In programming you quite often want to test a string for the occurrence of a character or group of characters. This is particularly true for such things as data validation on form input boxes. Regular expressions provide a pattern matching …
To help counter SQL injections you need to make sure that entered values use minimum character types as possible. So you restrict usernames to just a-z and 0-9 characters. To test for these, use something like : //—————————————————— /** * …
The paperback version of ‘PHP Tutorials: Programming with MySQL and PHP’ has been updated to include more code examples and published and is available from the Amazon book store. Do a search for the ISBN number 0992869730 or the above …
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A Visual Studio C# application The Amazon Product Advertising API allows you to connect to Amazon, then search and lookup product information such as price details, descriptions and so on. In conjunction with an Amazon Affiliate ID you can make …
There are a number of articles on formatting an e-book for Kindle so I thought I would contribute my thoughts and ideas so far. The most common way to create a Kindle e-book is to use Microsoft Word because it …
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To remove depreciated messages form displays you can use the ~E_DEPRECATED value in the error_reporting function something like the following : error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_NOTICE);
This posts illustrates a relatively simple shopping cart using PHP sessions to store the cart details, quantities and total cart amount. The cart has an ‘add to cart’, ‘remove from cart’ and displays the total value of the cart. This …
The Amazon reviews can have a huge effect on your book sales. You need to be popular to become popular which can be tricky when you first make a book available. You need to drive as many reviews to your …
Creating a stand out front cover is a must to get your book noticed on web sites and in book shop shelves – if you are lucky to get your book that far. The front cover needs to be smart, …
The paperback version of ‘PHP Tutorials: Programming with MySQL and PHP’ has been published and is available from the Amazon book store. Do a search for the ISBN number 0992869730 or the above title should get you there or click …
