Posts in category: Tutorials

Development | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

How to Set up PHP Statistics

Sometimes you need to make improvements to your code and make things more efficient. Using some simp...

Dan Sherwood

Tutorials | HTML

Using Notifications API combined with page visibility API

HTML 5 has some great API’s one of which is the notifications api which lets you set browser n...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | HTML

HTML 5 Submit form - multiple actions with formaction

When working with forms there are often times it would be really handy to be able to submit the form...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Extract image source from img tag

To extract the image source from an image tag making use of preg_replace and a regular exp...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Checking all array keys are the same with PHP

Here is a simple way to check the values of an array contain the same value using array_count_values...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tutorials

Stop MAMP delay between saving and viewing changes

I’ve noticed recently when using MAMP to test PHP 7 that changes are not shown right away when...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Javascript | Demos | Tutorials | HTML

Dynamically set iframe properties with jQuery

Using jQuery it’s possible to pass properties to set the src, width and height of an iframe fr...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

CSS | Tutorials | HTML

iframe set height to 100%

Iframes are useful to loading external pages into an existing page and avoiding any style conflicts,...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Social Media | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Post updates to Buffer using PHP

Buffer is a great social media management tool, perfect to scheduling facebook and twitter updates....
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Leverage PHP to decrease page load times

Increase your page speed by merging your various css and js files into a single css and js file.....
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Javascript | Demos | Tutorials

Duplicate form sections with jQuery

When working with forms it can be incredibly useful to duplicate parts of the form, for instance whe...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | Tools

Sending emails with PHPMailer and Mandrill

Sending emails with PHP’s mail function is not recommended it’s not reliable and hard to...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Create a list of items from a folder using scandir

Quick tip to create a list page that will read the files from a directory and link to them is super...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Scraping GitHub

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

David Carr

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