How to Post Data with cURL in PHP

Do you need to post data to a website using PHP? It’s actually pretty easy to do. Here’s the code.

< ?php
$urltopost = "http://somewebsite.com/script.php";
$datatopost = array (
"firstname" => "Mike",
"lastname" => "Lopez",
"email" => "my@email.com",
);

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PHP cURL Tutorial and Example

Do you want to learn how to use cURL in PHP? Well, if so then this tutorial is for you. But before anything else, what is cURL?

cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax. The strong point of cURL is the number of data transfer protocols it supports. It is distributed under the MIT License which makes cURL free software. It supports FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, SCP, SFTP, Telnet, DICT, FILE and LDAP. – based on Wikipedia’s definition

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How to Correctly Render Transparent PNG images in Internet Explorer

PNG images are more often better than GIF when it comes to rendering images with transparency mainly because GIF can only support 256 colors while PNG can support 32-bit colors. Here’s a graphical comparison between the two.

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I’m a Potentate of the Rose

Be a Potentate of the Rose by playing Petals of the RoseOh yes! I finally cracked the code after spending almost an hour trying to figure the logic of the puzzle and I officially became a Potentate of the Rose. The game is called Petals Around the Rose and it’s quite a nasty game. My friend Kiel introduced me to it and I was somehow perplexed at how he came up with the right answers until I finally “got it!”

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Setting up your PHP Development Environment

I realized that a lot of people who want to learn PHP are having hard time getting started with it – not because PHP is difficult to use or understand but simply because they don’t know where to start. Because of this, I decided to write this short how-to on getting started with PHP. It covers all the necessary stuff to setup Apache, PHP, and MySQL as well as to install one of my favorite PHP editors.

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Google Translate Working Example

As promised, here’s a sample implementation of the Google Translate API.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Google Translate</title>
<script language="javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script language="javascript">
 google.load ("language", "1");
 function gtrans (f) {
  document.getElementById("translation").innerHTML = "-";
  var lang = f.langpair.value.split("|");
  google.language.translate (f.translate.value, lang[0], lang[1], function (result) {
   if (!result.error) {
    var container = document.getElementById("translation").innerHTML = result.translation;
   }
  });
  return false;
 }
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form onsubmit="return false">
 <p>Enter text to translate and click "Translate"</p>
 <textarea name="translate" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea>
 <br />
 <select name="langpair">
  <option value="ar|en">Arabic to English</option>
  <option value="zh|en">Chinese to English</option>
  <option value="zh-CN|zh-TW">Chinese (Simplified to Traditional)</option>
  <option value="zh-TW|zh-CN">Chinese (Traditional to Simplified)</option>
  <option value="nl|en">Dutch to English</option>
  <option value="en|ar">English to Arabic</option>
  <option value="en|zh-CN">English to Chinese (Simplified)</option>
  <option value="en|zh-TW">English to Chinese (Traditional)</option>
  <option value="en|nl">English to Dutch</option>
  <option value="en|fr">English to French</option>
  <option value="en|de">English to German</option>
  <option value="en|el">English to Greek</option>
  <option value="en|it">English to Italian</option>
  <option value="en|ja">English to Japanese</option>
  <option value="en|ko">English to Korean</option>
  <option value="en|pt">English to Portuguese</option>
  <option value="en|ru">English to Russian</option>
  <option value="en|es">English to Spanish</option>
  <option value="fr|en">French to English</option>
  <option value="fr|de">French to German</option>
  <option value="de|en">German to English</option>
  <option value="de|fr">German to French</option>
  <option value="el|en">Greek to English</option>
  <option value="it|en">Italian to English</option>
  <option value="ja|en">Japanese to English</option>
  <option value="ko|en">Korean to English</option>
  <option value="pt|en">Portuguese to English</option>
  <option value="ru|en">Russian to English</option>
  <option value="es|en">Spanish to English</option>
 </select>
 <input type="button" value="Translate" onclick="gtrans(this.form)" />
 <p id="translation" style="border:1px solid #00f;padding:5px;width:400px">-</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Javascript Based Google Translate API Released

If you need to translate your website from one language to another then I have some good news for you. Google Translate has released a JavaScript based API that’s both easy to use and implement. It can handle 13 different languages and as much as 29 language pairs.

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AJAX Username Validation

Form input validation is sometimes an annoying part in web development but it’s something that we web developers can’t avoid. In order to make sure that the data being entered by our users are valid, we simply have to validate. Another good use of validation is to provide feedback to the user on whether what they are typing is acceptable or not.

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AJAX Introduction

Ever wondered what AJAX is? AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is not a programming language in itself but rather a combination of different web development techniques. Furthermore, AJAX technology is not new though it has only been popularized recently especially by Google (Google Maps, GMail, Google Calendar, etc.)

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Stormy Skies WordPress Theme

Download: Stormy Skies WordPress Theme Package.

Finally, a new and appropriate theme for this blog. Introducing the Stormy Skies WordPress theme. It’s designed for 1024×768 screens and supports widgets. The screenshot below shows the original look of the theme, with no graphics in the header.

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