Regular expression is the basic functionality of pattern comparison. PHP offers two sets of functions for regular expressions – POSIX style and Perl style. Both types have slightly different syntax and this post should give basic overview of the POSIX one.
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Many of my customers hold data in Excel files. Then, when they decide to build a web based, database driven project controlled by PHP, ask me to move their Excel data into the MySQL. Whether it’s possible and how to do it, will be the content of this post.
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I’m sure you all often use date and time data to format filenames in batch files responsible for backups or logfiles routines. Those of you who administer Windows servers maybe encountered a syntax troubles using date and time system values to format required string as a filename. This post offers short guidance how to get necessary date or time substrings from Windows machines.
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XMLHttpRequest is one of the goals of AJAX technology. But what XMLHttpRequest actually is, where it comes from or how we can use it will be the content of this short post.
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Jail in FreeBSD is utility which imprisons a process and all future descendants. This was the theory. But what is the reality of jails, why we should use them and how successfully set them up will be the core of this article.
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Have you ever forgotten the password to your BIOS? Have you ever had your laptop stolen but you were calm with consciousness that you have the BIOS secured by password so your data cannot be compromised? Are you sure that there is no way to bypass BIOS password settings? This post will bring you bit other look at BIOS security and password recovery possibilities.
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PHP Fatal Error: Call to undefined function utf8_encode() error message balked me to run new installation of web software. Why and how to get rid of this error is described in this post.
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What are FTP status codes assemblied of, what are their meaning and other details of FTP service replies describes this post.
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BackTrack (previously SecurityAuditor) is without discussion one of the coolest and helpfull IT Security Auditing Toolset ever. This live linux distribution can be regularly installed on a harddrive but there are small detailes which are on other hand very important to successfully install version 2.0 of this system.
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The server does not support, or refuses to support, the HTTP protocol version that was used in the request message.
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