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• How to Use UTF-8 with PHP

  

  By simonstl

  Unicode Transformation Format 8-bit (UTF-8) is in standard use by the majority of web application developers. The following excerpt from Cal Henderson's Building Scalable Web Sites explains how to use...

  10 November 2009 - 05:12 PM | 0 Comments
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  • text
  • encoding
  • unicode
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• What are the "Bad Parts" of PHP?

  Asked by juliesteele

  09 November 2009 - 12:13 PM
  

  

  Answered by ChrisBloom7 : Nov 09 2009 03:58 PM
  In a security sense, the "Bad Parts" of PHP are simply bad habits that formed around conveniences included in PHP 4 and earlier. Many hosting companies still run PHP 4 or run insecure versio... full answer >

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• How to remove duplicate lines with regular expressions

  

  By StevenLevithan

  There is a variety of software (including the Unix command-line utility uniq and Windows PowerShell cmdlet Get-Unique) that can help you remove duplicate lines in a file or ...

  30 October 2009 - 08:35 AM | 0 Comments
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  • duplicates
  • regex
  • regular expression
  • .NET
  • java
  • javascript
  • PCRE
  • perl
  • python
  • ruby
  • php

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• How to Add and Delete users to a Web Database using PHP and MySql

  

  By MikeH

  So if you want to learn how to add and delete users to a Web Database using PHP and Mysql, consider reading this chapter out of: Learning PHP, MySQL, and Javascript, 1st Edition I would no...

  02 October 2009 - 11:50 AM | 0 Comments
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  • php
  • mysql
  • tables

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• How to create regular expression objects

  

  By Jan Goyvaerts

  If you want to instantiate a regular expression object or otherwise compile a regular expression so you can use it efficiently throughout your application, try one of t...

  18 September 2009 - 10:51 AM | 0 Comments
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  • php
  • perl
  • javascript
  • java
  • vb.net
  • c#
  • objects
  • regex
  • python
  • ruby

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• How to search line by line with a regular expression

  

  By Jan Goyvaerts

  Traditional grep tools apply your regular expression to one line of text at a time, and display the lines matched (or not matched) by the regular expression. If you hav...

  18 September 2009 - 10:22 AM | 0 Comments
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  • python
  • perl
  • javascript
  • java
  • vb.net
  • c#
  • search
  • regex
  • php
  • ruby

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• How to replace all matches in a regular expression

  

  By Jan Goyvaerts

  If you want to replace all matches of the regular exp​ression before with the replacement text after, try one of the following examples:C#You can use the static call when you process on...

  18 September 2009 - 09:56 AM | 0 Comments
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  • perl
  • php
  • java
  • javascript
  • vb.net
  • c#
  • regex
  • replace
  • python
  • ruby

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• How to find a match within another match in a regular expression

  

  By Jan Goyvaerts

  Suppose you have an HTML file in which various passages are marked as bold with <b> tags. You want to find all numbers marked as bold. If some bold text contains multiple numbers, you want to ma...

  17 September 2009 - 04:46 PM | 0 Comments
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  • php
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• How to determine whether a statement produced a result set in MySQL

  

  By pauldubois

  If you just executed an SQL statement, but you’re not sure whether it produced a result set, check the column count in the metadata. If the count is zero, there is no result ...

  11 September 2009 - 05:27 PM | 0 Comments
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  • mysql
  • php
  • jdbc

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• How to obtain result set metadata in MySQL

  

  By pauldubois

  If you want to know things about the result set, such as the column names and data types, or how many rows and columns there are, use the appropriate capabilities provided by your API.For sta...

  11 September 2009 - 04:24 PM | 0 Comments
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  • php
  • ruby
  • python
  • perl
  • metadata
  • mysql
  • java

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