Don't Quote Me on That!

Single quote, double quote, or no quote? This seemingly simple question is often asked by those new to PHP. Suprisingly, however, some of those who claimed to be PHP programmer also can't tell the difference. It's very simple, really.

DevBay (2005). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>PHP

ENTER and Event-Driven Programming

The event driven programming model in ASP.NET made possible by HTML and WEB controls 'runat server' is a great idea but not without problems. It is a usability disaster that the use of ENTER in forms no longer works as expected.

Tverskov, Jesper. Smack the Mouse (2003). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>ASP

Extensible Master-Page Framework for ASP.NET 1.1 Using Pattern Oriented Design

Development of a framework for master-pages using ASP.NET and C#.

Mukhtar, Shams. Code Project, The (2004). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>ASP

Generating Images on the Fly

Paul looks at how PHP, GIMP, or Generator can be used to churn out up-to-the-second charts and graphs, change your site's look and feel on demand, display newly created passwords as bot-defying GIFs, and more.

Adams, Paul. Webmonkey (2001). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>PHP

The Geronimo Renegade: Web 2.0 Report Card

Web 2.0 is still one of the computer industry's hottest buzzwords, despite widespread disagreement as to what the term actually means. This month, The Geronimo renegade cuts through the hype and looks at the Apache Geronimo project as both an enabler of Web 2.0 applications and as a Web 2.0 application itself.

Chase, Nicholas. IBM (2007). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Java

Getting a Handle on Web Services in Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004

So you have heard that Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 has built-in support for web services. Great! But is this unconditionally true? Are all web services now supported in Flash?

Fleischer, Vera. Adobe (2004). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Flash

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails

The “how” of Ruby on Rails: Hivelogic’s Dan Benjamin prepares non-Rails developers, designers, and other creative professionals for their first foray into Rails. Learn what Ruby on Rails is (and isn’t), and where it fits into the spectrum of web development and design. See through the myths surrounding this powerful young platform, and learn how to approach working with it.

Benjamin, Dan. List Apart, A (2008). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Ruby on Rails

How to Avoid Complicated PHP Forms and Data Processing

When you are creating a web application forms and data should be held strictly seperate. In the PHP community this rule is ignored and PHP itself is being abused. Template and framework system developers have made it more commonplace. CMS developers seem to have forgotten that under no circumstances should the code used to display forms be allowed to process the data involved. Here's why not and the solution.

Hiveminds (2006). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>PHP

htaccess Tutorial

In this tutorial you will find out about the .htaccess file and the power it has to improve your website. Although .htaccess is only a file, it can change settings on the servers and allow you to do many different things.

Gowans, David. Free Webmaster Help (2001). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes

IBM Servlet-Based Content Creation Framework

This framework provides an easily-used and easily-understood way of developing Web-based applications. The framework not only supports but also enforces the complete separation of content and presentation. Its simple and elegant design does not hide the familiar underlying servlet infrastructure.

Pawlitzek, Rene. IBM (2005). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Java

Implementing Hamlets

The Hamlet framework was developed to extend Java servlets and enforce the separation of content from presentation. In this article, you'll find an additional way to provide dynamic content as René Pawlitzek advances the framework further and refines use of the template engine.

Pawlitzek, Rene. IBM (2006). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Java

Integrate XForms with the Google Web Toolkit, Part 2: Creating an Artist and Album Management Form

This four-part series demonstrates how to use the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and XForms together to create a dynamic Web application. Part 1 looked at the JavaScript underpinnings of each technology. Part 2 shows you how to use those JavaScript underpinnings to start mixing the two technologies together to build the rock star application.

Galpin, Michael. IBM (2007). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Ajax

Introducing Hamlets

Servlets are a key component of server-side Java development, but despite a number of attractive traits, servlets do not support or enforce the separation of content and presentation. To master that functionality, Rene Pawlitzek proposes Hamlets -- servlet extensions that provide this functionality within a lightweight framework implemented with less than 500 lines of Java source code.

