In: PHP| Web Design
7 Jan 2010PHP: The Overview
PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. Reading the title alone can alert you to the fact that this is a server-side processing language that reveals itself in the form of HTML. The most common use of this is web forms. Data is sent from the client to the web server. Information is processed and [...]
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7 Jan 2010Quarterly sales figures, industry contacts, profit margin trends… you name it. Data is the lifeblood of any company. All employees, from the intern preparing a Powerpoint presentation for the middle manager to the dogged sales representative trying to woo a major prospect, require easy and convenient access to all manner of corporate information. The first [...]
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7 Jan 2010CAPTCHA is a very simple and common protection that helps prevent spam and the automatic submission of an operation by some kind of program or robot. CAPTCHA protection is used on web site forms and works by generating a random string, writing it to an image, then storing the string inside of a session. Then, [...]
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7 Jan 2010Email plays a crucial role in website development, whether you’d like to confirm a new registrant’s email address, recover a lost password, or provide prospective clients with a convenient means to contact you. But, although languages such as PHP come packaged with the ability to send email (in PHP’s case, using the aptly named mail() [...]
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24 Dec 2009If you’re running a sizable website, chances are you’re going to have to pass information from page to page. Unfortunately with PHP, most data is confined to one page. However, there are ways around this, which I will go over in this tutorial.
The basics, forms
Forms are one of the most basic ways to get from [...]
