Google offers some cool AJAX APIs that can do a bunch of things and today we cover language detection. When you ... let's say ... scrape ... text sometimes you could use a sentence of few words to verify the language. This is not easy viable to do on your own but Google offers a way. It's probably part of the Globalization Agenda Google's part of but I won't discuss this here. Just enjoy it!
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My mildly wildly popular eHttpClient class no longer available on my old blog has evolved. It changed into elHttpClient, an all new toy for the fellow blackhats and php coders. eHttpClient is the one-stop solution for web downloading combining the power of cURL with PHP to provide a dead easy solution for your web downloading (scraping) needs.With basic knowledge you can do anything in terms of downloading web content.

This class has been by far my most popular share and brought in most feedback. I've looked into the feedback trying to make things even easier and this was born. Oh wtf ... the truth is I've written this for myself and decided to share it! I didn't care about no feedback.
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