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March 6th, 2010

Creating Unique Styles for WordPress Pages

In WordPress 2.8, there is one small but very useful feature, both for WP web developers, and for bloggers. This is an opportunity to change the appearance of any individual page or group of pages without the need to write either the functions/conditions on php or install plugins. All you need to do is simply add your desired style to your css file.

Posted in Featured, PHP, Server Side, Wordpress
By Nick Plekhanov

December 8th, 2009

PHP For Absolute Beginners Reviewed + Giveaway!

Recently, fellow web developer and friend, Jason Lengstorf wrote and published (by Apress Publishing) PHP for Absolute Beginners.

Jason was kind enough to send me a copy for my own reading and enjoyment. Now that I've finished, I'll be quickly reviewing the book and then giving away a free copy to one of our readers, courtesy of Jason Lengstorf and Apress Publishing! Read on to find out more about the book and how to win the giveaway!

Posted in Featured, PHP, Resources, Server Side
By Drew Douglass

December 4th, 2009

5 Must Bookmark Websites for Web Developers

We all have our favorite websites lined up in Google Reader, often, we don't get the time to go through as many of the sites and articles that we would like. However, there are some sites related to web development that are essential to keep up with. Today, we will go through 5 must bookmark websites for web developers.

Posted in Featured, Server Side
By Drew Douglass

November 2nd, 2009

How To Create Your First AJAX and PHP Contact Form

You've been to websites that use them, a nice little AJAX contact form. AJAX is a great way to submit data without a page refresh and is a great tool for certain elements of a website, such as a contact form. So how do we go about doing so? Today, we will take it step by step and build your first AJAX and PHP contact form. We'll be using jQuery and the popular email validation code found on google code (originally by AddedBytes) to help us out.

Posted in Downloads, Featured, PHP, Resources, Server Side
By Drew Douglass

October 26th, 2009

Get Your Recent Delicious Bookmarks Using PHP

Salutations and good evening. If any of you are users of the delicious bookmarking system, then you may enjoy a new post we have published on PHP-Tips.net. The post goes through the process of retreiving your lastest bookmarks with php. Visit the post today! Also, don't forget to submit your 404 page to our 3 theme giveaway contest for your chance to win!

Posted in Featured, PHP, Server Side
By Drew Douglass

September 10th, 2009

WordPress and HTML Theme Giveaway, Three Premium Themes Up For Grabs!

We are happy to launch a wonderful WordPress theme giveaway today, with three premium themes up for grabs! Our good friends at ThemeForest and Themeforest author, MasterGreed, are giving away two premium WordPress themes and a spectacular HTML admin skin for a total of 3 themes! Keep reading for information on how to enter!

Posted in Featured, Server Side, Wordpress
By Drew Douglass

September 3rd, 2009

Website Review: Web Hosting Secrets Revealed

Web hosting is a topic that every single web developer as had to deal with, probably more often than they would like to. We've all been frustrated by shady hosts, different hosting plans and layouts, and not to mention transferring domain names. There are sites out on the web however, who are dedicated to reviewing and providing information about different web hosts. Today, we're going to have a look at one of these websites, WebHostingSecretsRevealed, and I am going to give my honest review of what I think about the website.

Posted in Featured, Server Side
By Drew Douglass

August 17th, 2009

Creating a Relative Time Function

You've seen this sort of thing everywhere. It's the new "web 2.0 thing" to do (at least I think so). Instead of displaying the time formatted a certain way no matter how recent it was, you can have "posts about X minutes ago". It gives a new twist to how dates are normally formatted. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple PHP function that will accomplish this task for you.

Posted in Featured, PHP, Server Side
By Vasili

July 15th, 2009

5 More Quality Sites to Help You Become a PHP Rockstar

Not too long ago, we posted a popular article titled 5 quality sites to increase your knowledge of php. We received quite a positive response from this article and a few emails asking for more. That's all we needed to hear! Today we are back, and will be going over 5 more quality websites to help you become a php rockstar.

Posted in Featured, PHP, Server Side
By Drew Douglass

July 13th, 2009

Building your first blog from scratch with Frog CMS

If you've ever wanted to learn how to setup a website using the sweet FrogCMS, now is your chance. In a new post on the ThemeForest blog, I go through each process step by step to get you up and running with the frog. We also look at things such as using snippets and making custom breadcrumb navigation.

Posted in Featured, Server Side
By Drew Douglass