PHP Life

August 10, 2006

Once upon a time I decided to start a business…

Filed under: Business — Eugene @ 3:27 pm

And found out my head was full of messed up information that I grabbed during my endless browsing through the Internet.

Having realized that I clearly understood that I needed to sort out a mess and to develop a plan of my further actions.

Why? (more…)

August 8, 2006

The List of Free Maillist (Subscription) Services

Filed under: E-mail marketing — Eugene @ 3:51 pm

If you need to put subscription form to your site, feel free to get this list and use any of free services presented here.

I spent 2 hours finding this list and hope this will help you as well as me. (more…)

July 25, 2006

Stop Visitors from Leaving Your Site

Filed under: Site Components, Software Announces — Eugene @ 4:47 pm

Picture of the Day: Stop Visitor from Leaving Your Site

Tortuga Software today released new software helping site owners to keep their visitors.

Keeping site visitors is easier now.

According to statistics 60-80% of visitors leave the site in 0.5 mins right after they entering it. The reasons are different but the main one is a difficulty with finding required information on the site. (more…)

July 24, 2006

List of PHP template engines

Filed under: PHP — Eugene @ 5:59 pm

Spent time to find a list of PHP template engines: (more…)

May 30, 2006

What are the reasons to merge PEAR::DB with Metabase classes?

Filed under: PHP — Eugene @ 5:29 pm

PEAR::DB - the very good database abstraction layer now merged with Metabase. The new library received new name PEAR::MDB2. I’ve tried to find out the benefits of this join. (more…)

May 25, 2006

How Graphical Security Code (CAPTCHA) works

Filed under: PHP, Programming — Eugene @ 5:12 pm

Some forums, guest books and services expect you to enter chars/digits security code drawn on image nearby (known as CAPTCHA code - Completely Automated Public Turning test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). The aim is to ensure the message is typed by human being but not a spam robot. How this implemented physically? (more…)

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