Tutorials

HTTPWebRequest WebProxy Proxies in C#

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create a HTTPWebRequest in C# using a proxy connection. Why Proxies? Proxies are sometimes required in certain web scraping applications due to the sheer amount of data that needs to scraped. Some sites temporarily - or even permanently - block IP addresses which are requesting/receiving large amounts of data in a short time to avoid the website's full bandwidth being used on that single IP, and therefore stopping the site from going offline for all other users as well.

Email Subscription List (2 - Sending Emails) in PHP/HTML

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This is a second part to my previous tutorial - 'Creating an Email Subscription List in PHP/MySQLi', found here; http://www.sourcecodester.com/tutorials/php/7813/email-subscription-list-phphtml.html Mail Function: Before we can begin with our actual email subscription email sending script, we need to know exactly how we are going to be sending our emails. Luckily enough, there is a built in function in to PHP called 'mail', guess what it does...

Email Subscription List in PHP/HTML

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create a simple email subscription service - part 1 - allowing the user to enter their email address. HTML: Before we can process any information the user enters and then add it to our database of email subscription addresses, we need to take the information from the user - for this we need a simple HTML form.

File I/O in PHP

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial is on how to perform file I/O in PHP. I/O? I/O stands for Input/Output, and means writing/reading to/from files on the system. PHP Tags: First we need three things; The file you want to write the contents to - this can be pre-existing, or not. The contenst to write to the file. The default PHP tags, ready to write our PHP code. Here are the PHP tags, in which we will write our code...