I don’t know about you, but I do a lot of contests and one the things that you have to handle is what to do when the contest closes. So I thought it might be good to share a helpful code snippet that I use often just for this case.
Email validation is a common task that most developers have to deal with on a regular basis. Far too often the complex approach is taken (regular expressions), when PHP 5 has a super simple way to validate / sanitize your email string.
Every wanted to display information from an excel document on a website? Ever wanted to do it asynchronously? Today is your lucky day. This article will show you how to load in an excel document using php, jquery and ajax.
In the last tutorial we covered how to reorder a list by dragging and dropping. In this tutorial we will show how to save the order of the list via Ajax.
There are quite a few malicious users out there. If you haven’t considered your backend security, your website could be in a world of trouble from attacks. This is a beginners guide to what the bare minimums are when it comes to security.
In a previous tutorial we showed how to use AJAX with jQuery.. We created a simple input box that outputs info from the server after each character you type in. In this tutorial we will take one step further and create an auto complete feature, much like Google or Yahoo’s search box.
AJAX offers users a seamless way to work with your interface, no waiting for whole pages to load. jQuery has a set of tools to make it super simple to implement. We will walk you through how to use jQuery to connect to PHP so you can step up your user interface.
Don’t hassle with image processing software if you don’t have to. This post will show you how to automate your thumbnail making with PHP.
Here is a list of Simplepie tutorials to help out beginners find their way.
A quick way to speed up your site is to simply limit how much the user has to download. This tutorial will show you how to automatically gzip (compress) your files with PHP.