PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 22:44:54 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Developer Tutorials Blog: Digg Clone: Start your own Digg in five minutes flat with PHP]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9922 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9922 Ever through about starting up your own custom version of a Digg-sort of site? Well, check out this new tutorial from the Developer Tutorials blog showing how to start it in "five minutes flat".

So, you want to start your own Digg or Reddit? Look no further. With PHP and MySQL, you can create your own Digg site in just five minutes. All you need is a PHP web server and MySQL database server; follow these instructions and you'll be up and running in time.

They use the Pligg software to do all of the hard work and describe its installation, configuration and use - simple and easy. You can find out more about Pligg on its website.

]]> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:25:55 -0500 <![CDATA[DevShed: Accessing Attributes and Cloning Nodes with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9891 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9891 DevShed continues their series about working with XML in PHP's DOM extension with this new tutorial posted today showing how to get at attributes for tags and cloning nodes from others.

You've probably realized that the DOM XML library can be pretty useful when working with web documents. However, this extension includes some other methods, which can be utilized to parse attributes of a given XML string, as well as to clone nodes.

They show how to use the getAttributes method, hasAttribue method and cloneNode method to work with their XML examples.

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