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Ok I’ve been playing with Javascript frameworks like Jquery and Prototype. Now by default Jquery is 54KB and Prototype is 130KB (at the time of writing this). As you can see these are not small files. Now this is where gzip comes in. An easy way to describe gzip is that your server zips up the file before sending it to the web browser and the web browser then unzips it. Anyway by gzipping these two files using some PHP I have got Jquery down to 19KB and prototype down to 30KB!!!!

So we have Jquery:
Original Size: 54 KB
Gzipped Size: 19 KB
Data Savings: 64.81%

and prototype:
Original Size: 131 KB
Gzipped Size: 30 KB
Data Savings: 77.1%

All testing done using mod_zip test.

Anyway on to the code.
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Ok been a while since I posted anything so thought I would post my tutorial on using the PHP mail() function. I have basically copied my tutorial word for word from the Lazarus forum.

This is a brief (or not) tutorial on using the PHP mail() function to send emails from your scripts.

bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )

Let’s break that down. The bool means that the PHP mail function returns either true or false depending on if it was successful or not. The rest is pretty self explanatory. string $to is where we put the email address we want to send to. string $subject is where we put the emails subject and string $message is where we put our message. The string part just means that this variable will be treated as a string when used. We will cover $additional_headers a bit later and won’t even touch on $additional_parameters.

Ok so we want to send an email to Bill Gates with the subject Windows Linux and our message is When is it coming out?. The function we would use looks like this

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