This fourth article the Globalize your Web Applications series deals with something that's at the forefront of your web apps: the character sets. More specifically, we'll be taking a look at the Universal Character Set (UCS) and its role in creating multilingual web pages.
Learn how to create a simple, online storefront, which can be used as a foundation to build more sophisticated online shopping carts, with PHP and MySQL.
The OAuth token-based authorization system allows users to grant third-party access to their resources without sharing their usernames and passwords. It's perfect for the age of data scattered across many social networking sites.
JavaScript's error-capturing mechanisms not advanced enough for your web applications? Here's a novel way to log JavaScript errors using an AJAX-driven web service.
Scott Clark was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite, which is a big step up from an ordinary discussion forum; in fact, it's a complete publishing system. Learn about the main features and find out why Scott gives it a thumbs up.
In part 3 of the Globalize your Web Applications series, we'll be exploring PHP's I18N_Number and I18N_Currency classes, both of which are part of the I18N Libraries.
One Open Source CMS that stands out above the rest for small businesses and personal networks is the Elgg open source "social engine," which can be used to create social applications. Scott Clark shows you how to install and get started with this social networking CMS.
When the HTTP protocol was designed, it was assumed that data transmission would be secure. Times have changed and network security has become much more important to us, especially for certain tasks. Sukrit Dhandhania shows you how to set up Secure Sockets Layer.
To input text in languages other than your keyboard default on Windows platforms, you'll need to do some tweaking. Learn how to enable various International Unicode Keyboards in Windows XP.
Apache is one of the most successful open source projects of our times. A big advantage of this popularity is that over the years people have spent a great deal of time fine tuning the software for better performance. Read on to learn more.
CSS 3 is well on its way and promises some amazing features, including scrollable divs. There are several implementations of custom scrollbars, but the following implementation works across all popular browsers and supports scrolling with the mouse wheel.
Want to give your website a more broad appeal and increase readership? Who doesn't?! Your site could benefit by introducing some non-English material. Today's article will focus on various tools that you'll need to produce multilingual HTML documents.
With an online shopping cart administration tool in place, you can easily create administrators and non-administrators for your PHP site and manage their privileges and tasks accordingly.