1. Improving the Security of Your User Passwords in PHP with Ultra Paranoid Computing
Updated on: 2015-11-04
Posted on: 2015-11-04
Blog: PHP Paranoid Passcode package blog
Package: PHP Paranoid Passcode
Usernames are distributed, passwords are weak and can be broken, personal information can be stolen and bio-metrics can be faked. What devices can you trust to keep you secure? Ultra-Paranoid Computing says none.
Read this article to learn what is Ultra-Paranoid Computing and how can you implement it in PHP to make your users use more secure password entry method.
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Read this article to learn what is Ultra-Paranoid Computing and how can you implement it in PHP to make your users use more secure password entry method.
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Updated on: 2015-11-03
Posted on: 2015-11-03
Blog: PHP Dependency Injection Container package blog
Package: PHP Dependency Injection Container
Dependency injection is a design pattern that is implemented in many of the modern PHP frameworks because it helps organizing better the code of multiple components that depend on the same service of information or behavior.
Read this article to learn what is dependency injection and inversion of control and how it can be implemented in PHP to benefit your projects' structure.
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Read this article to learn what is dependency injection and inversion of control and how it can be implemented in PHP to benefit your projects' structure.
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Updated on: 2015-10-27
Posted on: 2015-10-27
Blog: PHP Google Analytics API Metrics Tracker package blog
Package: PHP Google Analytics API Metrics Tracker
In the first part of this article it was presented a solution to retrieve statistics data from Google Analytics API using PHP but this API also allows recording events.
This can be useful to record accesses to a PHP API that you are providing in your site.
Read this article to learn how to use Google Analytics PHP to track the accesses to a PHP API of your own.
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This can be useful to record accesses to a PHP API that you are providing in your site.
Read this article to learn how to use Google Analytics PHP to track the accesses to a PHP API of your own.
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Updated on: 2015-10-20
Posted on: 2015-10-20
Blog: PHP Google Analytics API Metrics Tracker package blog
Package: PHP Google Analytics API Metrics Tracker
Google Analytics is a popular tool used by many sites to keep track of the statistics of the visitors of the sites.
However, it also provides an API that lets you do more than that, like for instance keeping track of the accesses to the APIs of your own sites, as well building custom user user interfaces to view the access statistics in the way that is most convenient for the site managers.
Read this part of the article to learn how to use the Google Analytics API to retrieve and display your site statistics that you need to generate custom reports.
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However, it also provides an API that lets you do more than that, like for instance keeping track of the accesses to the APIs of your own sites, as well building custom user user interfaces to view the access statistics in the way that is most convenient for the site managers.
Read this part of the article to learn how to use the Google Analytics API to retrieve and display your site statistics that you need to generate custom reports.
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Updated on: 2015-10-05
Posted on: 2015-10-05
Blog: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks package blog
Package: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks
In the previous parts of this article it was presented a solution to run a task on the server that could take a long time to complete and still be able to monitor its progress. However it was limited to running one task at a time.
Read this article to learn how to run multiple long tasks on the server in parallel taking the most of the available server resources. You can also watch a video of the example solution in action.
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Read this article to learn how to run multiple long tasks on the server in parallel taking the most of the available server resources. You can also watch a video of the example solution in action.
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Updated on: 2015-12-10
Posted on: 2015-09-30
Blog: PHP OAuth Library package blog
Package: PHP OAuth Library
Twitter API allows applications to access users' direct messages but if you want to download images or other media associated with those direct messages, there is no specific API call to do so.
Direct messages are private, so there is no public URL to access the direct messages' images without using OAuth or you are a real logged user accessing Twitter via a browser.
Read this article to learn how to download images that belong to direct messages using authenticated requests with this PHP OAuth client class.
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Direct messages are private, so there is no public URL to access the direct messages' images without using OAuth or you are a real logged user accessing Twitter via a browser.
Read this article to learn how to download images that belong to direct messages using authenticated requests with this PHP OAuth client class.
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Updated on: 2015-09-29
Posted on: 2015-09-28
Blog: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks package blog
Package: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks
In the first part of this article we have presented a solution to start tasks from PHP that take a long time to finish.
Read this article to learn how to implement the solution with the PHP class package named "Asynchronous Long Server Tasks".
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Read this article to learn how to implement the solution with the PHP class package named "Asynchronous Long Server Tasks".
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Updated on: 2015-09-22
Posted on: 2015-09-22
Blog: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks package blog
Package: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks
Typical HTTP requests take no more than a few seconds. By default PHP limits script execution to 30 seconds. However, sometimes you need to execute tasks that much longer.
Read this article to learn how to start long tasks without making the user wait and still give progress information of a long task running on the server side.
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Read this article to learn how to start long tasks without making the user wait and still give progress information of a long task running on the server side.
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Updated on: 2017-04-15
Posted on: 2015-09-21
Blog: Shopping Cart package blog
Package: Shopping Cart
The first part of this tutorial article covered the importance of shopping carts in sites that sell products and how to make a simple shopping cart that can add products from a database via an AJAX based Web interface.
Read this part of the article to learn how to perform other important operations like removing products or empty the shopping cart and how to proceed to the checkout.
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Read this part of the article to learn how to perform other important operations like removing products or empty the shopping cart and how to proceed to the checkout.
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Updated on: 2015-09-15
Posted on: 2015-09-15
Blog: PHP Preemptive Cache package blog
Package: PHP Preemptive Cache
One way to improve the performance of slow scripts is to use caching techniques to minimize the time to retrieve data that takes a long time to compute.
Read this article to learn how to apply the Preemptive Cache class in practice to optimize the performance of scripts that retrieve data from databases.
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Read this article to learn how to apply the Preemptive Cache class in practice to optimize the performance of scripts that retrieve data from databases.
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