A while ago, I had posted an article about transferring files from one server to another directly, that also included an AJAX demo. An updated version of the AJAX demo is now available to download from this post.
I had always been missing a system like this in Wordpress and Joomla (to install plug ins). This […]

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[An updated version of this code is now available!]
I had always been missing a system like this in Wordpress and Joomla (to install plug ins). This codes snippet lets to transfer files directly from one server to another without having to do a pesky job of downloading them to your computer first and uploading it […]

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What are persistent database connections?
There are two ways that you can use database on PHP,

Open a connection to the database, perform your query and then close it. Repeat the same thing for each and every query or at least each and every page.
Open a connection to the database, perform your query, leave the connection unclosed so that […]

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As web technology evolves, a focus has always been on trying to make a web application act more like a desktop application. This involves the implementations of techniques like AJAX and DOM to make web pages act more swift and sound. In this article we’ll talk about ways to improve the file uploading experience with […]

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AJAX is a soccer club in the dutch league.
You might have heard a thousand times that big websites like gmail or live mail uses AJAX technology. You might think its a component like flash or java applet. Infact its about 5 lines of javascript. So, lets reduce it’s name from AJAX technology to […]

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I used this code when programming a web application that needed to fetch the title from user’s website. It uses Ajax to pull and show the title from a website or webpage. I thought this might help some of my readers so, here is the code:
Download the file: Fetch title from other website
Use/Modify/Distribute the code freely, as you […]

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Have you ever noticed a security image while signing for an account on sites like Google mail or Windows live mail and thought of it as an useless stuff? Infact it is so vital that thousands of websites are using these images called CAPTCHA for anti-spam.
If you reached this page searching for the simplest way to make a […]

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UPDATE:
- I’d like to thank a friend who detected this bug:
Microsoft Windows users, please change the following line:
if (realpath($allowedfilepath).”/$file” …
to,
if (realpath($allowedfilepath).”\\$file” …
 
Serving files through PHP is basically needed in two cases:
1) When you want to count the number of times it has been downloaded.
2) When you don’t want to give direct access to the file from your […]

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Possibility, advantages, disadvantages and procedure of storing session data into a database.
If you are a web application developer or have experience in making PHP programs, you are provably familiar with the concept of session system. Normally, PHP would save your session data into a file inside a folder that you specify using php.ini file.
Since, PHP […]

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