A very simple tutorial to send an e-mail directly from a PHP script using the built-in mail() function. Great for processing forms or just to debug an application.
For sending more advanced e-mail, including HTML, we recommend the PHPMailer class, however, for sending a basic e-mail the easy way, we use this simple function provided by PHP.
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Form spammers are one of the most annoying things facing website owners and developers. These are the guys which create automated bots to fill in your forms with spam, in the hope that it will be posted on your website. Thankfully, there are ways around this!
Our blog is constantly under attack from these spammers and [...]
Search engine optimisation, or SEO as it’s commonly known is a vital part of any website development project. Nearly 75% of your website visitors will come from search engines, so it’s never been more important to make sure your website is ranked effectively. This article discusses some of the techniques used to optimise a website [...]
Almost all modern web applications contain a login of some description. Whether you give your visitors benefits from being a registered user or run an online store, a login form is essential. This article describes one of the many ways to implement this facility using PHP and MySQL. The login process checks for an invalid [...]
Aside from having a search engine friendly website the most influential factor to gaining better organic results in search engines is by obtaining in-bound links (IBLs). In other words, we want other relevant websites to link your website. Be prepared for long nights crawling the web in search of websites to approach. Thankfully, there are [...]
osCommerce is a fully featured open-source (free) online shop which can be downloaded from www.oscommerce.com. While it’s abundant with features there are a few tweaks that should be done before launching your e-commerce website. This first part describes how to automatically rename all uploaded images to prevent images being overwritten.
When you upload a product, category, [...]
We’ve all seen them. Those funny orange icons dotted around the Internet with the words RSS, feed, and subscribe. This article explains what RSS actually is and how we can all use it to help our everyday tasks run more efficiently.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a format for sharing data, typically from a website. For [...]
Can you beat our top score of 782? Are you up to the challenge? We’ve spent the last 12 months practicing and challenge anyone to top our score! Post your feeble attempts in the comments below and the winner will receive a smashing Sudoku Game worth £30! Enjoy and Good Luck!
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This tutorial goes through the basics of bringing your photos to life using level and colour adjustment in Adobe Photoshop by putting the colour back into those washed out looking photos.
We are going to use this rather dull and washed out image of a horse in the New Forest, taken using a digital camera.
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Without going into the intricacies of HTML or plain text e-mails this tutorial gets stuck into the ‘nitty gritty’ code required to successfully send e-mail newsletters. While there are ready made solutions on the market to manage mailing lists and send out bulk e-mail, there’s nothing like building your own - with the ability to [...]