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On her blog today, Ligaya Turmelle mentions the review that Slashdot.org has done for their book “The PHP Anthology 2nd Edition” (SitePoint).

From the review:

The primary strength of this book is the significant amount of information provided to the reader, in the form of summaries of critical Web programming problems, working PHP code that addresses those problems, discussion as to why each particular approach was taken, and occasional asides that warn the reader about special difficulties that they might encounter as they implement the solutions within their own development environments and for their own projects

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Website Copywriting Is About Trigger WordsWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 30 of November , 2007 at 10:23 am

In your website copywriting, are you using emotional trigger words? This is the one thing that I see more often on website copy - copywriters not using the trigger words.

Trigger words are words that trigger an emotional response. You want that response to be an appropriate response for your product or service - one that inspires action. It doesn’t necessarily have to mean a positive response. Trigger words could be words that provoke fear, love, greed, self-confidence, lust … and it must be appropriate to your product or service. In other words, if your website is about food then you want people to get hungry, not greedy for money.

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Ed Finkler has pointed out a handy resource for those trying to cope with using the UTF-8 support included in several of PHP’s functions - this page on the Web Application Component Toolkit wiki.

This page is intended as a reference for functionality PHP provides which can either help with handling UTF-8 or should be regarded as a risk when used in conjunction with UTF-8 encoded strings. Further information can be found on the Internationalization (I18N) and Character Sets / Character Encoding Issues pages.

It talks about the “dangerous” functionality PHP has (issues that the language has in current functions) when using things like the PCRE extension, the string extension, the array methods, handling variables, the XML extensions (DOM and SAX), image manipulation, and URL parsing functionality.

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Just added my File_S3 proposal to PEPR.

Check it out, give it a wirllllll - gimme feedback:
http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=519

So basically what this package allows you to do is, you can open/write/delete files and directories (aka buckets) directly into Amazon S3 referencing it by paths like s3://my_fancy_bucket/file.

And thanks to Darshan from easybib who pretty much sponsors my time on anything pear-related right now.

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Do You Have Duplicate Content On Your Site?Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Thursday, 7 of February , 2008 at 2:53 pm

This is helpful, from Matt Cutts:

I often get questions from whitehat sites who are worried that they might receive duplicate content penalties because they have the same article in different formats ( e.g. a paginated version and a printer-ready version). While it’s helpful to try to pick one of those articles and exclude the other version from indexing, typically a whitehat site doesn’t neet to worry about 1-3 versions of an article on their own site.

In other words, if you have 2 or 3 versions of the same article on your own website and it doesn’t exist anywhere else then you don’t have anything to worry about with duplicate content. That’s because the search engines index the best version of an article or web content. That’s why you can have the original article, a .pdf version, another version for easy printing, etc. You won’t have to worry about penalties. That’s a very important distinction.

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All of us here at DevZone want to Congratulate our friend Chris Cornutt and his site phpdeveloper.org for reaching the 10,000 post milestone!

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I’m currently working on re-authoring and re-building the Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization, section by section. You can read more about this project here.

Keyword research is one of the most important, valuable and high return activities in the search marketing field. Through the detective work of puzzling out your market’s keyword demand, you not only learn which terms and phrases to target with SEO, but also learn more about your customers as a whole. The usefulness of this intelligence cannot be overstated - with keyword research you can predict shifts in demand, respond to changing market conditions and produce the products, services and content that web searchers are already actively seeking. In the history of marketing, there has never been such a low barrier to entry in understanding the motivations of consumers in virtually every niche - not taking advantage is practically criminal.

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PHPBuilder.com has posted part two of a series they’re working through introducing PHP developers to the world of exception handling in the Postgres database.

Last week we left off with an example where notice, exception and log levels are sent to the client. This week we present more POSTGRES exception examples, and continue with our article on Postgres exception handling.

They create a few examples:

handling other error conditions with OTHERS
using f_ex2
returning NO_DATA_FOUND and TOO_MANY_ROWS
handling exceptions like table constraints
nested exceptions
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The Zend Developer Zone is hosting a special event involving the PHP Women’s user group - a live podcast as a part of the PHP Abstract series happening December 4th.

PHPWomen.org recently celebrated it’s first birthday. To honor the occasion, four of it’s prominent members, Ligaya Turmelle, Elizabeth Naramore, Elizabeth Smith and Sara Golemon have agreed to sit down with me on the phone and talk about PHPWomen.org, it’s goals, how well they feel they are achieving them, and why the #phpwomen chat room has nice wallpaper and a couch in it.

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