Eddie On Everything

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Entries Tagged ‘web development’

Validating an Email Address with PHP’s filter_var isn’t perfect

So I’m working on a project where I need to validate that the user has entered a correct email address.
I don’t really care if someone sticks in a “fake” email address – to complete registration, the user needs to enter a confirmation code that I send via email, so if they put in a fake [...]

Opera changes third-party iframe cookie handing in latest release

The support requests for my Facebook-based application started coming in today:
“This application isn’t working in Opera!”
“I just keep getting redirected! I’m using Opera.”
“Your site is BROKEN! Please fix it IMMEDIATELY SO I CAN ACCESS MY ACCOUNT!! I’m in Opera!”
Odd, because it *used* to work in Opera. [...]

  

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