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If you are a web developer and having problems on Installing PHP Curl on Apache with PHP installed on Windows Operating System, below is my version of tonyspecer’s “cURL with PHP and Apache on Windows“.  The steps are simple and direct to the point. I have windows apache version 2.2.14 and PHP Version 5.2.10 installed on my Laptop using the installers provided on the respective sites. 1.  Install APACHE and PHP (I installed my APACHE on C:\apache and PHP on [...]

Sending E-Mail with PHP can be simple, or it can be very complex depending on what you want to do.  PHPmailer is a free PHP software used for sending emails or should I say used for “spamming”.  Though the software has been provided for free, many developers has gone beyond its real purpose.  With a block of IP Address , a web server with PHP installed in it is a perfect set-up for spamming. I have been using this free [...]

Google has provided web developers foreign language translation api. Web content translation is not a problem anymore, with google’s Google Translate, research from different countries is now made possible. This is a big help especially for researchers on the net, we can now easily understand web contents and even text from outside sources which also serves as a document translation services. Google allows us to copy and paste phrases, sentences and paragraphs from outside sources to their google translate and [...]

Code Igniter is one of the best PHP framework available today.  It is free to download and user guide can be found together with the package. In Code Igniter the class that has the database queries or the methods that deals with getting the data on the database is placed inside the MODEL folder.  Just remember the “D” which tells us that Database methods are placed in this folder as what Jeffrey Way said in his tutorials. Here are different [...]

PHP is one of the mostly used language on the net. Why is it preferred by most web developers? Well, to give a brief reason why I love PHP most and why it is widely used I am sure of and few of the reasons why I love PHP: It is free, easy to use, secure and extremely fast. PHP before and today have a very big difference since PHP today is on Object Oriented approach though some other ways [...]

One problem in creating a PHP Session Authentication is that when you are logged in and suddenly logs out and click the back button you will be returned to the page where you kast visited.   Isn’t this a problem especially when you have important data in that page.  So if you have problem with this let me share a code that will surely eleminate the problem.  In this code there is no need for javascripts to disable the back button(what [...]

Thank You to Jovencito Talasan One method of Neural Network Programming is Q Learning that will be applied for ai robots. Q learning is is an off-policy method that can be run on top of any strategy wandering in the Markov Decision Process (MDP). It uses the information observed to approximate the optimal function, from which one can construct the optimal policy or to summarize the function of Q learning, only the state-action function needs to be stored and updated. [...]