Testing HTML Forms the Automated Way with WATIR

Despite identifying itself as “Web Application Testing in Ruby,” WATIR can perform automated acceptance testing for websites powered by any language, PHP included. All but the simplest HTML forms typically have too many variations to be effectively tested manually. The … Continue reading

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Build a Shopping Cart Admin Tool for PHP Online Store

Your online business is doing well, but a couple of months down the line your online shopping application gets very slow and unresponsive. Why? It could be a number of things, but most likely, because you do not remove redundant … Continue reading

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Build Your Own PHP Web Mailer

In this tutorial you will learn how to create your own PHP Web mailer. You will learn the necessary steps for creating an email account and making connections to the server protocols for sending and receiving email. You also will … Continue reading

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Custom Routes with the Zend Framework

Cleanly constructed (also known as “pretty”) URLs are native to any Zend Framework-powered application, meaning you don’t have to deal with ugly URL rewriting tasks or other programmatic voodoo to implement this convenient feature. Instead, the Zend Framework constructs these … Continue reading

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HTML5 Dangers

You celebrate: it’s the first Friday after your start-up opens its first real office and a round of funding came through. This is going to be a good weekend. HTML5 has the technologies you need to make your idea for … Continue reading

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