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Learning LAMP web developement – 7. User session management and cookies
Date: 21 Jul 2010 Comments:0What the session is for…
Session data is suppose to hold some information about one particular visitor during his browsing session or even longer. Session data is right place where to store identification information or user after log in, information about his preferences how or what to show on the website, to store some information he [...]
Resolving conflicts in Subversion (SVN)
Date: 6 Jul 2010 Comments:0As I have seen many people not being able to sort out conflict state of their local copy of the project I decided to write a little about it.
First of all why do these conflicts happen.
Subversion unlike for example SourceSafe from Microsoft by default does not require locking of files in repository when you want [...]
Eclipse Helios PDT, PHPEclipse, Smarty and some feelings about it
Date: 28 Jun 2010 Comments: 4 so farNew eclipse version named Helios has been recently released. Let me share my very early feelings about it as from PHP developer view.
First I downloaded and tried Eclipse Helios PDT version as this Eclipse installation is meant for PHP development.
I’m on Linux so downloading, unpacking zip to new folder. Before first run lets backup workspace [...]
Learning LAMP web developement – 6. PHP project organization, framework, libraries and third party code
Date: 14 Jun 2010 Comments:0Source code re-usability is one of the most important things if you plan to keep developing applications for longer. All Internet applications have set of functionalities that are common. These are for example, User management, permissions management, CMS functionality, forums, categories, menus, profiles etc. Therefore you don’t have to write a lot of code from [...]
Read more...Testing Smarty 3 beta and RC performance, comparing with Smarty 2
Date: 4 Jun 2010 Comments:0Smarty is template engine used for separation front-end HTML for designers and back-end PHP for programmers. We’ve been using Smarty 2 for years. Now when Smarty 3 is in Release candidate stage, its time to think about an upgrade. Smarty 3 is rewritten from scratch in PHP 5 and its not suppose to work under [...]
Read more...Website hack through tinyMCE filemanager plugin
Date: 1 Jun 2010 Comments:0Few days ago we realized that one of our client website is not working at all. After short while we found that the site was probably hacked.
This is a server of our client which purpose is mainly to run older non maintained projects. There was also one old Mambo CMS website installation which apart from [...]
Learning LAMP web developement – 5. coding style
Date: 12 May 2010 Comments:0As many opinions as many people. I don’t want to talk here about which coding style is good and which is bad. I’ll tell you what coding habits are good for team development and what are not. If you look at the code of someone you can tell a lot from it. Mainly whether author [...]
Read more...Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installation on Sony Vaio laptop
Date: 4 May 2010 Comments:0Time to upgrade…
This time I decided to do clean installation instead of upgrade of my Ubuntu. I had 2 simple reasons for that, 1. on my SONY VAIO VGN-SZ4VWN/X model I have got 2 G of memory and due to hardware limitations I cannot upgrade event though system is 64 bit. What I did actually [...]
PayPal Express checkout IPN notification bug
Date: 26 Apr 2010 Comments: 4 so farIPN (instant payment notification) is a background call to user script from PayPal which is suppose to notify website owner about payment events. This is complementary non required service website owners can use to detect payment result instantly. To be honest from experience this is must have since too many users get lost in payment [...]
Read more...Antispam measures on websites
Date: 18 Apr 2010 Comments:0Spam on Internet website become a big issue. Nice functionalities like “send the article(product) to a friend” become open email relays. Message boards become lists of porn, hazard and drug advertisement sheets. Contact forms on websites become direct email spam route to website owners.
What are our web-developers options to forbid this? Lets identify how big [...]