Archive for November, 2006

Quick Solution to Vexing HTTP POST Problem

Posted by Tim on November 30th, 2006

I recently added a new tool to my www.ThePhpPro.com web site.

This tool is a PHP Code Beautifier program.

There has been just one problem. Sometimes when I pasted a huge amount of text into the box, I would get an HTTP error message stating “FORBIDDEN.”
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BumpTop - New Windows Desktop Interface

Posted by Tim on November 19th, 2006

A new metaphor for working on a computer “desktop” has come to my attention.
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New PHP Article

Posted by Tim on November 19th, 2006

Last week I posted a new article to my professional web site. It talks about PHP templates and my approach to this thorny issue. Many people have different opinions about templates - in the article I present what I believe to be a “Best Practice” approach.

You can read the article.

New Products Available

Posted by Tim on November 1st, 2006

I have launched 3 new products on my professional website: www.ThePhpPro.com

I have an ASCII - read keyboard art - CAPTCHA that requires no image libraries for PHP. In fact, it is so backwards compatible, it should work on PHP version 3 with perhaps only a minor change (opening and reading files) needed.

It’s quite clever, you really should go check it out.

I also have packaged the ascii font engine from tppCaptcha and have released a $1 ascii art font package targeted at giving website owners the ability to output email addresses in a form that is readable by humans, but not by machines.

And finally, I have spent the better part of a month taking the code from my AJAX tutorial and polishing it, learning a bunch more about ajax, and packaging it up into a product available for sale. It utilizes connection pooling so multiple connections can be running at once. tppAJAX will prove to be a capable inexpensive AJAX toolkit. It also happens to be on sale (as of the writing of this article) also.