Joomla! Community Magazine
The Joomla! Project proudly announces the August 2010 Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine. The magazine is a collection of articles and illustrations highlighting events and accomplishments of the free software community behind Joomla!, an award-winning open source content management system.
PHP & JSON
When a web application uses Web services, communication between departments may be using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).
Many examples exist on the internet, but today Lorna Mitchell shows how to create a menu with PHP and JSON. This approach has been presented at a conference on the use of web services.
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Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices
You're a mySQL developper, you should read this. Very interesting and usefull little tips to ehance your applications.
This post is written by Burak Guzel.
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TYPO3 Hooks Tutorial
Some days ago I needed to extends tt_news for adding some required features.
While googling, I found this cute tutorial, using the extension wfqbe as exemple.
Helpful knowledge: You should know the basics of extension building (creating a new extension with the kickstarter should suffice), if you haven’t worked with wfqbe so far you should get to know the extension first. wfqbe requires some basic SQL skills.
If you need to learn more about hooks, then go read it here
Indexing content with PHP
Indexing the web content may be in different ways. Among other using PHP and Swish-E as a simple web-based system of human indexing.
With this technique, you will be able to perform efficient indexing related files as HTML, XML, PDF or DOC.
Vikram Vaswani shows as a tutorial, using this technique with the use of the PECL extension
Read how to do this
Reading .MOD files on Mac OSX
If you want to read the .MOD files (from a JVC HD camera for exemple), this is what you need to do.
- Download Perian
- Install it and active it
- Rename your .MOD files in .MPEG files (all capital).
Enjoy 
The CRONs task
The CRON tasks allows you to execute scripts automatically. Many ways exists to do that but this can make some server's low performances, especialy connections to the mySQL server.
However some rules exists to elimintate some basics errors.
The blog MySQL Perfomances shows an optimised approach to avoid to surcharge it with an exemple in PHP.
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How to Keep WordPress Secure
An article about how it's important to keep your WordPress up to date, and how to secure your blog was posted on the WordPress.org development blog.
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Sending mails with PHPmailer and Gmail
Send HTML mail with an attachment requires an AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) with the definitional problems of over SMTP to the ISP bonus.
The site "Web Development Blog" proposes to use the same class as PHPMailer with Gmail SMTP. On arrival: fewer worries for sending emails, even when changing ISPs