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1. Starting Long Server PHP Scripts and Monitor their Status Part 1: The Theory

Updated on: 2015-09-22

Posted on: 2015-09-22

Blog: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks package blog
Package: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks

Typical HTTP requests take no more than a few seconds. By default PHP limits script execution to 30 seconds. However, sometimes you need to execute tasks that much longer.

Read this article to learn how to start long tasks without making the user wait and still give progress information of a long task running on the server side.

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2. AJAX Shopping Cart with jQuery and PHP and MySQL Part 2: How to Remove and Add to Cart in PHP code with AJAX using a Simple PHP Checkout Script

Updated on: 2017-04-15

Posted on: 2015-09-21

Blog: Shopping Cart package blog
Package: Shopping Cart

The first part of this tutorial article covered the importance of shopping carts in sites that sell products and how to make a simple shopping cart that can add products from a database via an AJAX based Web interface.

Read this part of the article to learn how to perform other important operations like removing products or empty the shopping cart and how to proceed to the checkout.

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2. Improving Your PHP Code Performance Part 2: Tuning with Preemptive Caching

Updated on: 2015-09-15

Posted on: 2015-09-15

Blog: PHP Preemptive Cache package blog
Package: PHP Preemptive Cache

One way to improve the performance of slow scripts is to use caching techniques to minimize the time to retrieve data that takes a long time to compute.

Read this article to learn how to apply the Preemptive Cache class in practice to optimize the performance of scripts that retrieve data from databases.

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1. How to Create a Simple Online PHP Shopping Cart Script Tutorial Step by Step Part 1: Add to Cart in PHP Example Source Code with HTML, AJAX, jQuery and MySQL - Demo Script using a Basket stored in Session Variables

Updated on: 2019-10-07

Posted on: 2015-09-09

Blog: Shopping Cart package blog
Package: Shopping Cart

Many sites need to sell products online. There are many PHP e-commerce platforms but when you need something simple and easy, such platforms may be too much to adapt for your needs.

Read this article to learn how to implement a shopping cart that you can easily customize using PHP and a MySQL database to let your users view and pick the products they want to buy with fast user interface based on AJAX.

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1. Improving Your PHP Code Performance Part 1: Profiling and Detecting Slow Code

Updated on: 2015-09-08

Posted on: 2015-09-08

Blog: PHP Preemptive Cache package blog
Package: PHP Preemptive Cache

Sometimes we have to deal with PHP code that takes longer to run than it should. When that happens we tend to keep trying to figure the causes and take every opportunity to improve the code. Sometimes it is not enough to clean up or refactor the code.

Read this article to learn techniques to detect what PHP code is causing your application to run so slow.

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2. Calculating Periodical Events in PHP Part 2: Solving a Real World Problem

Updated on: 2015-09-07

Posted on: 2015-09-07

Blog: PHP Sweepstakes package blog
Package: PHP Sweepstakes

In the first part of this article it was covered the problem of computing the dates of periodical events and nuances that can make the solution more complicated.

Read this article to learn how to use the PHP Sweepstakes package to solve a real world example of the problem.

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2. Sentiment Analysis in PHP Part 2: Applying the Solution in Practice

Updated on: 2015-09-01

Posted on: 2015-09-01

Blog: PHP Sentiment Analyzer package blog
Package: PHP Sentiment Analyzer

In the first part of this article we learned about the theory of analyzing a text to determine the sentiments expressed by the user that wrote it.

Read this article to learn to how to implement a sentiment analysis application in practice based on the PHP Sentiment Analyzer class.

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1. Calculating Periodical Events in PHP Part 1: The Problem Challenges

Updated on: 2015-08-31

Posted on: 2015-08-31

Blog: PHP Sweepstakes package blog
Package: PHP Sweepstakes

Sometimes it is necessary to calculate the days of periodical events, like for instance sweepstakes, contests, regular publications, etc..

In general, it is an easy problem to solve. However when the events span multiple days and must not occur in holidays, the problem becomes less trival to solve.

Read this article to learn how you can use the PHP Sweepstakes class to compute the days of regular event taking in account these nuances that may complicate the calculations.

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1. PHP Sentiment Analysis Code Part 1: N-gram based PHP Text Analysis

Updated on: 2017-04-05

Posted on: 2015-08-24

Blog: PHP Sentiment Analyzer package blog
Package: PHP Sentiment Analyzer

With growth of people that go on the Internet to express their opinions about brands and other matters, Sentiment Analysis tools are becoming increasingly important to help companies and individuals to react in a timely manner to incidents that affect their business and reputation.

Fortunately we already have the Machine Learning technology necessary to implement sentiment analysis even using pure PHP code.

Read this article to learn more about how you can implement your own sentiment analysis tools in your PHP own applications.

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1. RemoteAnyWindowsServiceOnAnyMachine

Updated on: 2015-08-18

Posted on: 2015-08-18

Blog: Windows Service PowerShell Remoting package blog
Package: Windows Service PowerShell Remoting

Yes you can control any service running on any machine using PHP

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