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Securing PHP Contact Forms

Jan 9, 2007Comments

Pixel Acres has a great writeup on securing PHP contact forms. Using header injection is a huge concern for developers and site owners as it allows spammers to abuse your web forms to send out their nasty SPAM.
The writeup covers the whole process to give you a great understanding of how it works and [...]

MySQL Date Queries

Jan 8, 2007Comments

Jen Fletcher has a great and easy writeup on performing MySQL Date Queries. There are many times where I would simply create the dates necessary in PHP and then insert them in to my query, but these methods are great to know. Especially the one’s for Month-to-Date, Year-to-Date and Previous Month.

How to Parse XML Using PHP

Jan 6, 2007Comments

Jen Fletcher has posted a very helpful tutorial that will teach you How to Parse XML Using PHP.
Although this isn’t the only way to parse XML with PHP, this is a good example. What I like about this example is that she shows you how to create a form and code that works with [...]

Generating Dynamic CSS with PHP

Jan 6, 2007Comments

Digital Web has a great article/tutorial on Generating Dynamic CSS with PHP.
How to store and reuse values in style sheets is a quite popular discussion across many forums and mailing lists. The tutorial focuses on using PHP as the programming language of choice to accomplish generating dynamic CSS.
The tutorial will walk you through the [...]