secure. In this article, you will get a list of PHP secure login tips and tricks that will definitely help you decide on your secure rating of your login page.

Link:
http://hungred.com/useful-information/…