Posts in category: Tutorials

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Get initials from a name

Here is a simple way to collect the first letter of each word, This can be useful to get say a perso...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Quick way to add hours and minutes with PHP

This post describes a very simple way to add or sub-tract time to a given time using the date and st...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | HTML

HTML5 support for older browsers

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

David Carr

Demos | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Demos | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Macaw: Route closures and controllers

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

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Demos | Tutorials | Blog | PHP & MySQL

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Demos | Tutorials | Blog | PHP & MySQL

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.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | Wordpress

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Login and Registration system with PHP

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

David Carr

IMAP | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Use Google finance calculator to convert currency with PHP

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

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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