If you want a PHP script to validate an email address here is a quick and simple PHP regular expression to do it. This script is also case-insensitive, so it will treat all characters as lower case. This script is a simple and  easy way to check the syntax and format of an email address.
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Been thinking of using a PHP framework found a very interesting slideshow on the Zend Framework. Any opinions?

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Found a great slide that talks about the top 10 mistakes when programming scalable applications with PHP. Discusses everything from hardware to AJAX. The AJAX piece I found to be very interesting. Check it out and give me your thoughts.

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Quick and easy way to validate email strings. I picked this bit of code up from somewhere, not sure where….Think it was the Zend site. Credit goes to the original unknown author, not me.
<?php
function is_email($address) {
$rc1 = (ereg(‘^[-!#$%&'*+./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+’.
‘@’.
‘[-!#$%&'*+\/0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+.’.
‘[-!#$%&'*+\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+$’,
$address));
$rc2 = (preg_match(‘/.+.ww+$/’,$address));
return ($rc1 && $rc2);
}
?>

In Opera, go to Tools –> Preferences, and click on the search tab. You should “Add a new search engine” and fill in the blanks. Here is what I use:.

Name: PHP
Keyword: p
Address: http://www.php.net/search.php
Query string: pattern=%s&show=quickref

You have to check “Use POST” to be able to type in a query string.
Click OK, [...]

Found a great little snippet of code to use for converting from American to Euro date format and back.

$date=’12/31/2006’;
print ereg_replace(”([0-9] )/([0-9] )/([0-9] )”,”\\2/\\1/\\3″,$date);
Thanks to last-child.com for the Snippet.
And from the comments below an even shorter snippet:
echo date( ‘m-d-Y’, strtotime( $date) );
Thanks Justin!

The following methods can help improve scalability with php applications.
1. object code caching
Whenever a request comes in for a php script, it has to go through the compiler and then execute the object code. If this is cached, you skip compiling and go straight to executing, hence a speed increase
There are quite a few object [...]

I know there are web developers out there that know squat about JavaScript. I know, I am one of them, I mean I can write something if I really have to but most things you need done with JavaScript you can find someone who has written a script, reference, library, framework that already does it….So [...]

You know when your programming in PERL or PHP and you just can’t think of that corresponding function? Well ease your mind. I have found a list that pairs them off and makes translating, either way, an much easier task. This list is great even if your not trying to translate from one [...]