Posts Categorized: PHP Development

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…

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…

Traits in PHP – Multiple and Nested Traits

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Multiple and Nested Traits

Traits is a good new addition to PHP language. In our series about the new features of PHP 5.4, we reviewed the concept of Traits in PHP. The introductory article talks about what the traits are and what is the general syntax of Traits in PHP. The second article attempts to explain why we need traits.
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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…

Configuring Session in Yii Framework –CCacheHttpSession

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configuring session in Yii framework

Yii framework has three different possibilities for configuring the session. In the Yii Session series, we are already familiar with the session configuration by using the regular server side session and the database based session handling. This is the last article of the series and it talks about the session handling by using cache as Continue reading…