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• How to Use UTF-8 with PHP

  

  By simonstl : 10 November 2009 - 05:12 PM

  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...

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  • UTF-8
  • 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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  • PHP
  • good parts
  • bad parts

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• How to remove duplicate lines with regular expressions

  

  By StevenLevithan : 30 October 2009 - 08:35 AM

  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 ...

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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 : 02 October 2009 - 11:50 AM

  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...

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  • php
  • mysql
  • tables

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• How to create regular expression objects

  

  By Jan Goyvaerts : 18 September 2009 - 10:51 AM

  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...

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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 : 18 September 2009 - 10:22 AM

  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...

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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 : 18 September 2009 - 09:56 AM

  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...

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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 : 17 September 2009 - 04:46 PM

  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...

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  • ruby
  • python
  • perl
  • php
  • javascript
  • java
  • vb.net
  • c#
  • regex

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• How to determine whether a statement produced a result set in MySQL

  

  By pauldubois : 11 September 2009 - 05:27 PM

  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 ...

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  • mysql
  • php
  • jdbc

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• How to obtain result set metadata in MySQL

  

  By pauldubois : 11 September 2009 - 04:24 PM

  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...

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  • php
  • ruby
  • python
  • perl
  • metadata
  • mysql
  • java

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