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18 May 2013

Simple Member Only Page

By David Carr On 18 May 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

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

By David Carr On 15 May 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

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

10 Apr 2013

Adding multiple times together in an array with PHP

By David Carr On 10 April 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

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

By David Carr On 6 April 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

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

By David Carr On 19 March 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

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

By David Carr On 18 March 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

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

By David Carr On 27 February 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

A clean guide on creating an autocomplete input using jQuery UI & PHP

22 Jan 2013

getting the week commencing date and week number using PHP

By David Carr On 22 January 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

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-519a338d85105/] Using this function

21 Jan 2013

Generate a PDF from a web page

By David Carr On 21 January 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

Easily convert a web page into a PDF with MPDF, this library makes it possible to take a webpage and turn it into a PDF viewable on the site or offer it as a download. A handy

20 Jan 2013

Pagination with a PHP class

By David Carr On 20 January 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

I’ve recently wrote a pagination class for php, I used to do this in a procedural way by using functions, it’s always worked fine, but its not as reusable as a class is. I’ve released this class

2 Jan 2013

Connecting to your MySQL database with PDO (PHP Data Object)

By David Carr On 2 January 2013 In PHP, Tutorials

It's been coming for some time but mysql_ has been officially depreciated and will be removed completely from future versions of PHP. Instead you can use either Mysqli or PDO personally I prefer PDO it also seems

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