• Preventing Spammers from using your PHP Mail Script

    PHP

    Yet another article on how to prevent spammers from using your mail scripts to send spam. Anyone who has an email address can tell you that spam is one of the great banes of the online world. But it’s not only distant servers owned by the spammers that are to blame. It may even be [...]

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  • Uber-Uploader – An upload script with a progress bar

    PHP

    Here’s a cool upload script which gives you a progress bar while your files are uploading. It’s a collection of PHP and Perl scripts. The Perl script overcomes PHP’s limitation of querying the status of the temporary upload file while it’s in transit. Uber-Uploader is a group of programs written in Perl, PHP and Javascript. [...]

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  • Generating Word Documents on the Fly – Pixelated Dreams

    PHP

    Do you want to create Word Documents on the Fly through your PHP application? Here’s an article which shows you how to create Word Documents in PHP using XSLT. Link: Generating Word Documents on the Fly – Pixelated Dreams

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  • Easier form validation with PHP

    PHP

    Here’s a class from Simon Willison which allows you to create an easy form generation and validation system for PHP. Let’s talk about form validation. Here’s what I would class as the ideal validation system for a form in a web application: 1. The form is displayed; you fill it in. 2. You submit the [...]

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  • MySQL’s Over-looked and Under-worked Slow Query Log

    Databases

    Did you know that you can activate a MySQL to log all queries which take a long time to run? You can use this log to identify queries which may not be optimal and could be bringing down your web application peformance. Here’s a good article on logging slow-queries on MySQL. The slow query log [...]

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  • (IN)SECURE Magazine

    Security

    (IN)SECURE Magazine is a freely available digital security magazine discussing some of the hottest information security topics. It can be distributed only in the form of the original non-modified PDF document. In the latest Issue (March 2006): Best practices in enterprise database protection Quantifying the cost of spyware to the enterprise Security for websites – [...]

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  • FlashObject: Javascript Flash detection and embed script

    Web Development

    FlashObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. It is also very search engine friendly, degrades gracefully, can be used in valid HTML [...]

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  • Parsing Mail with PHP – Derick Rethans

    PHP

    There are lots of implementations on sending mails for PHP, but mail parsers have generally been hard to come by.Here’s a new Pear Package which allows you to easily parse mails in PHP. Check below for a script which uses package to parse mails. < ?php require_once “ezc/Base/base.php”; function __autoload( $className ){ ezcBase::autoload( $className ); [...]

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  • 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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