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…
Code Igniter is a PHP web framework which assists in creating complex websites. Unlike other web frameworks, Code Igniter doesn’t force you to use all of it’s components. You select and load them as you require. The only feature you have to use is the URL structuring (/controller/method/) which is very helpful anyway.
Code Igniter follows the Model,…
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…
As we all know jQuery is a very small language. Not only is the file size of the jQuery library small, but the amount of code you need to write to achieve something is also very small. Because of this it is sometimes more efficient to write and test jQuery code in the browser than in a local file. To…
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…
This is part 1 of a 2 part series on making a Todo List with PHP and enhancing it with jQuery’s AJAX
In this two part series I’m going to show you how to make a simple to-do list in PHP, and then enhance it using jQuery’s AJAX and manipulation capabilities. This won’t follow any proper coding principles, but will give…
“Whats a good jQuery menu?” is a question I hear quite frequently on blogs and forums. As jQuery is such a simple language to learn, most people code their own for their own sites. I’ve compiled a list of 3 menu plugins, and and 5 ‘custom’ solutions that people have setup.
http://p.sohei.org/jquery-plugins/menu/
Latest release: Jan 07
This plugin was constructed to emulate a…
I recently erased Fedora 9 from my hard drive, and installed Linux Mint. Im enjoying it so far but it didn’t come with a webserver. Heres a little tutorial on how to install XAMPP and get it up and running.
First of all, download XAMPP from sourceforge. As of writing this, the latest version is 1.6.7 so ill be referencing to that…
Woo! Another screencast. In this one i show you how to include your twitter stream into your blog or website, and then format it using jQuery so your tweets have an alternating background colour.
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…
Heyo. This is going to be the first of 4 tutorials on making a jQuery powered AJAX login system with a PHP backend. The series of tutorials will go like so.
Ok then. So we will have a forum with…
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…
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So you know the very basics of jQuery, and multiple ways to select the HTML element that you want to manipulate. In this tutorial i’ll show you how to manipulate that element after you have selected it; changing the contents, changing the HTML and…
In this tutorial i’ll go over some of the frequently used Selectors and show you how to use them. Most of jQuery’s manipulations revolve around selectors, so it’s a vital skill to know.
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So.. we want to select the first td. We do this by first selecting all the td tags and then use :first to select the first td. Using jQuery’s great…
Heres a quick tutorial on how to stream internet radio, in particular shoutcast, through VLC media player. Most people stream through Windows Media Player or Winamp, but if you like Open Source applications like me, heres how you do it.
File -> Open Network Stream
Select the HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS box and in the form, enter the URL of the shoutcast server, with the port. In…
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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