http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com I'm a PHP Developer in a well known Company in the Middle east, I'm trying to introduce software technologies to my comunity in this Blog. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:52:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post just a reminder for me, as every time I need it, I look through the manual for options, to send a file through FTP using the command curl $ curl ftp://server/Path/To/Destenation -T FileToUpload -u username:password   I just keep forgetting it, hope it would help someone else :) http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2008/06/03/ftp-using-curl/ Working in PHP, all this time, and the big uses you find in regex, and all the string processing we need to, could make us forget our old friend that can easily solve a problem. sscanf, do you remember it, well, for quite some time I didn't, until I saw it ... http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2008/02/28/good-old-sscanf/ I've written a small CAPTCHA library, in an OO style, and I love to share it with you http://sourceforge.net/projects/php5captcha/ http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2008/02/16/php5-captcha/ As we start to transfer our code to stored procedures, now we would have to start putting more logic in MySQL than before. In the past we would create an sql statement in our hosting language, and pass it by to mysql, put as we see the more improvement of ... http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2007/06/03/mysql-dynamic-select-quires/ The original plan had been to create an online game. But they were just about out of money. And then Butterfield had this crazy vision of building a photo-sharing website, and before you knew it Flickr was a cultural phenomenon. Ya-hoooo! more http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2006/12/04/butterfield-and-fake-how-they-started-flicker/ http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2006/12/04/how-much-do-you-love-firefox/ http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2006/12/04/firefox/ What is wrong with multi-line comments? this is the question I'm asking myself right now, since I started programming I loved multi-line comments, (actually the comments you have to specify where do they end). My first programming language was Pascal, they had comments like { my comments are here }, then ... http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2006/12/03/i-love-and-i-hate/ After my first failure to fail, now I hold the Zend PHP 5 Certification, it was a tough day day for me, it was like: 6:30 I started the second Mock-Up Exam, I passed it, but my results were worse than the first, "OK Ala'a, don't panic, you might just be tired", ... http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2006/11/25/once-again-i-failed-to-fail/ when it comes to IMAP programming, you should be very careful about IMAP commands you are issuing, an unneeded call can make your page much slower, that's why usually IMAP Developers avoid programming with the php IMAP functions, yes they are written in C (c-client), but they don't give you ... http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2006/11/22/playing-with-pear-net_imap/