Pawlitzek, Rene. IBM (2005). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Java

Introduction to LAMP Technology

This tutorial explores the Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP, or LAMP, Web development framework and shows how that framework can help you build applications to solve common business problems. The tutorial begins with an exploration of the LAMP architecture, then introduces fundamental PHP concepts. After a solid grounding of PHP, the tutorial explains MySQL support, with coverage focusing on database concepts and how to access MySQL from PHP. All of these techniques are discussed within the context of a real-world customer management example.

Bacon, Jono. IBM (2005). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Open Source

JSON on the Server Side

JSON is an easy format to use for sending (and receiving) data that maps to objects, or even arrays of objects. In this final article of the series, you'll learn how to handle data sent to a server in the JSON format and how to reply to scripts using the same format.

McLaughlin, Brett D. IBM (2007). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Ajax

Kick ASP Design

Web programming is not rocket science. Get comfortable with the basics, and learn some nifty Style Sheet switching tricks, in this general introduction to ASP programming for non-programmers.

Evans, Meryl K. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes

Learning PHP: A Gentle Introduction

According to Netcraft, PHP overtook Microsoft's ASP as the most popular web scripting language back in the spring of 2002. And PHP has continued its explosive growth ever since. Today, when the Apache web server powers nearly 70% of all sites on the Internet and its closest competitor, Microsoft's IIS, has a market share of just over 20%, PHP is far and away the most widely used server-side scripting language. Just what is it that makes PHP so popular?

Pletcher, Thomas. Community MX. Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>PHP

Macromedia Flash MX and PHP

Communicating with PHP (or any other server-side script) from Macromedia Flash has become much easier with the introduction of the LoadVars object in Macromedia Flash MX. Here's a sample in which I use a MySQL database (containing friends' e-mail and phone information and a picture and caption if we have one), a PHP script to access that information, and Macromedia Flash to present it. I'll go through each of the steps I went through to create it.

Triolo, Helen. Adobe (2004). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Flash

Make Ajax Development Easier with AjaxTags

Developers and users have much higher expectations for the usability and responsiveness of Web-based applications in the Web 2.0 era. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past two years, you've likely heard of Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (the Ajax technique). Ajax allows you to build slick, responsive, and highly dynamic browser-based user interfaces without requiring browser page reloads. This article takes a look at AjaxTags, a Java/JavaScript Library that lets you easily integrate Ajax functionality into your JSP pages.

Wintschel, Daniel. IBM (2007). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Ajax

Making PDFs with PHP, PDQ

PHP can do a lot for your Web operation. You can generate nice-looking printable receipts, invoices, and brochures. Disc-Cover has a test site that looks up info about a CD automatically and then generates a PDF label for the CD box that you can print, cut out, and use. And there are literally one billion other possible uses for dynamically generated PDFs.

Adams, Paul. Webmonkey (2002). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>PHP

MVC in Smaller Web Applications

MVC (Model, View, Controller) is an attempt to structure a web application into three components.

Willerich, Matthias. Content with Style (2005). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes

A New Approach to Designing Web Applications

What we need is a new way to build our applications. Instead of scattering the manual work and items requiring decision making across the development process, we need to do the 'thinky' things first then automate the rest. Why don't we just stop doing things the hard way?

Cole, Chris. Code Project, The (2006). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>ASP

NHibernate Best Practices with ASP.NET, Generics, and Unit Tests

This article describes best practices for leveraging the benefits of NHibernate, ASP.NET, Generics, and unit testing together.

McCafferty, Billy. Code Project, The (2006). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>ASP

On Connecting to SQL Databases

This article deals only with connecting to databases on a SQL2000 server. Various connection options are discussed and their implementation details are shown. Data retrieval and data manipulation will be discussed in a future article. Only very simple, but basic code to test the connection is used, and each case uses a different ASPX page. This article is self-contained and complete, a copy of the projects in zip format is provided for download.

Code Project, The (2006). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>SQL

Page Cloaking - To Cloak or Not to Cloak

Page cloaking can broadly be defined as a technique used to deliver different web pages under different circumstances. There are two primary reasons that people use page cloaking.

Roy, Sumantra. 1stSearchRanking (2003). Design>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Search