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One of the numerous good points of the PHP programming language is its extensibility. In this article, I’m going to show you 10+ extremely useful PHP classes that will definitely make your developer life

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I wish I had known these 10 tips the day I started working with PHP. Instead of learning them through painstaking process, I could have been on my way to becoming a PHP programmer even sooner! This article is presented in two parts and is intended for folks who are new to PHP.

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PHP is a scripting language designed to fill the gap between SSI (Server Side Includes) and Perl, intended largely for the web environment. PHP has gained quite a following in recent times, and it is one of the forerunners in the Open Source software movement. Its popularity derives from its C-like syntax, and its simplicity. PHP is currently divided into two major versions: PHP 4 and PHP 5, although PHP 4 is deprecated and is no longer developed or supplied with critical bug fixes. PHP 6 is currently under development.

If you've ever been to a website that needs you to login, you've probably encountered a server-side scripting language. Due to its market saturation, this means you've probably come across PHP. PHP was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf to display his resume online and to collect data from his visitors.

Basically, PHP allows a static webpage to become dynamic. "PHP" is an acronym that stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". The word "Preprocessor" means that PHP makes changes before the HTML page is created. This enables developers to create powerful applications which can publish a blog, remotely control hardware, or run a powerful website such as Wikipedia or Wikibooks. Of course, to accomplish something such as this, you need a database application such as MySQL.

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Table of Contents

What has changed in PHP 5.3.x
Backward Incompatible Changes
New features
Changes made to Windows support
Changes in SAPI modules
Deprecated features in PHP 5.3.x
Undeprecated features in PHP 5.3.x
New Parameters
New Functions
New stream wrappers
New stream filters
New Class Constants
New Methods
New Extensions
Removed Extensions
Other changes to extensions
New Classes
New Global Constants
Changes to INI file handling
Other changes

See also the migration guides for PHP versions 5.0.x, 5.1.x and 5.2.x.
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How to secure the data in your PHP applications

Summary: In this increasingly virtual online world, you have to be careful to protect your data. Learn the basics of encoding and encrypting important bits of information, such as passwords, credit card numbers, and even entire messages. Get an overview of what it means to encrypt and decrypt information, as well as some practical examples involving passwords and other data, using PHP's built-in functionality.
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Southern writes:  

I started working on PHP a long time ago. Unfortunately not many PHP tutorial were available that would explain the basics of PHP at that time. It is my vision to help the entire developer community to learn the concepts of PHP.

This page will consist of various articles and tutorials on PHP, e.g.: PHP5 Tutorial, PHP Examples, PHP Class, etc. Read on to find out.

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