Outputting formatted XML using PHP
For an interpreter it doesn’t matter how much whitespace there is in an XML document and often you find that machines strip it all out to reduce the amount of bandwidth used. Often at the receiving end you want to show the output in a log file or page and need it to be formatted [...]
Validating an e-mail address according to RFC 2822
E-mail addresses are bitches! There, now that is said I can tell why. Should you ever have time on your hands you should read RFC 2822, it provides an interesting (though somewhat dull) background into e-mail messaging. Alas one can also see why it is so hard to validate an e-mail address, it is an [...]
Generating passwords in PHP
There are those things you encounter again and again and again. Generating passwords is one of those. My experience is that whenever an application needs to be created which deals with user account creation, it is best to let my application create a password for the user. Why? Simply, I am lazy. Good developers and [...]
