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Arrays and PHP: A Primer
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Introduction to PHP Regular Expressions (#1): General Mechanics
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Anyone that has to do a large sum of unusual data manipulation will always choose to use regular expressions (regex) over native functions because of one thing: power. In PHP the ereg_ functions are what utilize ERE POSIX, and the preg_ functions utilize PCRE. In this introduction to regular expressions the author will assume no prior knowledge of regex, and will try to give you the most thorough explanation of this powerful tool as possible.
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Unix man pages and resources
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Over 150,000 pages of unix manual pages, and open source documentation in multiple languages + documentation on php, and python in multiple languages
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COM Functions in PHP4 (Windows)
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The built-in COM functionality of PHP4 is quite attractive for some of us programming in the win32 environment. So far, there is not much documentation on the subject. This short article will explain how to use COM in real PHP4 programming with three examples using MS office 2000 Word and Excel programs and the Adobe Distiller program.
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Introduction to If Else Statements - Part 2
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This tutorial is a follow-on to the Introduction to If Else Statements - Part 1. Here we show you how to exercise your mind utilizing If Else Statements to build an online 5 star rating system that allows users to vote on your content.
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A HOWTO on Optimizing PHP
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PHP is a very fast programming language, but there is more to optimizing PHP than just speed of code execution. This article explains why optimizing PHP involves many factors which are not code related, and why tuning PHP requires an understanding of how PHP performs in relation to all the other subsystems on your server, and then identifying bottlenecks caused by these subsystems and fixing them. It also covers how to tune and optimize your PHP scripts so they run even faster.
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