Category Archives: PHP

Download Images with PHP

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Stoimen

As it seems one possible solution while trying to download images with PHP is to write a “client” to do so. Will it be with cURL, Zend Framework or some other tool – it doesn’t matter. However one of the … Continue reading →

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A Memcached Zend_Cache

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Stoimen

Zend_Cache Usually Zend_Cache is used to store cache files on the file system, which can be really fast and useful in most of the cases. However there’s a faster cache mechanism and hopefully it’s supported by Zend_Cache as well. This … Continue reading →

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How to Overcome Zend_Cache_Frontend_Page’s Problem with Cookies

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Stoimen

Zend_Cache_Frontend_Page First of all there are several things to know about Zend Framework and caching. Whenever you work on a big web application caching is one of the mostly used mechanisms of speeding up the app and improve user performance. … Continue reading →

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Some PHP Tips: basename()

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Stoimen

Here’s a quick tip: I’ve an absolute file path “/var/www/html/index.php”, but I need only the file name – index.php. So how do I get it? basename There it is: $filename = basename(’/var/www/html/index.php’); now $filename contains only “index.php”!

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Using PHP’s array_diff in Algorithm Development

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Stoimen

array_diff can be really powerful. Once you’ve to find the different elements between two arrays you’ve to use array_diff. Here’s a case when you can use it while coding a simple algorithm. The Task You’ve one array with tickets of … Continue reading →

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