Posts made in March, 2006

  • FakeMail to test your Application

    Software

    Ever been in a situation where you had to test mails from your web application but couldn’t get the mails properly? Here’s something for you : Fakemail is a dummy SMTP gateway written in Perl. It’s a tool for testing applications that works by acting as an intercept for outgoing mails. Fakemail works by intercepting [...]

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  • Security in an AJAX World

    Ajax

    Here’s an interesting article on Ajax Applications and security. It won’t be long before content hijackers take over your XML data which you’re using for your Ajax applications. If data is more openly available as XML over HTTP, it’s going to be pretty damn easy for a smart hacker to get access to that data [...]

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  • Web Testing with Selenium

    Software

    Here’s a testing tool for web applications which is easy to use and has a firefox plugin to record and play test runs was developed by team of programmers and testers at ThoughtWorks. Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just as real users do. And they [...]

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  • Spice up PHP applications with OpenLaszlo, Part 1: Create interactive interfaces

    PHP

    An interesting article from IBM on using PHP with OpenLaszlo. This “Spice up PHP applications with OpenLaszlo” tutorial series shows you how to use OpenLaszlo to create a more interactive interface for your PHP applications and how to use PHP to create more dynamic OpenLaszlo applications. It requires a basic understanding of — or willingness [...]

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  • AJAX Real Time Online Visitors

    Ajax

    A tutorial from phpmagazine.net which show you how to create an online visitor display using PHP and Ajax. “There is many techniques to track online visitors with PHP, in this example I used the most simple one. The script check the sessions online and then consider the recent ones in an interval of about 3 [...]

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  • PHP Life – Comic Strip

    Sites

    Here’s a cool comic strip for PHP developers. Get more of PHP Life at: < ?PHP Life?>

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  • Email Header Injection in PHP

    PHP

    Here’s an interesting article on Email Header Injection, a method spammers use to hijack your contact forms to send our mails. The article goes on to show how to protect the contact form from being abused. It has become apparent that spammers are getting even smarter than we take them for. Rather than abuse open [...]

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  • IP Banning with PHP

    PHP

    By: Jacob Manser (lefteh) Blocking certain IP addresses from your site is actually much easier than you might think. In fact, it is only a seven-line code inserted at the top of your page! The code: 1 : < ?php 2 : $banned = array(“24.91.102.173″, “64.21.162.113″); 3 : if (in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $banned)) { 4 : echo [...]

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  • My-BIC = Easy Ajax

    Ajax

    Here’s a framework for Ajax which is trying to make Ajax programming a lot easier and simpler. My-BIC provides support for XML, JSON and Text based Ajax transactions and works on Safari, Firefox, IE and Opera. Submitting forms with ajax used to be a pain, you had to create your own query strings and send [...]

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  • Setting up a PHP Proxy Server

    PHP

    Ever been in a situation where you couldn’t access sites because your ISP or sysadmin has been blocking access. Here’s your chance to set up your own proxy server to bypass the firewalls and proxy. If you’ve got access to an external server with Apache and PHP installed, head over and get PHProxy and install [...]

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