4. Better User Interaction with SMS Text Messages using the PHP dotGO Engine
Updated on: 2016-03-01
Posted on: 2016-02-23
Blog: PHP dotGo Engine package blog
Package: PHP dotGo Engine
The DOTGO services can help sites interact with users communicating via SMS messages but to be truly interactive with our users, it is important to remember what we already have learned about them from previous interactions, even if they come back a week later.
Read this article to learn how to do just that by implementing our own engine to manage the logic tasks involved.
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Read this article to learn how to do just that by implementing our own engine to manage the logic tasks involved.
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Updated on: 2016-02-11
Posted on: 2016-02-11
Blog: PHP AWS S3 SDK Wrapper package blog
Package: PHP AWS S3 SDK Wrapper
Amazon S3 service is one of the most popular cloud storage services that you can use for many purposes like storing backups of important data or serve important files to many users.
Read this article to learn how to easily use Amazon AWS S3 API from PHP to store your files using caching to access the files faster and reducing the service costs.
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Read this article to learn how to easily use Amazon AWS S3 API from PHP to store your files using caching to access the files faster and reducing the service costs.
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Updated on: 2016-02-03
Posted on: 2016-02-03
Blog: PHP dotGo Engine package blog
Package: PHP dotGo Engine
Setting up your Web site to interact with users through SMS text messages can be exciting. Users send their requests via SMS, your web site sends back responses, pretty cool right? Still, it is not really two-way communication until we can make requests to our users and get their responses.
Read this article to learn how to request users to input information via SMS messages, so your site can retrieve and process the information entered by the users.
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Read this article to learn how to request users to input information via SMS messages, so your site can retrieve and process the information entered by the users.
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Updated on: 2016-01-23
Posted on: 2016-01-21
Blog: Pak PHP Micro Framework package blog
Package: Pak PHP Micro Framework
The Pak PHP Framework can be used to develop WordPress plugins using PHP Object Oriented Programming.
Read this article to learn how to implement advanced WordPress plugin functionality such as plugin translation, creating dashboard widgets, custom posts and taxonomies, creating a plugin settings page and implementing unit testing.
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Read this article to learn how to implement advanced WordPress plugin functionality such as plugin translation, creating dashboard widgets, custom posts and taxonomies, creating a plugin settings page and implementing unit testing.
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Updated on: 2017-03-23
Posted on: 2016-01-12
Blog: PHP Ultimate Web Page Capture package blog
Package: PHP Ultimate Web Page Capture
When you need to be able to show pictures of Web site pages, the solution is to browse the page and capture a screenshot. However when you want to do that in an automated way from PHP, you need to somehow emulate the behavior of a browser and screen capture utility.
That is not something easy to achieve in an environment on which you can only run PHP. An alternative solution is to resort to Web services that can capture page screenshots for you.
Read this article to learn how to use the screenshotlayer.com Web service to capture page screens with the ability to scale the image to a given size, as the possibility to inject new styles in the page before the screen is captured to suit your needs.
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That is not something easy to achieve in an environment on which you can only run PHP. An alternative solution is to resort to Web services that can capture page screenshots for you.
Read this article to learn how to use the screenshotlayer.com Web service to capture page screens with the ability to scale the image to a given size, as the possibility to inject new styles in the page before the screen is captured to suit your needs.
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Updated on: 2016-01-06
Posted on: 2016-01-06
Blog: picStylizer package blog
Package: picStylizer
As Web sites grow they tend to use many images for representing icons, logos and other types of common images. This often leads to delays in loading pages because loading the necessary images requires additional HTTP requests.
An alternative to reduce the number of requests to load the page images is to use sprites images and CSS to load many images at once.
Read this article to learn more about CSS sprites and how you can use them in your PHP sites to improve their page loading speed using the picStylizer package.
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An alternative to reduce the number of requests to load the page images is to use sprites images and CSS to load many images at once.
Read this article to learn more about CSS sprites and how you can use them in your PHP sites to improve their page loading speed using the picStylizer package.
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Updated on: 2015-12-29
Posted on: 2015-12-29
Blog: PHP Convert Video to GIF package blog
Package: PHP Convert Video to GIF
Many users like to publish their videos online in many sites but some sites only allow them to publish pictures.
In that case an alternative solution to publishing videos is to convert them to the animated GIF format.
Read this article to learn how to convert your videos available online, in sites like YouTube, into animated GIF using a PHP and the GIFLayer Web service.
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In that case an alternative solution to publishing videos is to convert them to the animated GIF format.
Read this article to learn how to convert your videos available online, in sites like YouTube, into animated GIF using a PHP and the GIFLayer Web service.
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Updated on: 2015-12-22
Posted on: 2015-12-22
Blog: PHPR package blog
Package: PHPR
Have you ever forgot what are the parameters of a PHP class method? Or if it returns 0, true or false? We need some more consistency on the way we work with PHP.
Read this article to learn how we can have code that is more consistent and easier to write and maintain.
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Read this article to learn how we can have code that is more consistent and easier to write and maintain.
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Updated on: 2015-12-15
Posted on: 2015-12-15
Blog: Pak PHP Micro Framework package blog
Package: Pak PHP Micro Framework
WordPress plugin development is very popular these days. Users with different levels of experience can develop plugins for WordPress.
One drawback of WordPress development is that WordPress was released before PHP 5, so much of the WordPress code is procedural and can be difficult to organize.
Read this article to learn how to create a Wordpress plugin using OOP based on the Pak PHP Framework.
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One drawback of WordPress development is that WordPress was released before PHP 5, so much of the WordPress code is procedural and can be difficult to organize.
Read this article to learn how to create a Wordpress plugin using OOP based on the Pak PHP Framework.
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Updated on: 2017-03-26
Posted on: 2015-12-08
Blog: Free Phone Number Verification in PHP package blog
Package: Free Phone Number Verification in PHP
This is the time in history where almost everyone has a phone. My children even had phones starting when they where young, mainly for safety reasons. If you really want to know who you are dealing with, get a valid phone number for them.
For businesses it is even more important to verify phone numbers that users enter in their Web sites or mobile apps because they need to make sure the user is supplying the correct number. If a user makes a mistake, the verification SMS will never arrive and the user may give up.
Read this article to learn how to verify a phone number that is calling you using the PHP Phone Number Verification package.
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For businesses it is even more important to verify phone numbers that users enter in their Web sites or mobile apps because they need to make sure the user is supplying the correct number. If a user makes a mistake, the verification SMS will never arrive and the user may give up.
Read this article to learn how to verify a phone number that is calling you using the PHP Phone Number Verification package.
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