One of PHP's greatest strengths can also be a great weakness in the wrong hands. I'm talking about its forgiving nature. One of the reasons why PHP has become so wildly popular is because it lets very inexperienced web developers build powerful applications without much planning, consistency, or documentation.

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As my grandfather always says, "If you want something done right, do it yourself." However, these days you often have to rely on third-party tools to help you get your job done. To serve even a simple, static HTML Web page you need to rely on your Web server, which in turn relies on your operating system, and so on. While you can't create all these programs yourself, most of the ones that you rely on?your Web server, for example?provide an API to help you extend and add functionality to these programs, so if they don't meet your needs you can always modify them.

PHP?or more properly the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor?lets you easily create dynamic Web sites by embedding code into the Web page (HTML) itself. This open-source software is very popular on the Web where open-source products like Apache and Perl predominate. While PHP offers considerable power as a scripting language, its true power lies in the fact that if it doesn't offer what you need, you can easily extend it with either C or C++. To extend PHP 4, you need to understand the PHP API (more specifically the Zend API, since PHP 4 is powered by the Zend Engine).

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Trust is everything in this day and age. You have to trust a lot of people, from the guy who gives you directions to your local plumber. After all, you're not always the authority. However, when developing applications for the web, you must assume the role of authority. Otherwise, the user will assume the role, which is a big gamble: total data integrity, data corruption, or diversion of data -- if the user is the authority, you don't know what the results will be.

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The built-in COM functionality of PHP4 is quite attractive for some of us programming in the win32 environment. So far, there is not much documentation on the subject. This short article will explain how to use COM in real PHP4 programming with three examples using MS office 2000 Word and Excel programs and the Adobe Distiller program. The COM technology has been developed by Microsoft for several years, under different names. As far as this article is concerned, the words OLE, OLE Automation, ActiveX and COM are all the same: They designate an encapsulated piece of code (the Object) that performs some functions for a windows application. PHP4 COM connects to the object (Instantiate the object) and uses its methods and properties.

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Debugging PHP: Did You Remember to "Dot All Your I's and Cross All Your T's"?

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We're adding a new weekly feature to our weekly tech radio show called the php diary and help forum recap which will review the week of diary lessons here and provide a bit more insight than what was provided as well as the occasional glimpse of what's coming in the future to our sites. Of special note

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This tutorial is designed for an advanced PHP programmer. It assumes you know how to handle cookies. (See Feedback with a Cookie to learn about using cookies.) You should also know how to pass data from one page to another using the POST and GET methods

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In part 4 of this tutorial we take a look at adding a new MessageAction method to our current Controller. This will expect one piece of information: a new chat message.

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Fluent Interfaces is not a new programming construct, in fact many of you may be doing it without knowing it?s name. In other languages it is commonly known as ?chaining?. However, PHP developers have not been able to use them until PHP 5. Now with PHP 5 and the ability to directly dereference an object, PHP developers can build objects using fluent interfaces.

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