1. PHP Email Verification using the MailboxLayer API
Blog: PHP Email Validation Quality package blog
Package: PHP Email Validation Quality
Checking an e-mail address for the proper format is the first and most common method used to determine if an address is valid.
To really put it to the test, we need to take it a step further using real time verification to check DNS records and SMTP servers while excluding known disposable e-mail providers.
While PHP provides some functions for the basic tasks, there is a need to implement more advanced verification to avoid using addresses that are not valid.
Read this article to learn how to implement more advanced verification methods using the MailboxLayer API and the PHP Email Validation Quality package.
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To really put it to the test, we need to take it a step further using real time verification to check DNS records and SMTP servers while excluding known disposable e-mail providers.
While PHP provides some functions for the basic tasks, there is a need to implement more advanced verification to avoid using addresses that are not valid.
Read this article to learn how to implement more advanced verification methods using the MailboxLayer API and the PHP Email Validation Quality package.
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Blog: PHP Base64 Encode and Decode package blog
Package: PHP Base64 Encode and Decode
A base64 algorithm implemented in pure PHP may seem odd because PHP already implements encoding and decoding functions for that purpose as bult-in functions.
Read this article to learn why I developed a class to implement the base64 algorithm in pure PHP.
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Read this article to learn why I developed a class to implement the base64 algorithm in pure PHP.
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Blog: PHP Application Packer package blog
Package: PHP Application Packer
Many PHP developers need to protect their source code when they distribute it to customers, to minimize the chances of their work being altered or copied without their permissions.
Read this article to learn about PHP source code protection solutions in general, and how PackApp package can help protecting your PHP source code.
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Read this article to learn about PHP source code protection solutions in general, and how PackApp package can help protecting your PHP source code.
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Blog: PHP dotGo Engine package blog
Package: PHP dotGo Engine
The DOTGO services can help sites interact with users communicating via SMS messages but to be truly interactive with our users, it is important to remember what we already have learned about them from previous interactions, even if they come back a week later.
Read this article to learn how to do just that by implementing our own engine to manage the logic tasks involved.
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Read this article to learn how to do just that by implementing our own engine to manage the logic tasks involved.
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Blog: PHP AWS S3 SDK Wrapper package blog
Package: PHP AWS S3 SDK Wrapper
Amazon S3 service is one of the most popular cloud storage services that you can use for many purposes like storing backups of important data or serve important files to many users.
Read this article to learn how to easily use Amazon AWS S3 API from PHP to store your files using caching to access the files faster and reducing the service costs.
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Read this article to learn how to easily use Amazon AWS S3 API from PHP to store your files using caching to access the files faster and reducing the service costs.
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Blog: PHP dotGo Engine package blog
Package: PHP dotGo Engine
Setting up your Web site to interact with users through SMS text messages can be exciting. Users send their requests via SMS, your web site sends back responses, pretty cool right? Still, it is not really two-way communication until we can make requests to our users and get their responses.
Read this article to learn how to request users to input information via SMS messages, so your site can retrieve and process the information entered by the users.
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Read this article to learn how to request users to input information via SMS messages, so your site can retrieve and process the information entered by the users.
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Blog: Pak PHP Micro Framework package blog
Package: Pak PHP Micro Framework
The Pak PHP Framework can be used to develop WordPress plugins using PHP Object Oriented Programming.
Read this article to learn how to implement advanced WordPress plugin functionality such as plugin translation, creating dashboard widgets, custom posts and taxonomies, creating a plugin settings page and implementing unit testing.
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Read this article to learn how to implement advanced WordPress plugin functionality such as plugin translation, creating dashboard widgets, custom posts and taxonomies, creating a plugin settings page and implementing unit testing.
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Blog: PHP Ultimate Web Page Capture package blog
Package: PHP Ultimate Web Page Capture
When you need to be able to show pictures of Web site pages, the solution is to browse the page and capture a screenshot. However when you want to do that in an automated way from PHP, you need to somehow emulate the behavior of a browser and screen capture utility.
That is not something easy to achieve in an environment on which you can only run PHP. An alternative solution is to resort to Web services that can capture page screenshots for you.
Read this article to learn how to use the screenshotlayer.com Web service to capture page screens with the ability to scale the image to a given size, as the possibility to inject new styles in the page before the screen is captured to suit your needs.
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That is not something easy to achieve in an environment on which you can only run PHP. An alternative solution is to resort to Web services that can capture page screenshots for you.
Read this article to learn how to use the screenshotlayer.com Web service to capture page screens with the ability to scale the image to a given size, as the possibility to inject new styles in the page before the screen is captured to suit your needs.
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Blog: picStylizer package blog
Package: picStylizer
As Web sites grow they tend to use many images for representing icons, logos and other types of common images. This often leads to delays in loading pages because loading the necessary images requires additional HTTP requests.
An alternative to reduce the number of requests to load the page images is to use sprites images and CSS to load many images at once.
Read this article to learn more about CSS sprites and how you can use them in your PHP sites to improve their page loading speed using the picStylizer package.
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An alternative to reduce the number of requests to load the page images is to use sprites images and CSS to load many images at once.
Read this article to learn more about CSS sprites and how you can use them in your PHP sites to improve their page loading speed using the picStylizer package.
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Blog: PHP Convert Video to GIF package blog
Package: PHP Convert Video to GIF
Many users like to publish their videos online in many sites but some sites only allow them to publish pictures.
In that case an alternative solution to publishing videos is to convert them to the animated GIF format.
Read this article to learn how to convert your videos available online, in sites like YouTube, into animated GIF using a PHP and the GIFLayer Web service.
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In that case an alternative solution to publishing videos is to convert them to the animated GIF format.
Read this article to learn how to convert your videos available online, in sites like YouTube, into animated GIF using a PHP and the GIFLayer Web service.
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