It’s been a long time since I last wrote a tutorial, all I can do is apologise for the long gap and tell you that it was mostly due to lack of time and, to be frank, lack of the motivation to write. Recently though I have found myself with a renewed vigour and I will be posting more tutorials […]
Read moreThis third part of explaining how to use PHP & MySQLi was inspired by ‘abr4xas’ who commented on part 2 of this tutorial. He/she asked how they would go about safely inserting data from the $_POST superglobal into one of their MySQLi queries. So here is how to do exactly that. Prepared Statements One of the best ways to use […]
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As promised here is the second part of building our Shopping List Application with the excellent AngularJS the JavaScript MVW framework. In this final part we are going to look at how to extend our application so that it can receive data (via JSON) from a REST based application to populate our shopping list with items. This is as opposed […]
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Today I thought I’d give you one of my famous developers tips. All right, so they aren’t famous. Yet! I’m sure, if you are a PHP developer, you have created a loop many a time. They are useful for all sorts of things, including creating lists. Let’s take a common one. Creating a comma separated list. Does this look familiar? […]
Read moreToday we are going to look at how to write a WordPress plugin using Object Oriented Programming techniques. What Is OOP? Writing a plugin using OOP is basically writing your plugin as a PHP class. This can sound a little daunting at first because of the different way you have to handle functions to actions/filters. Here I’m hopefully going to […]
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I recently came across a small quirk when using rewind_posts(). Hopefully this small tip will save you the same confusion I suffered.
Read moreThis may seem completely pointless, but I needed to do this for a client & it confused me for a while.
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While I’ve got a few minutes spare here is a little snippet of code that picks a random quote that changes every day from an array you provide.
Read moreI originally wrote a post about 2 year ago explaining how to store multiple values in a single MySQL row. Now I have more experience with PHP/MySQL I have decided to revisit this topic to clear up any confusion about the method that should be used.
Read moreIt’s always useful to run speed tests on your scripts to check how fast they are running, and so that you can then measure any improvements when you are optimizing scripts. Here is how I do it, plus a few tips.
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