Take Control Of Your Web Project 2: Configuration File

Friday, 16 November 2012 | Jason Slater

The PHP.INI file, the core configuration file for PHP based software development, specifies what should happen to a supported software development, or website, on a default global basis – from how to send emails to specifying the maximum size of … Read More

PHP: Webpage expired warning in Browser

Wednesday, 19 August 2009 | Jason Slater

One of the early problems I happened upon during my search engine development research project was the problem of clicking the back button in the browser. As the number of links in the project increases so too does the likelihood … Read More

Book Review: RESTful Web Services by Samisa Abeysinghe

Saturday, 6 December 2008 | Jason Slater

Two of my particular technology interests are Internet technologies and software development and I have recently been reading a book called “RESTful PHP Web Services” by Samisa Abeysinghe and published by Packt Publishing.

Having written about Web 2.0 throughout … Read More

PHP: Establish Class for MySQL Connections

Tuesday, 18 November 2008 | Jason Slater

Basic Class for creating a database connection

Class MySQLConnection { // ———————– // variable initialisation // ———————– var $SERVER = “hostname”; // Server name var $USER = “dbusername”; // Database username var $PWD = “dbpassword”; // Database password var $DBNAME … Read More

PHP: Removing HTML Tags from Strings

Tuesday, 28 October 2008 | Jason Slater | 2 Comments

Using text fields on web based forms to obtain information from a website user can often lead to unexpected string inputs. A typical unexpected input might be a field that asks a user to submit a link and a description – spammers … Read More