18 May 2013
Simple Member Only Page
Here's a quick way to secure a page so only logged in users can access it otherwise the user is shown a login page.
15 May 2013
Sending HTML emails & attachments using PHP & Swiftmailer
Sending email with raw PHP is very easy to do, but sending HTML email is a little more involved bring attachments into the equasion and it can get very complex. Thankfully there are easy ways of sending
25 Apr 2013
upcoming review: Instant Wijmo Widgets How-to
By David Carr On 25 April 2013 In Reviews
I’ve been asked to review a new Packt Publishing book called ’Instant Wijmo Widgets How-to’ written by Tochi Eke-Okoro I’m thrilled to have been asked to review the book I will be reading it and writing my review shortly
10 Apr 2013
Adding multiple times together in an array with PHP
Adding times together can be complex when taking seconds, minutes and hours into account of multiple time calculations add an array into the mix its even more complicated! This small class below enables multiple times to be
6 Apr 2013
Splitting a telephone number in php with substr
I recently had a collection of numbers in the format of area code then the telephone number with no spaces such as 01482123456 I needed a space after the area code so it would read 01482 123456
19 Mar 2013
How to upload videos to YouTube with PHP
Using the YouTube API its possible to upload videos to your own YouTube account using their API, this tutorial explains the steps necessary to accomplish this.
18 Mar 2013
Dynamically binding select menus with PHP & jQuery
I've recently had the need to show different select menus depending on what was selected in the first select menu, this guide will explain how to achieve this quickly.
27 Feb 2013
Autocomplete with PHP, MySQL and Jquery UI
A clean guide on creating an autocomplete input using jQuery UI & PHP
25 Jan 2013
Use advanced filters in Sequel Pro
By David Carr On 25 January 2013 In Development
Sequel Pro is a great remote database management tool, when viewing contents of a table there is a basic filter option at the top of the view. This is useful if your only after filtering a single
24 Jan 2013
Released new WordPress plugin WP Luminous – Syntax highlighter
I've recently come across a fantastic accurate and powerful syntax highlighting library built in PHP, There was a request on their Github page for a Wordpress version, the author of this library doesn't develop for Wordpress so
22 Jan 2013
getting the week commencing date and week number using PHP
Using php’s date function you can get all sorts of date combinations including finding the week commencing date for any date. The following function takes a date and returns the previous Monday’s date. [crayon-51a0e9f92da34/] Using this function