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Amazon uses a hierarchy of nodes to organize its various items. Each node represents a collection of items, such as Harry Potter books, not the items themselves. Browse node IDs are positive integers that uniquely identify product collections, for example, Literature & Fiction: (17), Medicine: (13996), Mystery & Thrillers: (18), Nonfiction: (53), Outdoors & Nature: [...]

Underscore.php is a PHP port of the popular Underscore.js library. Underscore.php provides a utility library for PHP that provides a lot of the functional programming support that a programmer would expect in Ruby, but without adding much overhead during execution. The only caveat is that underscore.php requires PHP 5.3 or greater. Although you could accomplish [...]

Opa is a new generation of web development platform – it is a new programming language, a new web server, a new database and a new distributed execution engine, all of them tightly integrated to provide a great experience for web developers. OPA is concise, simple and readable, it is also provides concurrent, dynamically distributed, [...]

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JavaScript Photo galleries are dime-a-dozen, with a large number of variations in size and features. But this particular one developed using Mootools is a breath of fresh air. Most galleries are spatially bounded, i.e. they have a limit how how much you can scroll in any direction.

In a previous post we saw how to detect human faces in images using JavaScript. In the current post we will look into a PHP port of a JavaScript face detection algorithm without using openCV. Since the code is completed written in PHP it cannot attain the raw speed that C,C++ provides, but for many [...]

Taking screenshos of websites is not a frequent requirement for developers but can come handy on many occasions. Although there are some nice solutions on the web, a particular one I found very good is wkhtmltoimage. wkhtmltoimage is a simple shell utility which can be used to convert html to images using the webkit rendering [...]

With a proliferation of mobile devices, web applications now need to be able to detect if it is being viewed on a mobile platform. The mobile detection library here can help you in these matters. Obviously I’ve not tested it on all available devices but it worked on a few I’ve got.Sample code and a [...]

Shopping carts are one of the most frequently used parts on the web. But for a programmer creating them has never been easy. Even for a few items the programmer has to create a database and other support files to create a functioning shopping cart. EasyBasket takes a different approach at creating a shopping cart; [...]

Most web security glitches are caused by insufficient input filtering and validation. Despite a large number of validation libraries being available, input sanitization is usually bypassed due to sheer laziness or the idea that your site is somehow immune from bad input data. Inspekt is one such library that has a small footprint and is [...]