Posts in category: Tutorials

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

PHP read file from network drive

I’m working on a local hosted project where php needs to read a text file that’s stored...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

MySQL find and replace

There are times when you need to bulk update a database. Such as changing all references of domain.c...

David Carr

Tutorials | Bash

Creating an alias in terminal

I often run local sites from a projects folder that is stored in a dropbox folder the full path is l...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Quick way to get the number of days in a month with PHP

I’m building a php calendar and need to know the total number of days in a month in the past I...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Splitting an array into smaller arrays using array_chunk

There a times when you have an array and need to slit that array into smaller ones, I usually reach...

David Carr

Nova Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Using X-editable for inline editing

X-editable allows you to create editable elements on your page. Includes both popup and inline...

David Carr

Python | Tutorials

Run Python 3 as default when Python 2 is installed on a Mac

I’ve started to learn Python version 3 I had Python 2 already installed so when typing ‘...

David Carr

API | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Post to Slack using the incoming webhooks API

Slack is a great tool for teams I use it to communicate with the rest of my team, recently I’v...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Tools

How to use Github Hooks to send updates to your website

For anyone that uses Github know’s how useful it is, especially on the collaboration front. Al...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

PHP reverse date using strtotime

I use datepickers a lot in my projects the date’s default to the American YYYY-MM-DD format so...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Development

Installing php 7 on Mac

Setting up a mac to run php 7 instead of the default php 5.5.

David Carr

Javascript | CSS | Tutorials

Fixed header on scroll

A common web trend is to allow a static header stick to the top of the page when scrolling the page....

David Carr

Javascript | Tutorials

Autoscroll page with jQuery

There are times when it’s really useful for a webpage to scroll up and down automatically. For...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Development

Gitlab download private repository as tar.gz with php

Gitlab is a great alternative to Github or BitBucket, they offer free private and public repositorie...

David Carr

Bash | Tutorials

Bash loop through files and FTP them

I have a folder of csv files that need uploading to a server I don’t want to do it manually, B...

David Carr

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