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“XML is future of web” phrase that slowly but comes to be true. So every PHP developer should know how to create XML documets. One more article from Mind Tree about dynamic XML document creation with PHP DOM class show how to create XML documents in the easiest way.

When working with XML-based applications, developers often find themselves facing the requirement to generate XML-encoded data structures on the fly. Examples of this include an XML order template based on user input in a Web form, or an XML representation of a server request or client response based on run-time parameters.

You would learn basics of XML and how to format XML documents. Useful code snippets for your future programming.

Do you ever wonder from where your visitors comes from? Mind Tree posted new article how to track your visitors country.

Sometimes you just need to know what country your site visitors are coming from—for example, if you’re trying to implement geo-targeted advertising. This article will show you how.

Article describing usage of geoip class with nice examples of code.

Very good article of using cookies with domains including www and without it. Why it is important  to use or not to use cookies, and some grate tips you would find in this post.

One of Yahoo’s performance rules says: Use cookie-free domains for static components. This is good because the server has no use for cookie information when serving a JPEG or another static component, so all this cookie information creates network traffic for no reason.

Like usually good article with some examples and code snippets.

Alex Netkachov on his forum has wrote some thoughts about couple of popular framework including Zend Framework, Prado and ASP.net.

- Which framework is the best of the three to you?
I know it depends on their use but I was just wondering

If you still does not decided witch one you should use maybe this Alex post would help you.

Nice article for PHP beginners to design and code user registration form. In this tutorial author shows how you can fast create user registration for your web application.

For any real application though, that won’t work and we require a “New User Registration’ system. That’s what we are going tot create in this post.

In this tutorial you would find code examples, good commented source. Looks like this tutorial is one of tutorial series. Great job from author.

Fresh new entry of popular Zend Framework tutorial launched today. In this part author shows how to make blog entries editing.

here’s nothing quite like having a functioning application emerge out of the controlled chaos we know as The Development Process. In Part 8 of the ongoing saga describing how to build a real world blog application using the Zend Framework we finally reach the point at which we concentrate on blog entries. At the end of this Part, we will be able to create and edit entries in preparation for Part 9 when we will explore displaying them to the world!

In this part you would learn how to make blog entry editing controller, work with Zend_Form, how to filter entries with HTMLPurifier. Like usually  many code examples and new SVN repository.

Brian Moon posted new article how to deal with session cookies. Sometimes there is problems with session cookie refresh. Brian has great solution for this situation.

I have always had an issue with PHP Sessions. Albeit, a lot of my issues are now invalid. When they were first implemented, they had lots of issues. Then the $_SESSION variable came to exist and it was better. Then memcached came to exist and you could store sessions there. That was better. But, still, after all this time, there is one issue that still bugs me.

Looks like all my problems with session cookie diapered with Brian provided code snippet.

Just found this great article for PHP beginners. In server variables you could find very useful information about server variables like script path, execution time and much more.

You guys must have know about server variables in PHP. Server Variables are those variables which are inside the super global array named $_SERVER available in PHP. There are many server variables in PHP and some of them are very useful for fore developing PHP projects. I’m going to post here some of the very useful server variables available in PHP development.

Author describes 8 most useful variables.

If you looking for some good tutorial to start learning AJAX with jQuery Developer Tutorial lunched great tutorial with good documented source code examples.

AJAX is probably the biggest thing you can add to your site; with AJAX, you can dramatically increase functionality, and give your end users more usable web applications. But AJAX is tricky to get started with - it usually requires very complex JavaScript knowledge. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to get started with AJAX using the jQuery JavaScript framework.

In this article author describes how to make user authorization with AJAX and jQuery.

Recently was realized new version of popular IDE NetBeans. This new version comes with PHP support - code highlighting, debugging and much more.

The NetBeans IDE is a modular, standards-based, integrated development environment (IDE) written in the Java programming language. The NetBeans project consists of an open source IDE and an application platform, which can be used as a generic framework to build any kind of application.