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Redirect a page in PHP

I’m back from a nice fourth of July weekend and am refreshed and ready to hit the road running! The sicial addressbook is very nearly finished, which is extremely exciting. It seems as if new features are added all the time! Luckilly it was designed with a large scope in mind, so scalability shouldnt be [...]

New Free Online App to download: PHP Address Book

I have released my PHP based Addressbook that I have been working on!
To interact with it live, check it out here:
http://www.blazekwebdesign.com/apps/detail.php?id=1
Login:
Username:bwd
Password: bwd
Use this accountor create your own!
Features:

Import/Export CSV contact list
Add entry to groups
View all entries in a group
Email a group
Email an entry
Delete an entry
Edit an entry
Membership access to allow muliple users

If you want to download this application, [...]

Retrieve variables from a function in PHP

Have you ever declared a function and wished you could get access to the variables within that function? As you may know, this is unable to happen until you make one simple declaration in that function.
function somefunction() {
     //DECLARE THIS AND MAKE YOUR VARIABLE RECOGNIZED OUTSIDE THE FUNCTION
     global $var1, $var2, $var3;
     $var1 = “This [...]

How to encrypt data in PHP

This is a fairly short and simple post! Have you aver wanted to store and encrypt data while developing in php?
If you want to store the value of the data in $password simply do this!
$enc_password = md5($password);
//To check the value agains the encrypted data you stored, do this
if($enc_password==md5($password) {
//YOUR CODE HERE
}
You can store the md5 [...]

Connecting to a database in PHP, SQL Style

Alright, alright….I am a little behind my usual posting, but hey, I’ve been busy, It was Memorial weekend!
Honestly I was hard at work developing an Online Addressbook utilizing PHP and mySQL. Currently I have the core complete, and am working on the odds and ends (extra addresses, groups, export csv, online mailing, membership users to [...]

Developing Web Applications

Web Development is not a finely defined task like it was a few years ago. In the past, what a web developer was someone who was knowledgable in HTML and could make web pages.
Times have changed with the advent of CSS, but it does not stop there. A real developer utilizes PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, Javascript, [...]