My Tech Discovery Blog on PHP, Ajax, Security and Web 2.0
In the midst of all the wonderful AJAX libraries in the wild, many today still don’t understand the underlying technologies of AJAX that make it so powerful. In this article php|architect’s publisher Marco Tabini covers JSON, the magic format that makes serializing data between Javascript and other languages (often server-side) a breeze. Simplicity, velocity and power are the gifts of JSON.
Link: JSON and PHP: More Than Web Services — a/r/t by php|architect
So, let’s focus on securing our PHP server, thus barring most of the attacks from the start.Did you ever want to create your own HTML tags and have them displayed in a certain way, or make that tag perform some action? Here’s a tutorial which shows you how to do that by creating HTML widgets in PHP.
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create your own HTML widgets, using nothing more than PHP. You’ll be shown how to use an output buffer to create your own HTML tags, and then replacing them with dynamic content. The tutorial will finish by showing you how to create a Repeater Control.
We had our very first Bangalore PHP meetup on Friday. We had a bunch of PHP people join up at our company terrace, to get the momentum going on meeting up PHP professionals around Bangalore.
One of the key points at the discussion was to start a PHP user group in Bangalore, since there wasn’t one existing already (yep, the IT city doesn’t yet have a PHP user group). As a first step, we’ve setup a mailing list over at Yahoo groups to enable communication between the users.
If you’re interested in joining the group, click on the Join Now button provided below. This is still a new group so we’re still getting the momentum going with discussions and memberships, so do contribute to the discussions over at the group.
Do you find that creating htaccess files are too complex for you? Well here’s something just for you. A htaccess generator, which provides you with options to fill up on a form. When you submit the form, you get your own htaccess file generated based on your selected options.
Link: htaccess Generator
A cool image gallery implemented purely in CSS. The images pop out when you hover over them. There is no Javascript used in this at all.
Link: Hoverbox Image Gallery
If you’d like to know how this is done, you can go through a mini-tutorial over here:
http://sonspring.com/journal/hoverbox-image-gallery
Here’s another example of the same CSS method being used to create a menu system:
Link: Hoverbox Menu
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