Monthly Archives: May 2010

PHP Functions: realpath()

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Stoimen

Watch Out – Hard Code Perhaps every developer knows that hard coded paths are no good! The code’s good to be flexible and extensible, but what the way to achieve that? In a typically developed application you’re completely sure the … Continue reading →

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Check YouTube Video Existence with Zend_Gdata_YouTube

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Stoimen

The Video Has Been Removed?! Have you ever seen the famous message on YouTube: “This video has been removed by the user.”, but what if you’re trying to grab that video via the Zend_Gdata_YouTube? That can happen when you’re reading … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, zend framework | Tagged API, Computing, e->, Entertainment/Culture, GData, google, http, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, PHP programming language, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, Web application frameworks, World Wide Web, YouTube, YouTube Inc, zend framework | Leave a comment

PHP Associative Arrays Coding Style

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Stoimen

No PHP programmer writes code without arrays. Sound strange, but as many programmers there are, as many ways to format the array notation there are. My advice is to rely on a defined standard. I personally use the Zend Framework’s … Continue reading →

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PHP: The Array Element Doesn’t Exist – Suppress the Warnings

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Stoimen

What’s the problem? If you code PHP from couple of hours you are probably familiar with the following problem: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); $arr = array(); echo $arr[3]; ?> … Continue reading →

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Using rand() for a CAPTCHA!

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Stoimen

What if you have to add a simple CAPTCHA for a web form asking the user to sum two numbers. Will you prefer to use rand() to generate those two numbers? Some may say this is too predictable!

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