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Using Search Engine Friendly URLs for your Dynamic Pages
Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 12:05pm, in SEO, written by Stefan Ashwell
"Search Engine Friendly URLs" or "User Friendly URLs" are a much better way of constructing your URLs for dynamic pages. In this article I will discuss some basic ways of doing this, with a little help from mod_rewrite.
Listing files stored within a directory using PHP
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at 6:23pm, in File Management, written by Tom Foyster
Being able to create lists out of files within a directory quickly and easily is a really good skill to have, especially when creating Content Management and web based File Management Systems.
Generating Search Engine Friendly Titles for your URL
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at 6:42am, in String Manipulation, written by Stefan Ashwell
For most dynamic websites you will want to create "Search Engine Friendly" or "User Friendly" URLs, rather than using ugly and meaningless strings or IDs to reference your content. The way you interpret the URLs and use them to get your content is for another article and I won't go into that right now, what I want to talk about is how to turn your page titles into versions that can be used in your URL.
Encrypting passwords using PHP
Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 3:43pm, in User Handling, written by Stefan Ashwell
When creating a membership based site security is paramount - especially if you're dealing with personal information. When it comes to passwords you'll want to encrypt them wherever they are stored so they can't be stolen. Here are a few things you can do to make your passwords as safe as possible.
In Depth Contact Form Part 3 - Better Error Checking
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at 11:07pm, in Form Handling, written by Stefan Ashwell
Part 3 of the contact form tutorial looks back at the error checking in place previously, and asks the question "How can we make it better?".
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