IP Address conversion in PHP
The purpose of this technote is to provide a small recipe for manipulating and/or converting IP addresses to decimals and back. I wrote a similar technote on how to do this in the Perl language. I...
View ArticleApplying the singleton pattern to database connections in PHP
The singleton object oriented pattern is a very useful design pattern that can be used to pass objects around in a consistent manner throughout a web-based application. The purpose of this article is...
View ArticleUsing PHP with Oracle InstantClient on Win32
PHP 5 now supports a new OCI8 client installation called, oci8-instant-client. This option was added to the PHP 5 source as of version 5.0.4. Oracle Corp. came out with a new means of installing Oracle...
View ArticleUsing PHP with Oracle InstantClient on Solaris
The purpose of this article is to discuss some of the uses and applications for using the new Oracle Instantclient software to connect with multiple disparate Oracle databases that run at different...
View ArticlePHP and Javascript checkbox conflict
There is a potential conflict between the server-side and client-side processing of checkbox form elements in PHP (server-side) and JavaScript (client-side). The problem is caused by the name of the...
View ArticleImplementing a logger in PHP
The purpose of this article is to document the creation of a logger using the incubation project Log4PHP from the Apache Foundation. This logger is a port of the Log4J, and existed long before it...
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