Unhandled Perception

When scripting in PHP, we often restrict ourselves to a limited number of API functions: the common ones, like print(), header(), define(), isset(), htmlspecialchars(), etc. If some needed functionality doesn’t exist, we often write it making use of these basic components which we have in mind. The PHP API actually offers a lot of functionality, some useless and some useful; often seldom used. I have been looking through the available functions and was interested to find some really cool functions that I should have known about. Here, I share my findings.

Link:
http://infinity-infinity.com/…

Solving programming puzzles is a fun way to develop your logical and problem solving abilities. Also, when you’re familiarizing yourself with a new programming language, solving puzzles for that language can help speed up the learning process.

Here are the top 10 popular programming puzzle sites that will help test your thinking and improve your programming, problem solving, and logical thinking skills.

Link:
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/…

Google Analytics is an outstanding website analytics tool that gives you way more information about your website than you probably need. Better to get more than you want than not enough, right? Anyways I check my website statistics more often than I should and it ends up taking a few minutes to get logged in, select the right site, select the current day, etc. I found a great Google Analytics PHP API that allows me to get just the statistics I’m looking for.

Link:
http://davidwalsh.name/…

Swift Mailer integrates into any web app written in PHP 5, offering a flexible and elegant object-oriented approach to sending emails with a multitude of features.

Link:
http://swiftmailer.org/

Our PHP obfuscator application encodes and obfuscates PHP code to make the output difficult to reverse engineer. The application requires no pre-modifications to your code and no additional components on your server. This product allows for encoding of functions, variables and the removal of whitespace.

Link:
http://www.raizlabs.com/software/phpobfuscator/

Unfortunately there will always be some one out there on the world wide web who will attempt to break any thing they can find on the internet so you owe it to your visitors/ members to ensure nothing malicious is being hidden on your site and there info isn’t being stolen. In this article i will cover 5 important steps you need to take to make sure your web site’s secure.

Talks about:

1. MySql Injection
2. CSRF Attacks
3. XSS
4. Script functionality
5. Error reporting

Link:
http://www.tutdepot.com/tutorials/…

Quick link since I don’t know too much about this PHP component.

mPDF is a PHP class which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. It is based on FPDF, HTML2FPDF, and UFPDF, with a number of enhancements.

If anyone gives this a test drive stop back and let me know what you think. How well it worked and how close was the PDF to the rendered HTML.

Link:
http://mpdf.bpm1.com/

1. Getting an eCommerce site in WordPress running in 5 minutes - Using WP e-commerce you can setup a simple, but effective in some cases, ecommerce solution in WordPress. If you have a blog and are looking to test the waters of selling some products than this plugin will get you going faster than any other solution.

2. How to Create an Online Store with Google Checkout in 5 Minutes - With the recent release of the Google Checkout store widget Google has made it easier to add Google Checkout into your website. This means you can get a Google based store up and running in minutes, or 5 minutes, as the title states.

3. VirtueMart for Joomla or Mamabo - I don’t know too much about this shopping cart but at first look it definitely is an option I will consider for anyone running Joomla. The only downside I can see is that the resulting interface is *very* Joomla like and not the prettiest thing I have seen. Still it’s an option.

4. Magento - An up and coming leader in the open-source, PHP based, full-features, shopping cart solution. A little tricky to install but the feature rich application makes it something worth the effort. Add to that all the great information on Magento that’s around and you won’t be left alone to struggle through it. warning: Read the Magento requirements as some hosts will not meet them.

5. Paypal - Probably one of the most common names in payment gateways. PayPal’s Website Payment Pro gives you a payment gateway and merchant account all-in-one. This makes it one of the easiest methods to take credit cards on your website.

a basic installation of Yourls, a server-based webapp that can run pretty much anywhere a WordPress installation can. There are lots of other options, which we’ll get to as well, but Yourls is a fairly smart and fast way to get up and running with your own URL shortener.

Link:
http://lifehacker.com/5335216/…

In this tutorial you will learn how to build a PHP script that scrapes links from any web page.

Link:
http://www.merchantos.com/…

Magento is the eCommerce software platform for growth that promises to revolutionize the industry. Its modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility

Magento:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/

Magento Demo:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/demo

Magento Wiki:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/

Getting Started with Magento
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/…

Easy E-Commerce With Magento:
http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/…

Magento: Beginner’s Guide (Paperback) – Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847195946/…

25+ Magento Templates For Your E-Commerce Business:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…

30 High Quality Magento Templates To Spice Up Your E-commerce Projects:
http://www.webdesignbooth.com/…

68KB is an open source PHP MySQL driven knowledge base script. Built with you in mind to make it easy to configure and setup.

Link:
http://68kb.com/

A quick overview before we dive into code, in today’s tutorial we will go over two slightly different methods of creating pretty URLs using HTACCESS. The difference between the methods is whether Apache or PHP is doing the heavy lifting to break the URL apart for parsing. I want to point out that mod_rewrite tutorials are almost as old as the internet itself and this is not the first. At the end I will use one of the methods to create a simple application to show how these solutions would look in a real-live website (well not 100% production quality).

Link:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/…

Regular expressions are a very useful tool for developers. They allow to find, identify or replace text, words or any kind of characters. In this article, I have compiled 15+ extremely useful regular expressions that any web developer should have in his toolkit.

Link:
http://www.catswhocode.com/…