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June 14, 2006

Regular Expression Testing Tool

Really neat online tool for testing out your PHP (and other languages) regex’s. Simply enter your regular expression and some test data and the script will show you the output. With its simple and easy to use interface, this is a very valuable tool for anyone dealing with regexps; beginners and advanced users alike.

May 23, 2006

PHP5 Benchmarks

Compare common PHP5 functions such as building arrays, parsing variables and generating random numbers with older PHP4 functions. Some surprising data, however most seems to be in the 1-2% range.

May 12, 2006

Build RSS reader using AJAX and PHP

Learn how to build an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader, as well as a Web component that you can place on any Web site to look at the articles in the RSS feeds.

May 11, 2006

Using script.aculo.us with PHP for a Member Managment System

One of the most common request of people learning PHP is that they want to make a member system thing. That’s what we’re going to do, only cooler. I’m going to try and teach you some basic concepts of JavaScript and PHP so that you can take this code and make it [...]

May 5, 2006

PHP 5.1.4 Released

PHP 5.1.4 has just been released. It fixes the critical bug with $_POST array handling discovered in PHP 5.1.3, check the changelog for other fixes.

May 2, 2006

Convert HTML to PDF with PHP

dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) CSS2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer: it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML [...]