Tag: PHP5

  • Setting up a PHP Development Environment – Part 2

    Introduction Note that this was published back in 2014 and is obsolete. I plan on doing a more modern development environment tutorial at a later date. Images are missing from this entry. In the last part, I showed you how to set up your basic development environment using Eclipse and The Uniform Server, but we…

  • Validating a domain string in PHP

    It is not uncommon to need to validate a string passed to a PHP script which purports to be a domain name, or URL. In a past project, I had to validate a domain but without the scheme. This turned out to be much harder that I thought, as the PHP validate filter could only…

  • Setting up a PHP Development Environment – Part 1

    Introduction  Note that this was published back in 2013 and is obsolete. I plan on doing a more modern development environment tutorial at a later date. Images are missing from this entry. I’m going to show you how to set up a fully featured development environment for PHP5 on Windows (I’m using 7) It will…