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Over the last few years following the development of Ajax File Browser (now known as Limpid Browser), various users have had troubles with getting the application to report the correct size of large files (greater than 2gib) on 32bit systems. …

Depending on how you host your website (or application) there are different ways to change the PHP settings. In particular, the most asked about problem, changing the maximum upload size. There are 3 settings PHP uses that limit your uploading …

Lately I’ve been reading various random articles about some browsers ability to deflate zipped webpages, so that there is less bandwidth and faster loading times for websites. Although this ability has been around for a while, it’s only been lately …

You may or may not know about the PHP $_SERVER variable, HTTP_REFERER. It is meant to hold the URL of the previously visited page that the user has been to. Also, you may already use this variable in buttons or …

Recently it was announced that Zend and Microsoft are collaborating to ensure PHP will run on Windows IIS servers with equal (or close enough) performance of Linux/Apache servers. While all reports claim that “it’s giving users another choice not to …

This is the second part of a tutorial covering the Front-end browser part of Ajax’ing and the Back-end part of sending data with PHP. The first part can be found here. So we’ve covered how to request an interpret XML …

Wether I’m making complex web applications or a five page no brainer site, if I’m using PHP to do something the chances are something’s not going to work out exactly to plan. I quite often find myself spitting out this …

How often have you ever found out that magic quotes was turned on, but you forgot all about it? Or your result from a database row is fine in its’ result set, except for the slashes? Not too often for …

Ever tried to make a Paypal button using their Button Creator, or even by getting the information from their Help pages? It’s not easy or dynamic. I’ve made many sites that use Paypal for their payment of both single items …

Inspired by Backpackit.com’s image management, Image Snapshot can take a portion of an image (crop) to specific dimensions, from different areas of the original image. This class has been created for the purpose of manipulating an uploaded image, and creating …