Lorna Mitchell's Blog:
Lorna Mitchell has a quick post to her blog today showing how you can use a simple curl call from PHP to shorten urls with bit.ly and pull back the result. I've been looking around for a really simple...
View ArticleLars Tesmer's Blog: How to Unit Test a Class Making Calls to an URL (or the...
Lars Tesmer has a suggestion for all of the unit testers out there (you do unit test your code, right?) when needing to test a piece of code that makes a call to something on the file system or a...
View ArticleSameer Borate's Blog: Grabbing the referrer search engine keywords for a site
On his blog today Sameer Borate has a new post with a handy bit of code you can use to find the keywords from a search engine referral to help with tracking how visitors have come to your site. A...
View ArticleSharon Levy's Blog: PHP Version
Sharon Levy has a new post to her blog showing a trick she's come up with to show the PHP version information (usually found in the phpinfo) even when it's disabled. Sometimes the most crucial, basic...
View ArticleGaurish Patil's Blog: URL rewriting in Yii to hide index.php
In this new post to his blog Gaurish Patil shows users of the Yii framework how they can update their configuration settings to hide the "index.php" in their requests and make cleaner URLs. Finally we...
View ArticleDesign Aeon: Check Dead Links From Database Using PHP CURL
On DesignAeon.com there's a recent tutorial posted showing you how to extract URLs from your database and determine which ones are "dead" automatically with the help of cURL. Checking Deadlinks From...
View ArticleDavid Müller: Why URL validation with filter_var might not be a good idea
David Müller has a new post to his site today showing why validating URLs with filter_var is a good thing for the security of your application. Since PHP 5.2 brought us the filter_var function, the...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Building Your Own URL Shortener
On PHPMaster.com today, there's a new tutorial walking you through the creation of a URL shortner - a simple tool that can be used to compact URLs into something easier to manage (and more friendly...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Generating One-Time Use URLs
On PHPMaster.com there's a new tutorial posted showing you how to generate one-time use URLs that could be used for various things across an application, including things like account verification...
View ArticleAlison Gianotto: Check User-Submitted URLs for Malware and Phishing in Your...
In her latest post Alison Gianotto looks at a few different ways that you can validate any URLs that your users might give you to ensure they're not anything malicious. She looks at two of the major...
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