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The client has a large volume of content namely stock market news for different companies. The client site is integrated with multiple third-party systems where real-time news articles are aggregated via custom API integrations. The information thus received is sent as the content of the bulk subscription emails for the different users real-time, daily, and weekly. The issue or the problem was with the emails sent to users who are subscribed to a watch-list. A watch-list is a set of companies that the user is interested in so that emails will be sent in constant intervals (daily or weekly) with the news of these companies. These watch-list emails could contain hundreds of content titles and other data. But the issue was Gmail clip’s emails that have size in excess of 102 Kb.

There will be many situations when you need to handle files from an FTP server in PHP. PHP provides a handful of functions to do the task quite easily, but there are some hidden difficulties too. So here I am going to explain the process of connecting to and FTP server and handling files there.

Git is a version control system which is distributed and is famous for its speed and efficiency. Git is different from its predecessors in so many ways, it handles the data as snapshots rather than file differences. Also almost all the operations in git is done at the local repository thus called distributed. Since all the operations are local it gives the power of speed to the end user.However more than this git also provides some tools which makes the git usage more easier and also increases the user friendliness.

Since a long time, I have been using the grep utility to search in code, and I am pretty comfortable with the tool. However, recently I came across git grep. The main advantage of this tool, when compared with the normal grep, is the speed of search. Read on to know how to use git grep to speed up development and coding.

A constant is a name for a simple value, which will not change at the time of execution. The main advantages are ranges from setting configuration values to saving integer values to be checked as strings (like status codes). PHP provides functions for constant values, which make the usage more easier. These functions are important in Drupal too, since we may need those when working in Drupal projects.

jQuery is a famous javascript library used widely. It allows the developer to create very complex client side operational web tools easily. The jQuery is actually allows us to work on the DOM tree which has various html elements used in the webpages.

The feedAPI module is a famous one for processing custom feeds in different formats like rss/Atom, csv, iCal etc. Now the feedAPI has upgraded to the "feeds",which have more features and easy to use and customize. However still a lot of Drupal 6 sites uses the feedAPI module for handling external feeds. Let us see how a new parser could be created in feed API module.