Posts in category: Tutorials

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Development

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

HTML | Tutorials

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...

David Carr

HTML | Tutorials

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...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Extract image source from img tag

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

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

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...

David Carr

Tutorials | Development

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...

David Carr

Demos | Javascript | HTML | Tutorials

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...

David Carr

HTML | CSS | Tutorials

iframe set height to 100%

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

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Social Media

Post updates to Buffer using PHP

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

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

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.....

David Carr

Demos | Javascript | Tutorials

Duplicate form sections with jQuery

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

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Tools

Sending emails with PHPMailer and Mandrill

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

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

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...

David Carr

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

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

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