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PHP redirection to HTTPS SSL »

If you wish to redirect one of your pages to HTTPS, even when user enters HTTP in the URL, you can use the following lines of code before you load your PHP page.

if (empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) || ($_SERVER['HTTPS']!=”on”))
{
$redirect= “https://”.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
header(“Location:$redirect”);
}

PHP Template Engines »

Good template engines make it easy to work with designers, especially when the web application is quite big. I used Code Igniter for a big application before, without using its template parser class. I regret it now, because it is becoming increasingly painful to make changes to different parts of the application. But again, I did not use CI template engine, because I did not believe it to be as powerful as Smarty and others.

PHP has some great template engines and here is a list of some promising ones.