Ever want to build a chat application or perhaps even a game? If so, a socket server will help you get started. Once you understand the underlying functionality of creating the server, enhancing it is just as easy.
The way a socket server works is, it will be running continously and waiting for a client to connect to it. When a client connects, our server will add it to our list of clients and begin waiting for messages from that client.
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Hi folks, I have just finished creating my first CakePHP component and I wanted to share it with the community. After I finish writing this article, I will be submitting it to CakePHP for inclusion.
The component is called StringExtractComponent. As you may guess, it extracts content from a piece of content. I have created this component to mimic the STREXTRACT function in Microsoft Visual FoxPro. I have come to fall in love with this function because it makes retrieving data from a string with a start and end delimiter. I’ve also created two other examples with SQL substring between two characters SQL substring between two characters as well as a String Extract Extension Method with C#.
To help you understand how it is used, I read the contents of one of my articles into a string. I then proceed to extract a specific section that is contained within the code syntaxes that exist in the article and it is important to truncate a string.
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If you are new to creating Facebook applications or even if you’re not. When you go to use $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’] you might be in for a surprise when this _SERVER variable does not exist!
Just recently I encountered this problem, when I thought about it for a few seconds it made sense why the variable wasn’t there. Your server cannot properly track the history because every page request in your Facebook application occurs through a request from a Facebook server, not the user them self. (more…)