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a lot of Http user agent strings

Just a shoort note: I f you need some actual user-agent strings we have collected 96.320 different ones for you. They are from a web-statistics tool we'll get into in a few weeks.

They are all in one .zip compressed file, one sting per line.

How to make a mirrored text in php

Sometimes we want to handle text, but we want to present that text in a much cooler way than what is possible with CSS and HTML. We want a really cool designer that gives us fresly photoshopped headers for all our stories. But somehow we do not get it, as it takes a lot of time to make all text into graphics, it's not easy, and in case of a redesign everything will have to be done again.. So we never actually do this. Until now!

This scripts generates a picture that contains your text as a PNG-image, with a transparent reflection underneath. It's like a photoshop-light for those of us that only care about headlines on our web..

PHP Code generator

One of the most repetitive task a web developer has to deal with is making forms to populate mysql-databases. Scripts that read the database tables, scritps that write to the tables, scripts that link to other script that makes it possible to change the content of a single line in a table.

About Practical php

Practical php is all about how to use php in the most practical way. There are many sites dedicated to PHP, and they all have thousands of tips and tricks on how to do things. But most of them require you to use external libraries such as PEAR, Zend and others to work. Or PHP-classes made by people you do not know, that all of a sudden does not get maintained. And then you are stuck.