Website Development

If you are building a website and have dynamic content that needs search engine friendly URL’s automatically generated from a title this article may be of interest.

I see a lot of code that use a blacklist approach to accomplish this task, here I introduce the whitelist approach and a simple function that can convert any user provided string into a safe URL that can be used as a URL without worrying about invalid characters.

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Tags: PHP, Tips

If you’ve ever need to stop a browser from remembering the text your enter into a form field such as a password field and have not come across the autocomplete=”off” parameter read on….
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Tags: CMS, Tips, XHTML

PHP 5.3 alpha1 was released 1st August 2008, you can see the news entry for this here.

Along with this alpha release are quite a few drastic changes and some cool new features.

Firstly it says ‘The PHP 5.3.0 branch will only support Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, and Server 2008. Support has been dropped for Windows 98, ME, and NT.’.

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Tags: PHP, PHP5

If your a PHP developer this handy little variable can often be overlooked.
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Tags: PHP, PHP5, Tips

With Apache comes the ability to create a custom 404 Not Found error page, in this article I highlight a simple method I use to leverage the power of this handy little feature.

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Tags: .htaccess, Apache, CMS, PHP, Tips

justPHP.co.uk now have a blog at phpblog.info

You can keep up to date with the latest developments, news, tips, tricks and grumbles among other useful and maybe not so useful stuff through the justPHP blog. Subscribe to the RSS feed to be notified when new posts become available.

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