Posts in category: Tutorials

Dynamically set iframe properties with jQuery

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...

25th Oct 2015 12:03 AM

iframe set height to 100%

HTML | CSS | Tutorials

iframe set height to 100%

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

24th Oct 2015 11:30 PM

Post updates to Buffer using PHP

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....

12th Oct 2015 09:45 AM

Leverage PHP to decrease page load times

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.....

27th Aug 2015 10:34 PM

Duplicate form sections with jQuery

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...

22nd Aug 2015 09:15 PM

Sending emails with PHPMailer and Mandrill

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...

22nd Aug 2015 04:23 PM

Create a list of items from a folder using scandir

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...

18th Jul 2015 09:34 PM

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...

18th Jul 2015 09:07 AM

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...

17th Jul 2015 09:10 PM

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...

17th Jul 2015 01:20 PM

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...

12th Jul 2015 07:36 PM

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...

12th Apr 2015 11:35 PM

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...

10th Apr 2015 08:07 AM

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...

2nd Apr 2015 08:37 AM

Forcing HTTPS with PHP

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Forcing HTTPS with PHP

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

8th Mar 2015 05:40 PM

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