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Posts in category: Tutorials

HTML | Tutorials

HTML5 support for older browsers

Sitepoint released a great post today HTML5 Forms: The Markup it explains the various inpu...

David Carr

11th Jun 2014 08:16 AM

Demos | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Form to CSV with PHP

Outputting a forms contents to a CSV file is incredibly handy and easy to do, this post will cover t...

David Carr

7th May 2014 08:08 AM

Demos | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Display Xbox live data with xboxapi and cache it

Xbox does not provide an official API for anyone to use. Their are a few sites that provide an API o...

David Carr

5th May 2014 11:13 AM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Macaw: Route closures and controllers

Build the foundations of an application with the Macaw routing class to route requests to closures o...

David Carr

8th Apr 2014 10:16 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Collect remote CSV file and save to a local CSV file using PHP

Here is a quick way to read a csv file hosted remotely, download its contents and store it to a loca...

David Carr

8th Apr 2014 10:12 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Retain rows when using a GROUP BY with GROUP_CONCAT

Keep rows that would normally be lost when selecting rows using a COUNT and GROUP By. To keep say an...

David Carr

25th Mar 2014 09:32 AM

Demos | Blog | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 6 Pagination

In this part pagination will be added to create the posts into pages, to limit how many posts are di...

David Carr

9th Mar 2014 08:14 PM

Demos | Blog | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 5 Sidebar, Categories and Archives

This part will add a sidebar to the blog and list latest posts, categories and archives.

David Carr

6th Mar 2014 09:31 AM

Wordpress | Tutorials

Importing Wordpress posts to another system using the exported XML file

I recently moved away from Wordpress to my own system, one of the challenges I faced was moving my p...

David Carr

11th Feb 2014 07:24 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Login and Registration system with PHP

This tutorial will cover creating a login system with registration upon registering an activation li...

David Carr

1st Feb 2014 08:56 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Writing to an existing PDF with PHP

On a recent project I had the needed to modify an existing PDF, the modification would be done dynam...

David Carr

23rd Jan 2014 08:11 AM

IMAP | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Connecting to Gmail with imap_open

Using PHP connecting to an POP/IMAP server is a relatively easy process, it can be useful for using...

David Carr

22nd Jan 2014 11:28 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Use Google finance calculator to convert currency with PHP

Convert currency from one country to another easily with Google's finance calculator, using that...

David Carr

21st Dec 2013 09:14 AM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Detecting dynamic form submissions with php

Here's a very simple way to detect if a form has been submitted, I've recently wrote a plugi...

David Carr

14th Dec 2013 11:23 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Free Web Development E-Book Giveaway from Developer.Press

Fancy getting your hands on the essential PHP ebook PHP Array Filtering: The Use Cases or...

David Carr

12th Dec 2013 12:24 PM