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Everyone knows how critical a good search engine is to the success of a website, but most developers—even well-seasoned ones—don’t know how to code a search engine themselves. In this article, Larry...
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Larry Ullman explains not only the syntax of OOP in PHP 5 and later, but the key underlying OOP theories as well.
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It isn’t too long into your web development career before you get to a point where you can store and retrieve plain-text data in your sleep. Being strong in this area is important, as plain text is the...
View ArticleArticle :: Creating a Shopping Cart Class Using Object-Oriented Programming...
E-commerce is clearly one of the most prominent uses of PHP today, a trend that’s certain to continue. An e-commerce site can be created in many ways, whether that means using a third-party application...
View ArticleArticle :: Making Sure Your Users' Passwords Are Secure
One way to improve the security of your sites is to beef up your methodologies for storing and handling user passwords. In this article, web developer Larry Ullman explains how to more securely store...
View ArticleArticle :: Social Media Authentication and Authorization Using PHP
Social media authentication—the ability to log in to a site using your Twitter, Facebook, or similar account—has been well embraced by users and websites alike. Rather than forcing users to create new...
View ArticleArticle :: Flow of Control in Python
In this chapter from Python: Visual QuickStart Guide, 3rd Edition, Toby Donaldson shows how to change the order in which statements are executed by using if-statements and loops. Both are essential in...
View ArticleArticle :: Setting Up Your Workspace in Xcode
A true workspace in Xcode is a container that encompasses multiple projects that share common resources. This chapter shows you how to create an application suite consisting of an OS X application, an...
View ArticleArticle :: Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL: User Accounts
Learn how to create and manage user accounts for a simple e-commerce system using PHP and MySQL.
View ArticleArticle :: Writing Functions and Closures in Swift
In this chapter from Swift for Beginners: Develop and Design, you’ll learn how to tidy up your Swift code into nice clean reusable components called functions.
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