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by Wez Pyke - July 21, 2009 in PHP, Text Tutorials

Every website needs a way of contacting the people behind it and putting an email on a page is not such a good idea; because bots can easily pick up this email address and send spam to it. This is where a contact form comes in very useful because people can send you messages but do not get your email address. (more...)

PHP Class for Google Maps API Comments (12)

by Wez Pyke - July 20, 2009 in PHP, Text Tutorials

google maps logo small blue PHP Class for Google Maps API A few days ago I was developing a website for a client. They required that there be a map showing where addresses are that were retrieved from a database. I have never properly looked at the Google Maps API before because I have never needed to use it; so for the first time I looked at it and gave it a try. Then after playing around with it for a bit i realised that reverse geocoding was needed to convert the address into latitude and longitude figures.

Because I was programming this website in PHP I thought I would have a look around for a PHP class to see if there was a quicker way of doing this. Luckily enough I found a PHP class called PHP GoogleMapAPI. It took me a few minutes to read through the documentation for this class but it was so straight forward and simple. All in all it takes only 6 lines of code using this class to create a google map and locate it to an address; because it does all the other work for you that you don't need to know about if you're not going to be programming Google Maps every day of your life.

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10 CakePHP Tutorials You Should Read Comments (1)

by Wez Pyke - July 15, 2009 in General, PHP

There are a number of frameworks available for PHP such as CodeIgnitor, Zend, Symfony, Kohana and many more. In this article you will find tutorials that I have found on the web that will help PHP programmers that are new to the MVC pattern or CakePHP.

CakePHP is an amazing framework if you know how to use it, but the documentation for CakePHP is quite badly written and can cause confusion for new users. Here are a few links to try and make life easier for new and experienced CakePHP users.