Posts Tagged ‘php’
Planning a Facebook Application: Part Two
Posted on December 5, 2008 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
I know I promised you that we’d get into some code in the next part in this series, but the article is coming out much longer than I anticipated, as I expect it to be one of the most thorough articles out there regarding Facebook application design. Part two of this series will walk through [...]
Planning Your Facebook Application
Posted on September 27, 2008 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
This is part one of a series – the technical how-to of creating the application will be discussed in a separate article. This article is intended to help you plan out your application to best prepare for coding and best leverage the new aspects of Facebook for exposure and social interaction.
Identify and Fix SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Posted on July 1, 2008 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development, Windows Downloads
Scrawlr is a free software for scanning SQL injection vulnerabilities on your web applications, developed by HP Web Security Research Group in coordination with Microsoft Security Response Center.
Creating a Multi-Level Listbox in PHP/mySQL
Posted on June 19, 2006 by snipe in PHP/mySQL
This lets you create a nested multi-level category menu through PHP and mySQL. Using a recursive function, we can display an unlimited number of nested categories, for a drop down box that might look like this: Fruit – Apples —->Red Delicious —->Granny Smith
Checkboxes/Multiple Select Boxes in PHP
Posted on June 19, 2006 by snipe in PHP/mySQL
For the PHP newbie, checkboxes and/or multiple select listboxes can be baffling in the beginning. It’s actually not very hard at all, and is often one of the PHP newbie’s first experience with arrays.
More About register_globals
Posted on June 23, 2005 by snipe in PHP/mySQL
If you’ve been directed to this page, that means that you’re complaining about how your variables in a POST or GET aren’t being carried over to the next page. You’ve been sent here because its an *extremely* common pitfall, and yet one that is exceptionally easy to work around if you know what to do [...]
Cropped Thumbnails using PHP and the GD Library
Posted on June 28, 2004 by snipe in PHP/mySQL
This code will allow you to create a thumbnail from a segment of the image. In some situations, you want to thumbnail an entire image – but other times, you may want only a piece – for example if you wish to generate square thumbnail images regardless of whether or not the original image is [...]
Dynamic Watermarks/Text Overlay on Images in PHP
Posted on June 27, 2004 by snipe in PHP/mySQL
This code can be useful for a number of things, such as making dynamic banners or for adding a copyright type of watermark to photographs or artwork (as we do in snipe gallery). As usual, this will not work for gifs unless you have a version of gd that lets you do that (cuz the [...]
Dynamic thumbnailing with PHP and the GD library
Posted on June 27, 2004 by snipe in PHP/mySQL
Although there are loads of ways you can do this, for this example, we’re assuming that the fullsize image is located in a directory called “images”, and the thumbnails will have the same name as the fullsize, but will be copied into a directory called “thumbs”. <?php // find out the current size info $photo_filename [...]
Dynamic thumbnailing with PHP and Imagemagick
Posted on June 27, 2004 by snipe in PHP/mySQL
This code formatting is a little off, since the WYSIWG editor seems to have eaten part of it. Sorry. <?php /* ———————————————- */ /* ———— BEGIN PHP SNIPPET —————-*/ /* ———————————————- */ // specify your file details $current_file = “image.jpg”; $max_width = “150″; // get the current info on the file $current_size = getimagesize($current_file); $current_img_width [...]
Sending HTML/Plain Text Mail Simultaneously using PHP
Posted on June 29, 2002 by snipe in PHP/mySQL
Although I expect this article to cause a few ruffled feathers amongst the programming community (since most of them are against HTML email), there are times when the client will ask for it anyway, so you have to know how to do it. We had run into difficulty finding a straight answer on this topic, [...]
