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Try adding a Content-type header with a charset to the email. E.g. like this: <?php $to = "[email protected]"; $subject = "Invitation"; $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ; $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ; $headers = "From: $email\r\nContent-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8"; $sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ; if($sent) {print "your email was sent"; } else {print "En error has occurred, try again , "; } ?>

In terms of security it can help foil session fixation attacks. If you obtain someone's session ID you can effectively log in as them. If the session ID changes frequently, the chance of a compromised session ID still being active decreases. Doing it right after login would be pointless. You should do it every X requests. I suppose that depends on what you want to use the function for. Did you read what it does?

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Yeah, well, we're not going to help you with bypassing security on other people's websites.

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Really? It works fine for me. <?php function getAlexaRank ($url) { $xml = simplexml_load_file("http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&dat=s&url=$url"); return (int) $xml->SD->POPULARITY['TEXT']; } echo getAlexaRank('google.com'); // 1 echo getAlexaRank('phpfreaks.com'); // 11283

Oh sorry. I was viewing it in Chrome and I forgot that it doesn't work very well with XML files; it showed up blank to me. Anyways, the problem is that it's not returning the string in the attribute, but it's returning a SimpleXMLElement object. Simply casting it explicitly to an int will fix it: function getAlexaRank ($url) { $xml = simplexml_load_file("http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&dat=s&url=$url"); return (int) $xml->SD->POPULARITY['TEXT']; }

You can check the number of words using str_word_count.

Where did you get that API URL?

We would encourage everybody to introduce themselves here so we might get to know you and "old" members are very welcome to introduce themselves as well.

I've got a VPS. A dedicated server would be overkill for my needs.

That's quite a surprise to me. As I said, it is something I would expect from any web host. Then again, I've never purchased shared hosting.

I would expect all webhosts to have that.

That doesn't necessarily mean you cannot write a TDD primer.

What do you mean with "doing .htaccess on a folder"? .htaccess files just contain Apache configuration directives. Not only does it have nothing to do with PHP whatsoever, but it can all be looked up in the Apache documentation.

Here is yet another alternative: http://devzone.zend.com/article/4571-Fetching-multiple-random-rows-from-a-database

A sub query returns a result, like all queries do, and you can use that result as a variable in your query. That's it, essentially.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080209154336/http://www.phpit.net/article/simple-mvc-php5/

A login script is essentially so simple that it's not even worth dedicating a tutorial for that. Stuff involved is essentially form processing, database access and sessions/cookies. We have a tutorial for sessions and cookies and we have one for database access and another one focusing on joins and unions. Then you have form processing, but that's fairly straightforward. You simply read from the $_GET or $_POST superglobal. You might also be interested in this blog post that talks about breaking a script/application down into logical elements the same way I just did.

You mean like this? http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/debugging-a-beginners-guide

Please do not post links to download copyrighted material that you do not have the right to redistribute yourself.

I'll sticky this for further reference and in case other people might know books that people might find useful.

I can't remember when I've last used FTP. I always use SSH, SCP and SVN.

I've read some of SitePoint's Simply JavaScript. At the time I read it I found it pretty good.

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