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8Nov/090

Handling messages in web applications – Part 2

Welcome to part two of Handling messages in web applications. Part one went through how the message handler system is built. This part will show how to actually implement and use the component in a Zend Framework application.

8Nov/090

Handling messages in web applications – Part 1

Messages are a very important part of an application. Messages inform users about what is happening in the system and what the result of their actions is, so therefore it is critical to have a good and consistent way to display messages in an application.
In this post I will show how a message handling system [...]

1Oct/090

Implementing PHPIDS in Zend Framework

Security is a very important part of an application, especially if the system handles sensitive data or requires high availability. In this post I’m going to show how to integrate PHPIDS, which is a fantastic Intrusion Detection System for PHP applications, in Zend Framework.
Setting up PHPIDS in Zend Framework
First of all, we need to set [...]

19Sep/090

Using web scraping to extract information from websites

In today’s internet, when you want to extract information from a website you can usually get it by using some well defined API or by consuming an RSS feed. But when no such thing is available, you need to make use of another tool. Such tool could be Web scraping…