Rewriting a URL without using the ID with PHP & MySQL
Rewriting a url using the id in a database with PHP and MySQL. Continue reading →
View ArticleBuilding A Facebook Application With AMFPHP
Shows you how to connect a Facebook application to an AMFPHP gateway. Continue reading →
View ArticleExtending Ian Selby’s RESTful API in PHP – Part 1
On a recent project which can be found here I was tasked to build an API so that a series of applications could make calls and log achievements into a centralised database from several locations....
View ArticleExtending Ian Selby’s RESTful API in PHP – Part 2
This blog post follows on from Extending Ian Selby’s RESTful API in PHP – Part 1 and will talk about how to add security to your selected API calls. Continue reading →
View ArticleImage Resizing With PHP – EXIF Orientation Fix
I have been working on a project recently that has incorporated an upload mechanic for images uploaded to our website. The images are then resized into a dimension box that I pass to a function. This...
View ArticleIntegrating Twitter search into your WordPress blog
Recently we had to add a Twitter stream to one of our Facebook tabs for a campaign. I thought I would share with you php code that uses a short code in your Wordpress post and dynamically creates a...
View ArticleTwo Way Encryption Using MySQL 5 & The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Recently I was asked to implement two way encryption security for data that we gathered on a campaign, which we stored in a MySQL table running on one of our servers. Continue reading →
View ArticleUsing the Amazon S3 Service and PHP
Takes you through how to manipulate and transfer image files to the Amazon S3 service without the need to write files to your server. Continue reading →
View ArticleSanitising variables to avoid XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attacks using PHP
Shows a developer how to handle their variables safely and securely using a helpful validation script. Continue reading →
View ArticleRetrieving a YouTube video id from Embed Code using Javascript and PHP
I have been working on a project and came across a feature in my website that would need to take YouTube embed code or even a url and extract the video id for storage in a database. Continue reading →
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