You’ve just opened an account with Zazzle. You’ve created a few products, uploaded a spiffy header, added a few product lines and wrote a nice little paragraph welcoming people to your gallery… but you yearn for something more, something different! This tutorial gives a few little hints and tips on how you can jazz up [...]
Update: 08/11/2009 The plugin has now been updated to add the new products available on Zazzle such as binders & letterheads. Also a few bugs have been fixed. So a few members of Zazzle.com asked me to make a plugin for WordPress to make it easier to install the Zazzle Store Builder into WordPress. Usually [...]
So that website Confused.com has a new feature that they have coined the highlighter, very original. It is quite impressive though. It allows you to highlight all the rows that match a certain criteria. Seeing as confused.com is a insurance comparison website it would allow you to highlight the insurers that will give you no [...]
I kinda touched on Type Casting in the second PHP tip about is_numeric(). The basic idea is that you can force a variable’s value to another type. For instance, changing a string to an integer.
You’ve probably seen them before, generally done by imagehosters. Yep, that’s them. The little thumbnails with the resolution & file size written in them. Well I’m going to show you how to make them using ImageMagick & PHP. If you don’t have ImageMagick you can find out how to install it in my previous tutorial [...]
This is probably one of my favorite PHP features. It can be a little complicated to get used to at first, but it really saves a lot of time & can be extremely useful.
The second in my series of PHP tips is to do with the extremely handy is_numeric(). When allowing user input it’s extremely important to check the input for attacks. The most common piece of information handed to MySQL is an ID, but novice coders can get confused with how to check the input. The main [...]
This is the first in a series of posts I’m doing on small tips which help when coding with PHP. The first is a one most devs probably know, but novice or new coders may not know and probably should.
A few days ago, before the hacking malarky, I needed a script that I could run via Cron to delete the contents of a folder that were older than a week from a certain day. For example; Let’s say it’s Saturday, I want the script to delete all files older than Saturday… Get what I [...]
It's late here in the UK but it's the 30th so a big Happy Birthday to @Y_Strahovski loads of hugs 'n kisses, hope you have a great day. - 10 hours ago
Wow! Jeffster are awesome and @Y_Strahovski has one hell of a throwing arm, lol. http://yfrog.us/n8b8xz (via @kentuckysocal) - 6 days ago
@AshBob87 No worries. Glad I could help out. ;) - 6 days ago
@AshBob87 No problem. I just found it a few seconds ago. Was sitting in my bookmarks all along. *facepalm* http://bit.ly/cI9cQS - 6 days ago
@AshBob87 Thanks. ;) I can't find the tutorial I followed anymore. :( - 6 days ago
