Reading markdown files with parsedown

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Reading markdown files with parsedown

Read me files on GitHub are written in Markdown, I wanted to be able to grab the contents of a...

David Carr

Scraping GitHub

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Scraping GitHub

For an upcoming project I need to be able to dynamically get information about a GitHub repository s...

David Carr

comparing multiple values against in_array

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

comparing multiple values against in_array

PHP's in_array is useful to determine if an item is in an array but when needing to compare...

David Carr

Using Premailer to convert styles to inline styles for HTML emails automatically with PHP

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Using Premailer to convert styles to inline styles for HTML emails automatically with PHP

Sending HTML emails can be tricky, not all mail clients support the same css. Most ignore external s...

David Carr

PHP 7 Beta released

Development

PHP 7 Beta released

PHP recently announced the released: PHP 7.0.0 Beta 1, PHP 5.5.27  & PHP 5.6...

David Carr

Code Club kids earn their first term certificate

Personal | Development

Code Club kids earn their first term certificate

Today I’ve been to a very special Code Club assembly, to present a certificate to my class for...

David Carr

PHP 7 Alpha 1 released

Development

PHP 7 Alpha 1 released

Yesterday PHP 7.0.0 alpha 1 was released. The PHP development team announces the immediate avai...

David Carr

My PHP Story - 20 years of PHP

Personal | Development

My PHP Story - 20 years of PHP

Today is PHP’s 20th birthday! it’s incredible to think what it has become today. Th...

David Carr

Speed up your website using minify

Javascript | HTML | CSS | Tutorials | Tools | Development

Speed up your website using minify

One of the factors to consider when improving your search engine ranking is page speed. Reducing the...

David Carr

What type of web development tutorials do you prefer?

Tutorials | Development

What type of web development tutorials do you prefer?

I’ve been giving a lot of though to the tutorials I create recently, when I go through tutoria...

David Carr

Add hour to datetimepicker

Javascript | HTML | Tutorials

Add hour to datetimepicker

When working with dates and forms I like to use datepickers, these allow the users to use a calendar...

David Carr

Best PHP Framework for 2015 results for Simple MVC Framework

Nova Framework | Tools | Development

Best PHP Framework for 2015 results for Simple MVC Framework

The results are in today for Sitepoint’s Best PHP Framework for 2015 I’m extre...

David Carr

Forcing HTTPS with PHP

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Forcing HTTPS with PHP

Using HTTPS is recomended, Google also preferes HTTPS they recently announced: “HTTPS is&...

David Carr

Angular JS and HTML5 Admin Templates

Tools | Design

Angular JS and HTML5 Admin Templates

Keeping in mind the benefits and popularity of Angular JS we have developed few applications of...

Dan Sherwood

SitePoint's Best PHP Framework 2015 Survey

Nova Framework | Development

SitePoint's Best PHP Framework 2015 Survey

My framework Simple MVC Framework is in SitePoint’s Best PHP Framework 2015 Sur...

David Carr

Cpanel create emails with php

IMAP | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Cpanel create emails with php

Here’s a easy way to create new email addresses for Cpanel using PHP. I recently needed t...

David Carr

Create PDF with form data

Demos | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Create PDF with form data

It’s possible to populate a PDF using information provided by a form using the MPDF ...

David Carr

How to backup and restore a MySQL Database

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

How to backup and restore a MySQL Database

I was recently asked how do backup and restore a database. As with most things in programming there...

David Carr

Beginner Guides

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Tools | Development

Beginner Guides

The following is a collection of useful starter guides and tutorials.

David Carr

Using filters with Heidisql

Development

Using filters with Heidisql

This week I've been using a Windows machine to that end I needed to use a MySQL client I prefer...

David Carr

A week without my Mac

Personal

A week without my Mac

Recently the battery on my Mac has deteriorated a lot, to the point where it lasts only an hour or t...

David Carr

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