Posts Tagged "FAQs Help and Tutorials"

• Practical PHP Testing – Free Ebook

  PHP
  

  If you’re new to testing in PHP, and were wondering how to create and run automated tests, here’s an ebook which will help you get the basics right. Practical PHP Testing is an ebook which is a compilation of  articles from Giorgio Sironi’s blog on Practical PHP testing. This book takes you though the basics [...]

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• mbstring Functions by default in PHP

  PHP
  

  Image via Wikipedia When dealing with multiple languages and internalization in PHP, some of the default functions in PHP end up mangling up the unicode characters in PHP. This is evident when you have a lot of funny looking characters coming up on your web page instead of the actual characters. Apart from setting the [...]

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• [Hack] Speed up your WordPress Delivery

  PHP
  Here’s a how-to from AskApache.com which shows you how to improve the delivery of your WordPress blog. The article oulines a few hacks to the WP-Cache plugin to improve the cachability of WordPress. After the Wp-Cache hacks they go on to give you a few lines which you can add to your .htaccess file which [...]

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• How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time

  CSS
  Anthony Short’s got a great article which shares tips on how to get your CSS cross-browser compliant everytime. Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most time consuming tasks for any web designer. We’ve seen many different articles over the net describing common problems and fixes. I’ve collated all the information I could find to create [...]

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• MySQL Error: 1062 Duplicate entry ’0′ for key 1

  Databases
  

  Here’s a problem we had come across today. Whenever we tried inserting data into a certain table, MySQL kept throwing up the following error: mySQL error: 1062 Duplicate entry ’0′ for key 1 After scratching our heads over this one, we tried to alter the table to set the autoincrement field to the next number [...]

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• Power your PHP Business Logic with Excel

  PHP
  I just came across this cool article which shows you how to use Excel to run the business logic of a PHP application. Maarten shows you how to use Excel to calculate the cost of a Car and get these results to show in PHP using the PHPExcel library. Under the covers, the Excel formula [...]

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