I’ve just discovered, totally by accident, how to get HTTP Authentication (when the browser pops up a dialog asking for the username and password - usually set with a .htaccess file) values within PHP. Previously, I’d just assumed that the authentication was a “black box” and I was unable to use it within my scripts. I had done some experimentation to see if any of the information was present in the _POST or _COOKIE arrays to no avail.
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Having attended the greatly motivational @media conference last week, I’ve come away feeling more enthusiastic about the up and coming microformats movement.
Last year, during @media 2006, I was introduced to the concept for the first time. In its simplest form, it’s a way of wrapping web content within a set of standardised class names. The idea being that if everyone uses these class names, it makes it very simple for other systems to parse and pluck out the data. The example given was marking up personal details as an hCard which could then be linked to the Technorati contact generator. The generator will parse the page and offer you a vCard file for download, which you can then import into Outlook or some other address book software.
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