Archive for July, 2009

Top SEO Books for the SEO Newbie

You asked for some reference books on SEO for beginners. You got it—in this post, Mihaela lists a sampling of books designed for people who don’t know about SEO, but want to.

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  2. Will Bing Change SEO? Many worry that SEO techniques for Bing differ from SEO…
  3. Goodbye SEO Software, Hello SEO Web Applications The majority of tools available for managing SEO campaigns come…

Submitting forms using PHP cURL [1]

A tutorial on how to submit (POST) forms using PHP cURL. This technique proves to very useful when implementing payment gateways for e-commerce websites.

PHP TestFest 2009 Winners

A group of winners of PHP
elePHPhants
or TestFest mugs
have been picked at random from the people that contributed the
887 tests
during the 2009 PHP TestFest.

Winners of elePHPhants

PHP North West Conference

The PHP North West
Conference has announced its return for a second year, to be held
on Saturday 10th October 2009 in Manchester, UK. This is a one-day
conference aimed at developers from the local region and further

SEO Fishing with an Empty Hook

In this article Mihaela reveals how titles with a high emotional marketing value are related to link baiting and how the emotional impact can influence your audience.

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  1. SEO: What’s Hot and What’s Not Mihaela discusses some SEO 2.0 techniques and the metrics that…
  2. Top SEO Books for the SEO Newbie You asked for some reference books on SEO for beginners….
  3. On-page SEO – The Google Way Mihaela recommends Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide for all…

Subversion Migration Complete

The migration from CVS to Subversion is complete. The web interface is at
svn.php.net. You can read about it at
php.net/svn.php,
wiki.php.net/vcs/svnfaq. The
URL to feed to your svn client is http://svn.php…

How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 3: Keywords and Autoloading

In the final part of his series explaining PHP namespaces, Craig covers more advanced topics such as the keywords and class autoloading.

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  1. How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 1: The Basics
  2. How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 2: Importing, Aliases, and Name Resolution
  3. Are PHP Namespaces Really So Bad?

How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 2: Importing, Aliases, and Name Resolution

In the second part of Craig’s PHP namespaces series, he looks at importing, aliasing, and identifier resolution.

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  1. How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 1: The Basics
  2. How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 3: Keywords and Autoloading
  3. Are PHP Namespaces Really So Bad?

Introducing the MySQL Librarian

The MySQL Librarian is a collection of community-generated and cross
referenced content related to MySQL. It’s a place where the community,
collaboratively, builds and maintains MySQL content.

How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 1: The Basics

In the first part of a series of articles, Craig explains why namespaces were required in PHP and how they can be used in your code.

Related Posts

  1. How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 2: Importing, Aliases, and Name Resolution
  2. How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 3: Keywords and Autoloading
  3. Are PHP Namespaces Really So Bad?