http://www.askflib.com/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:15:04 +0000en-usTMI-CMS RSS Plugin 0.4 (http://www.technomonk.com)support@askflib.com (AskFlib) AskFlib.com - New articles in PHP http://www.askflib.com/article/passing-variable-numbers-of-arguments-to-functions Thu, 21 May 2009 05:21:29 +0000 <p>Recently a visitor in my IRC channel came in with an odd problem. He needed to send a variable amount of arguments to a function. The function wasn't under his control, so he was unable to pass an array to it and parse it within the function itself.</p> <p>PHP as far as I can tell has no easy way to do this. This short article explains one method to accomplish the task.</p>http://www.askflib.com/guid/article/15 http://www.askflib.com/article/dynamic-buttons-with-gd-and-php Wed, 20 May 2009 12:44:12 +0000 <p>On many sites its very difficult to predict exactly which graphics you might need. One answer is dynamic buttons.</p> http://www.askflib.com/guid/article/13 http://www.askflib.com/article/creating-business-cards-with-fpdf-and-php Tue, 19 May 2009 13:31:37 +0000 <p>When I need to create business cards or similar documents, I frequently head for the text editor and knock out a small app. This is one such application.</p>http://www.askflib.com/guid/article/11 http://www.askflib.com/article/php_value-php_flag-php_admin_value-php_admin_flag Mon, 18 May 2009 19:47:11 +0000 <p>If you change almost any of the PHP setting in php.ini then you affect all vhosts on the server. This can be a bad thing. Scripts may break and functionality may change.</p> <p>Luckily, there is a more fine grained solution if you are running PHP as a module.</p>http://www.askflib.com/guid/article/9 http://www.askflib.com/article/elevating-priviledges-from-webscripts Mon, 04 May 2009 16:01:19 +0000 <p>Often you will find yourself on a server where permissions are restrictive. </p> <p>In this article, I try to explain a few of the options</p>http://www.askflib.com/guid/article/4 http://www.askflib.com/article/using-cookies-across-subdomains Mon, 04 May 2009 15:00:06 +0000 <p>Most sites, if they use cookies, use a single domain the whole time. Not all do. </p> <p>For these domains an understanding of how sessions and cookies work and what needs to be changed is useful.</p>http://www.askflib.com/guid/article/3 http://www.askflib.com/article/using-updated-currency-rates Mon, 04 May 2009 13:13:50 +0000 <p>Often you have a need for up to date information, but rarely can find it for free. Exchange rates are a common need and a closely guarded secret by some developers.</p> <p>In this article, I show you how to use exchange rates for conversion and where to get them from.</p>http://www.askflib.com/guid/article/2 http://www.askflib.com/article/making-friendly-urls Mon, 04 May 2009 11:46:35 +0000 <p>How do you make your urls more readable both to humans and web crawlers? In this article, we look at some of the options.</p> http://www.askflib.com/guid/article/1