20th Sep 2014 • David Carr Running mysqldump with PHP Every project should have regular backups. Writing database tables to a file using PHP while possibl... Read more
12th Sep 2014 • David Carr Using closures and $this within a class with PHP Closures are really useful, especially for creating plugins when a full blown controller is not need... Read more
5th Aug 2014 • David Carr 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... Read more
23rd Jul 2014 • David Carr 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... Read more
11th Jun 2014 • David Carr HTML5 support for older browsers Sitepoint released a great post today HTML5 Forms: The Markup it explains the various inpu... Read more
7th Jun 2014 • David Carr HSAD Degree Show 2014 - Mini Review I attended the Hull School of Art and Design Degree Show last night. Very please to say it was a gre... Read more
7th May 2014 • David Carr 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... Read more
5th May 2014 • David Carr Premium 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... Read more
8th Apr 2014 • David Carr Macaw: Route closures and controllers Build the foundations of an application with the Macaw routing class to route requests to closures o... Read more
8th Apr 2014 • David Carr 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... Read more
25th Mar 2014 • David Carr 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... Read more
9th Mar 2014 • David Carr 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... Read more
6th Mar 2014 • David Carr 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. Read more
17th Feb 2014 • David Carr Latest videos from Simple MVC Framework TV Latest video tutorials covering the basics: sessions redirects, adding, editing and deleting records... Read more
11th Feb 2014 • David Carr 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... Read more
