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Entries for February, 2009

Review: Weller WLC100 Soldering Station

I have started to take a renewed interest in electronics again lately and wanted to get a good soldering station to work with. I have a couple fixed wattage irons I use for my RC plane wiring but I wanted something adjustable with a variety of alternative tips available. I ordered a Weller WLC100 and [...]

How to use the PHP cURL module to make HTTP requests from PHP

Some of my previous posts talked about making HTTP/web requests from PHP with a focus on the PECL_HTTP request module: How to use the PECL HTTP (PECL_HTTP) Extension to make HTTP requests from PHP How to: PECL HTTP request exception and error handling PHP HttpRequest class options and notes How to use the file_get_contents() function [...]