Cross site request forgery (CSRF) is where a malicious website will attempt to issue actions on another website without the user’s knowledge of it occuring.
Hypothetical Situation: You had just done some online banking and had ticked the ‘Remember me’ option when you logged in. The banking website easily allows you to transfer money to other people. While browsing the malicious…
In this tutorial we will create a PHP URL router. The developer using the router will be able to define these routes with regular expressions, these will then map to a file, class and method which will be called – very similar to Django’s routing. By using regular expressions to define our URLs we get maximum customizability. /class/method/ based URL routing…
A Query7 reader requested this tutorial to be written. It’s aimed to be a general guide to build ’something’ using Code Igniter. It uses Models, Views, Controllers, Helpers and Libraries and will give you a good idea how Code Igniter works as a whole. I will be posting more advanced Code Igniter tutorials in the future.
Install and do some basic configuration…
Google translate is used by millions of people every day. Combine this with the easy reporting of language errors/mistakes makes it one of the most comprehensive and accurate online translators. Google provides an easy to use API to access their large language database, we’ll be using that today.
It will consist of two textareas, two dropdowns and one button. It will…
Source Control is an essential part of the development system that any and every programmer needs to utilize. Simply put it is a repository of source code that keeps track of revisions and is a system that allows multiple programmers to work on one copy of code without issues. There are numerous version control systems (VCS) out there including Subversion,…
RSS Feed consumption has always been a stick point in PHP. Simple Pie is a library that works with both PHP4 and PHP5 that enables you to easily parse and save RSS feeds. Today I’ll show you some common uses of Simple Pie and explain how it runs.
Simple Pie requires:
As well as a few other PHP modules…
In this tutorial we are going to make a PHP script that archives your website into a .tar file, then automatically moves it to an external FTP server for safe keeping. We can then setup a cron for this script which will execute it automatically every day/week/month , however frequent you want it. This will only work on Linux servers…
We traditionally think that jQuery’s selector engine can only select elements/information off of the document that we are working on. And AJAX’s only use is to process web forms without the page needing to reload. While both of these are common uses, they are not the only uses. In this tutorial I’m going to show you a not-so-mainstream use of…
This is part 2 of a 2 part series on making a Todo List with PHP and enhancing it with jQuery’s AJAX
In part 1 of the tutorial, we covered the PHP and MySQL side of things. In this part we will be enhancing it with jQuery’s AJAX and manipulation functionality. The to-do list will degrade fine – if the user…
PHP is a very vast language. It’s hard to say that you’ve mastered it. For example, do you know how to crop an image using GD and process web requests with XML-RPC off the top of your head? You may know one of them, but probably not both. That being said, there are a lot of resources out there that…
We all know that jQuery is great, that you can do things in 2-3 lines in jQuery that you can in 20 lines of Javascript, but is your jQuery code starting to get a bit bulky? Could you do things better?. I’m going to show you how to reduce a 20-25 line jQuery script into 3 lines by making the…
Heres Part 2 of the jQuery AJAX login tutorial. If you haven’t already, i suggest you read part 1 located here.
We are going to start writing the PHP code to process the form. This is fairly basic stuff, using $_POST to get the values from the form, then checking them against pre-assigned values, if they match, then echo approved, if they…
This post is in reference to the jquery drop down menu tutorial .
Someone emailed me asking if the menu could truely slide in , vertically, not how it is now with the slide on a slight angle ( using jquery’s show / hide ). Its very easy to alter the existing code to make it truely slide.
Instead of using jQuery’s show and hide functions, we…
This video tutorial shows how to make a basic slide in/drop down menu using jQuery. The menu itself stylishly slides in and has transparencies so you can view data behind it.
Sorry for the low sound, i was trying something different with my microphone.
Im a big Fan of PHP and one day i wanted to make a desktop application that could pull down posts and private messages from one of my forums. I didn’t want to learn a whole new language, just code the small application so i dismissed C, and looked at Python. I saw there was PyGTK, saw i wondered if…
There are alot of remotely hosted systems out nowadays, Zetaboards, SMF for Free and the series of IPB 1.3.1s. If you want to edit the looks of your board you need to use Javascript since you can’t access the source PHP files. You can work your way around using getElementById and the likes, or you can use jQuery. Here are…
Heres a quick video tutorial i made, you’ll learn the basics of jQuery such as selecting elements as well as usage of the slide effect. Feel free to ask any questions
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