When I moved to my current hosting provider, I lost the ability to SSH into my account. Most of the stuff I did in SSH can be done through the account’s control panel, including uploading and unzipping files. But one…

Using NuSOAP to generate WSDL and properly serialize and unserialize structured parameters.

It’s something you only have to write once in a while, but storing binary files in your database can be a useful thing. I found this excellent tutorial on Uploading, Saving and Downloading Binary Data in a MySQL Database. It’s…

Sending and receiving complex data types when writing Web Service applications using the NuSOAP library.

Application performance can be often dramatically increased by caching the results of expensive operations instead of performing the same operations over and over again.

One of my favority aspects of PHP is the phpinfo function. It gives you all sorts of information about your server environment, curent request, etc. Whenever I move to a new server or help someone troubleshoot PHP, the first thing…

I stumbled across PHP-TextDB while helping a friend find a viable database she could use on her non-mySQL account. PHP Text DB API is a bare-bones flat-file database that stores its tables in plain text files. Although I wouldn’t use…