Downloading – Stable or Alpha Version Step one is downloading CakePHP . The first problem that you’ll run into is that there are two (2) versions to pick from: ** Stable 1.1 and Alpha 1.2 **. When I first started out, I needed to use CakePHP for…
How and why to use the Apache proxy server
Even if you have no interest in serving web pages from your new OS X box, there’s at least one feature of Apache (the built-in web server) that you might want to put to use – the proxy server. A proxy server is nothing more than a server which…
Using reCAPTCHA with PHP
What is Captcha? A CAPTCHA is a challenge response test used on computers to check if the user is human. A common kind of CAPTCHA that is used on websites requires that the visitor type the letters and numbers of a distorted image. This method…
Can you use PHP without frameworks nowadays?
The PHP community mindset For example, I met Ilia Alshanetsky, a contributor to the PHP core, at the PHP Barcelona conference in October. He said he’s not considering frameworks in his work. I don’t know if he meant going procedural or only…
How to convert HTML to WordPress Theme?
WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS), which allows us to generate cool websites or blogs with thousands of themes and plug-ins available as well as permit to create our own theme by converting HTML. Here we contribute the article on…
PHP :: How To Use Serverside Validation
Where are we? You know how to get data from a form, and validate it. You know how to use a validation function. Let’s improve the way that’s done. Again. This lesson’s goals By the end of this lesson, you should: Know how to have the HTML for…