Special characters in Regular Expressions – Part 1

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Learning Regular Expressions

With this post, we continue to explore the Regular expressions. The first post of the Learning Regular Expression series introduced Regular Expressions. The first post covers the regular expression delimiters and the “i” pattern modifier. In the language of regular expression, there is a special meaning of certain characters.
In the first post, the expressions matching Continue reading…

jQuery Plugin – Generate customizable tooltips with qTip2

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qTip2 for creating tooltips

jQuery is the popular Open source JavaScript library that makes JavaScript development easy. The core functionality of the jQuery can be extended by using various plugins. Like jQuery, its plugins are also Open source and free to use. Various jQuery plugins can be used to add new features to the core jQuery library.
qTip2 is one Continue reading…

Regular Expressions – Starting from basics

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Learning Regular Expressions

After taking a quick look at few common examples of regular expressions, we are taking another dig at regular expressions.
The Regular expressions originated from the grep program of Unix systems. The grep program helps in working with strings and manipulating text. PHP has support for regular expressions. Before the release of PHP 5.3, PHP supported Continue reading…

Choosing a Blogging CMS

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Blog CMS

We are running a Choose CMS series to identify the features of various categories of PHP CMS. As is evident from the title of series, the target is to choose the right CMS that suits our requirements. The first post of the series talks the qualities of a good CMS and identifies different genres of Continue reading…

PHP 5.4 – built-in web-server, closures, callable and other new features

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PHP 5.4 – built-in web-server, closures, callable and other new features

I am taking too long to close the New in PHP 5.4 series. PHP 5.4.3 is already released on 8th May 2012!!! Looking back, we are already familiar with the improvements in session handling, array syntax dereferencing and introduction of traits in PHP. Traits is an alternative approach for multiple inheritance. In another post, we Continue reading…