Creating a PHP5 Framework - Part 1
in PHP by Michael PeacockWith websites becoming more and more dynamic and interactive, developers often look to frameworks to help build websites and web apps rapidly. While there are a number of great frameworks available, a custom framework gives you the ability to easily customize the framework as you need, and to build with it even quicker - as you would already know the ins and outs of it before working with it. In this series of tutorials, we are going to build our very own PHP5 Development Framework! Let’s start with planning our framework and put the basic structure into place.
Build An AJAX Powered Shopping Cart
in Javascript / AJAX, PHP by James LaoThe NETTUTS community asked for it. So here you are! One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. In this tutorial, we’re going to make an AJAX powered shopping cart using PHP, jQuery, and a few nifty plugins.
Evening Tip: Insert Flash The Correct Way
in Javascript / AJAX, PHP by Connor ZwickYou create your site the right way. You follow all of the rules, so that in the end, you can proudly have a link to w3’s validator, confirming your site’s perfection. There’s just one problem: if you embed any flash into your page, you’ll get several errors. That’s because the embed tag is not a valid tag. You need to insert your flash the correct way!
How To Use Any Font You Wish With FLIR
in Javascript / AJAX, PHP by James LaoLast week, Philo showed you how to implement sIFR3. This time, I’m going to show you how to implement Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR), an alternative to sIFR that does not require Flash.
Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress
in PHP, Working with CMS's by Dan HarperWordPress is awesome. Even more awesome is the fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! Here, we’ll be learning how to create a featured and “latest posts” section - easily a ‘must-have’ for all good News/Magazine themes. We’ll also go over using the ‘Custom Fields’ to their fullest potential. Continue Reading
Learn PHP from Scratch: A Training Regimen
in PHP by Jeffrey WayHolding the title of “number one”, PHP is the most popular language among developers. Even still, many prefer different languages. Yours truly, for example, is most comfortable when working in the ASP.NET environment. However, because of the enormous success of Wordpress, more and more developers have decided to expand their horizons and learn yet another language.
Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP
in Javascript / AJAX, PHP by Jonathan RudenbergWhen you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. In this tutorial we’ll create a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation.
