php Archives - David Carr - Web Developer Hull

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

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

28 Jul 2012

Highlight matched words in a search

By David Carr On 28 July 2012 In PHP, Tutorials

This tutorial will show you how to highlight words from a search.

26 Mar 2012

Creating an image gallery from a folder of images automatically

By David Carr On 26 March 2012 In PHP, Tutorials

This tutorial will show you how to quickly create a gallery from a folder of images. Using PHP and making use of TimThumb a very handy image resizing script available from http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/ this script lets you resize

1 Mar 2012

Adding Events to Microsoft Outlook from PHP using ICAL

By David Carr On 1 March 2012 In Development, PHP, Tutorials

I’ve recently been trying to find the best way of creating a calendar event outlook from a php driven application. At first I looked into way of communication with the exchange server directly I soon realized this

27 Nov 2011

I’ve been invited to be a technical reviewer for an upcoming book (PHP and CouchDB Web Development) from Packt publishing.

By David Carr On 27 November 2011 In Articles

I'm thrilled to be asked to review the book, I've of course agreed to review the book which will be done over the next few months it's expected to be released in March next year.

27 Jul 2011

Reading events from an iCal Calendar using PHP

By David Carr On 27 July 2011 In PHP, Tutorials

Reading event/calender information from iCal can be very useful this tutorial will show you how to read and use the information in a practical way.

13 Jul 2011

Convert mobile number to international format dynamically with php

By David Carr On 13 July 2011 In PHP, Tutorials

I often need to covert mobile numbers into a UK international format of 44 followed by the number such as 442548951486 the numbers I work with can be in a mixed format some without a starting 0

12 Jul 2011

Create a DOC file with PHP on the fly

By David Carr On 12 July 2011 In PHP, Tutorials

Ever wanted to save a page to a word doc file? this tutorial shows you just how easy it is to do. Turns out using the very super friendly header tag that's built into php will do