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2. The Fastest Ways to Deliver Email in PHP

Posted on: 2011-03-23
Blog: MIME E-mail message sending package blog
Package: MIME E-mail message sending

There are several ways to send e-mail messages in PHP. When you need to send many e-mail newsletters as fast as you can, it matters to understand which way is the fastest.

This article describes the different ways to send e-mail in PHP and comments which one would be fastest depending on your circumstances.

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8. Validating PHP Form Inputs Depending Other Inputs

Posted on: 2011-03-10
Blog: Forms generation and validation package blog
Package: Forms generation and validation

Sometimes you have PHP generated pages with forms that have fields which you may want to validate or not depending on the state of other fields.

This article tells how you can easily implement conditional validation logic by explaining how to make one field be validated only if a radio or checkbox is site or some other special custom logic that you need to implement.

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143. Is PHP really loosing popularity for Python and C#? PHP Innovation Award of 2010 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 9

Posted on: 2011-02-28

The winner of the PHP Programming Innovation Award was announced. Rochak Chauhan was invited for an interview to talk about his award on episode 9 of the Lately in PHP podcast, hosted as usual by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert.

The three also discuss the latest developments of the TIOBE programming languages ranking. The latest numbers seem to suggest that languages like Python and C# are gaining popularity supposedly at the expense of an apparent loss of interest on PHP.

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142. Featured articles about your classes

Posted on: 2011-02-23

The PHPClasses site is introducing a new feature that allows class developers to post special articles about their classes which become featured in the main PHP Classes blog.

The idea is to give more visibility to the work of the class developers by exposing to a greater audience certain articles about their classes which may be interesting to users of the site that are not yet users of those classes.

Only certain posts will get the featured article privilege. This posts explains how it works.

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141. PHP 2010 review and 2011 expectations, PHP bug fix releases and Chrome OS relevance - Lately in PHP podcast episode 8

Posted on: 2011-01-31

On episode 8 of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert review the most important happenings of the PHP world in 2010 and what they expect for 2011.

They also comment on the latest PHP bug fix releases and discuss why Chrome OS matters to PHP developers and Web application developers in general.

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140. Does Google Chrome OS matter?

Posted on: 2011-01-25

If you are a Web developer that is a question that you probably have been asking yourself since Google Chrome OS buzz started.

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139. PHP Zeitgeist 2010: What PHP developers have been looking for in the last year?

Posted on: 2011-01-03

PHP Zeitgeist is an initiative similar to Google Zeitgeist for presenting information about what PHP developers have been looking for in the latest times.

The PHP Zeitgeist 2010 edition was just published. This article presents an analysis about PHP developers search trends during 2010.

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138. 2010: Yet another great year for PHP

Posted on: 2010-12-23

2010 was an year full of interesting happenings for the PHP development and its community of developers.

This article presents a balance of what were the most important happenings in the PHP community in 2010, as well a reflection of what we can expect for 2011 for PHP, as well for the PHPClasses site.

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137. Hardware Accelerated PHP, PHP 5.3.4, PHP 5.4 hold off, mod_PageSpeed and AJAX 2 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 7

Posted on: 2010-11-30

On this episode of Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert discuss the proposal of using video card GPUs to accelerate PHP.

They also comment on the upcoming release of PHP 5.3.4 expected for mid-December, as well the PHP 5.4 hold off debate that has been going on due mostly to the lack of consensus between core developers.

Apart from those PHP issues, they also comment of accelerating Web pages using Google mod_PageSpeed Apache 2 module, as well about the new features of XMLHttpRequest Level 2 JavaScript object to implement AJAX applications.

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136. AJAX 2: New possibilities offered by XMLHttpRequest level 2 specification

Posted on: 2010-11-23

AJAX applications are often implemented using the XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object.

XMLHttpRequest is getting a new specification named Level 2. This post is just a quick note about another interesting article about what new specification brings and how you can take advantage of it in your AJAX applications.

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