Do you think your website is sluggish? Does it take a lot of time to download on to a user computer? Here are some techniques to make your site load faster on user computers and enhance it’s performance. These are some of the best practices followed in the Web industry. Implementing these practices has proved that your site will become 20-30%...

Often, we come across situations where we need to INSERT multiple rows in to a database table from an Array, File or even from another Database Table. I am explaining various methods for inserting multiple rows using a single query using MySQL and PHP. MySQL documentation says you can use the following methods to speed up inserts: If you are inserting...

A small article for those who want to experience with Regular Expressions in PHP. Regular expressions, also referred to as regex or regexp, provide a concise and flexible means for matching strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Regular expressions are used by many text editors, utilities, and programming languages...

This article covers two things. 1) Error handling in Perl using EVAL Block 2) Using the EVAL Block feature to check whether a directory exists on a remote FTP location. The first time ever I had to work in Perl was last month when I was asked to look in to an issue with sending a file to a remote FTP from the server. Basically, the perl script fetches...

I have no reasons for posting this article here. But I’m sure someone can get some insight from this. This is a good example of making use of recursive function calls also known as recursion. It takes the form of a function that calls itself. Recursive functions or recursion are something that needs a little more attention as you have to be sure that...