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Applied regular expressions in PHP: Provisioning the Linksys PAP2T

Lee Schlesinger

October 24, 2008 9:00:00 AM

The Linksys PAP2T is an analog telephone adapter (ATA) widely used in VoIP applications to connect an analog phone to a digital IP network. Some PAP2T units are locked and dedicated to a particular VoIP service. Others are capable of using a process called provisioning to ensure that important parameters remain fixed despite local attempts to change them. By employing open source tools such as PHP and MySQL, you can manage these latter kinds of units while they are out in the field.

Add a Google map to your PHP site

Lee Schlesinger

August 01, 2008 9:00:00 AM

With the GoogleMapAPI project, you can easily add a Google Map to your PHP Web site.

Add a Google map to your PHP site

Lee Schlesinger

August 01, 2008 9:00:00 AM

With the GoogleMapAPI project, you can easily add a Google Map to your PHP Web site.

Three ways to test Web form input with a CAPTCHA

Lee Schlesinger

April 14, 2008 4:00:00 PM

Many Web forms these days feature a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) as an effort to stop people from setting up computers to automatically fill in Web forms. A typical CAPTCHA is an image with some numbers and letters in it with distortion and/or background noise, and a Web form input field where you are to enter the numbers and letters from the image. This article investigates three CAPTCHA applications that you can use on a PHP Web site.

Search file servers from the Web with libferris and PHP

Lee Schlesinger

January 30, 2008 9:00:00 AM

Libferris allows you to index and perform full text search on a number of file formats, including PDF, manual pages, and office documents. The recent availability of packages of libferris and its dependencies for Fedora, Ubuntu, and openSUSE makes it simpler to use the library to provide a file server search interface for the Web. Libferris was initially created to provide a virtual filesystem interface, similar to GnomeVFS and KDE's KIO. Over time libferris has gained sophisticated support for indexing and searching filesystems.

Zend Studio weds Eclipse

Lee Schlesinger

January 22, 2008 4:00:00 PM

With today's release of Zend Studio for Eclipse, Zend has made Zend Studio, which we reviewed last year, even better.

Quick custom text ad placement in WordPress blog categories

Lee Schlesinger

May 18, 2007 8:00:00 AM

WordPress plugins abound for Google AdSense and other third-party text ad brokers, but what happens when someone wants to buy ad space directly from you, on a specific category page in your blog? You can easily add static HTML text ads to your category search result pages by creating category-specific page templates.

Continuous integration with PHP

Lee Schlesinger

March 12, 2007 7:00:00 AM

Large development projects can be difficult to manage. With multiple developers committing source code to one source tree, there are going to be times when code breaks and will not work. Running automated builds and tests on code can drastically reduce the time and effort developers spend fixing issues by catching them early. This process is called continuous integration. This article provides an overview of how to implement continuous integration in a PHP project using tools written in PHP.

Upcoming PHP release will offer Unicode support

Lee Schlesinger

February 28, 2007 8:00:00 AM

Andrei Zmievski is one of the leading developers of the PHP programming language. Since March 2005, he has been working with about 20 other developers to add Unicode support to version 6.0 of PHP. Now their efforts are nearing an alpha release.

Volunteers make Vancouver PHP Conference work

Lee Schlesinger

February 15, 2007 8:00:00 AM

More than 225 developers attended the second Vancouver PHP Conference at the University of British Columbia's Downtown Campus in Vancouver Canada this week. Organized by the Vancouver PHP Users Group, the conference attracted many of the best-known names in the PHP world, including Rasmus Lerdorf, Andrei Zmievski, Damien Seguy, and Zak Greant. The result was a well-rounded conference that shows what an experienced group of volunteer organizers can accomplish.

Increase PHP programming productivity with Zend Studio

Lee Schlesinger

February 06, 2007 8:00:00 AM

Looking for an integrated development environment (IDE) for your PHP coding? Zend Studio, which launched its latest version 5.5 in December, offers an impressive feature list that can increase the productivity of even novice programmers.

A DIY calendar control in PHP

Lee Schlesinger

January 24, 2007 8:00:00 AM

As a former ASP.Net coder, I've missed the convenience of Microsoft's built-in Calendar Control since I switched to doing Web site development in PHP. On a recent project I needed the ability to display a calendar with dates serving as hyperlinks to selected database items. I decided to use the opportunity to write some portable PHP code that I could use in other projects.

Exploiting Amazon Web Services via PHP and SQLite

Lee Schlesinger

March 10, 2006 8:00:00 AM

A few weeks ago a friend asked me how my book, Pro OpenSSH, was selling on Amazon.com. I was tracking the sales by going to Amazon.com and viewing the book page to examine the sales rank. The only data displayed about history information was today's Sales Rank and Yesterday's Sales Rank, which isn't all that helpful. I decided to use PHP, SQLite, and the Amazon Web Services API to gather more useful data.

Smarty templating and presentation library for PHP

Lee Schlesinger

December 09, 2005 8:00:00 AM

PHP has historically been a simple scripting language used for quickly developing small web sites with dynamic content. But newer features have given the language the structure and libraries for building larger applications. One such library is Smarty, a templating and presentation engine. Smarty helps developers build applications in modules by separating the presentation layer from the application code. This article covers some of the basic features of Smarty for developers.

Review: NuSphere PhpED 4.0

Lee Schlesinger

November 09, 2005 8:00:00 AM

NuSphere's PhpED 4 is a welcome upgrade to a Windows integrated development environment (IDE) that has been around since 2000. The "Ed" in "PhpED" stands for "enterprise developer," and this product is aimed primarily at the experienced PHP developer.

Filesystem data visualization using JPGraph

roblimo

March 10, 2005 8:00:00 AM

JPGraph is a set of programs written in PHP that plots data into a wide range of graphs and formats the results. Licensed under the Trolltech QPL License, JPGraph is now at Version 1.17. Whatever your data, JPGraph can help you to view it graphically, letting you to see relations in more clearly. Such data visualization may not be important to a computer, but, to a person, it can make a lot of difference to analysis.

Create a data dashboard with PHP and a browser

Lee Schlesinger

November 08, 2004 8:00:00 AM

How many times have you needed a quick and dirty method of displaying data, in a "dashboard" format, that everybody could easily view? Everybody has a Web browser, so why not use that for your dashboard? PHP and Apache make it easy. Here's how you can take a text file, evaluate the content using PHP, then display results on a browser dashboard.

PHP 5's new look

Lee Schlesinger

October 19, 2004 8:00:00 AM

In July Zend Technologies announced the latest version of PHP, the widely used scripting language for Web programming. Version 5 incorporates a series of substantial enhancements over previous releases. Here's an introduction to some of the new features.

International PHP Conference in Amsterdam

Lee Schlesinger

May 13, 2004 8:00:00 AM

Last week I attended the International PHP Conference in Amsterdam. There was a small exhibition, but the main attraction was the large number of lectures by well-known PHP gurus. The first day was reserved for two whole-day "Power Workshops," where the audience got an elaborate introduction to either PEAR or XML processing in PHP 5. During the last two days there were almost 30 shorter sessions about various topics.

Zend, Sun bringing PHP to the enterprise

CJ Preimesberger

November 03, 2003 8:00:00 AM

Zend Technologies, parent company of the popular open source PHP Web scripting engine, today will announce a major partnership deal with Sun Microsystems in a move that may well advance PHP's position in the major leagues of e-business.

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