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Record locking in Web applications

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 04:52:52 -0800

In this article we describe how to implement record locking in web applications. Because of the stateless nature of HTTP, you cannot really know whether the user left the page or is still looking at your site. We used the lock confirmation technique combined with lock expiration to solve this problem.

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BBCode editor

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:14:18 -0800

As soon as you�ve decided to implement BBCode in your software product, we propose you to examine the jquery.BBCode plugin. This Jquery library plugin is a simple BBCode editor with preview option, which can be easily placed on any website.

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Show different content to search engine visitors

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:05:00 -0800

Perhaps, you face a task to show slightly different information to different website visitors. We decided to address this issue by implementing a generic JavaScript solution.

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Creating Word, Excel and CSV files with PHP

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:31:13 -0800

In this article we demonstrate several ways to create Microsoft Word and Excel documents, and also CSV files using PHP. Learn how to create files using HTTP headers, COM objects, OpenOffice templates, fputcsv function.

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Debugging PHP with Xdebug

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:17:53 -0700

The Xdebug is the extension for PHP that helps debugging PHP scripts by providing a lot of valuable debug information. Using the Xdebug you can debug your scripts in the Notepad++ and other PHP IDEs.

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Sending email with ASP

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:51:51 -0700

In this article we demonstrate how to generate and send emails with ASP using CDOSYS - Microsoft's improved interface for SMTP email. You will learn how to send text and html emails, emails with attachments, use a remote server, load recipients from a database, set the priority / importance of an email and request a read/return receipt.

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Reading the "clean" text from PDF with PHP

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:13:47 -0700

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created for document exchange. Let's read the plain text from the PDF file.

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PHP: Reading the "clean" text from RTF

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:00:05 -0700

Rich Text Format (often abbreviated as RTF), to surprise of many, is quite complex text data format. During its long history RTF bought a lot of add-ons that disturb the process of getting "clean" text. Let's try to solve that...

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Reading the "clean" text from DOCX and ODT with PHP

Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:12:46 -0700

In this article we will resolve the task of reading the �clean� text from the Office Open XML (more known as DOCX) and OpenDocument Format ODT using PHP. Note that we are not going to apply any third-party software.

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Using Regular Expressions with PHP

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:57:37 -0700

Regular expressions are a powerful tool for examining and modifying text. They enable you to search for patterns within a string, extracting matches flexibly and precisely. This tutorial gives a brief overview of basic regular expression syntax and then considers the functions that PHP provides for working with regular expressions.

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