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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

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

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

June 17th, 2009

Introducing the Ultimate Gallery Management System!

If you've been following me on twitter, you may know that I have been working on a big project for ThemeForest recently. Today, I am proud to announce that months of hard work have paid off as the component has officially launched with version 1.1 today! I'd like to show off the system and discuss exactly what it does, so you can have a better idea.

Posted in Featured, PHP, Server Side
By Drew Douglass

June 3rd, 2009

How To Use Custom ini Files With PHP

The special 'config' file is a very important file at the heart of almost every web/software application. The config file typically holds information that will be used over and over again, such as database info. There are plenty of ways you can go about creating a config file. Many just create a new file with some defined constants and include the file. Others use a database or XML file for config storage. Today, we will have a look at a simple example of using a custom ini file to set our preferences.

Posted in Featured, PHP, Server Side
By Drew Douglass

May 9th, 2009

Remove an Item From an Array By Value

I was working on my CMS a couple days ago when I was trying to remove an item from an array by value. I tried to find a function already built into PHP but couldn't. I developed this little function to do this simple task for me.

Posted in Featured, PHP, Server Side
By Vasili

May 3rd, 2009

How to Validate Age With PHP

I was recently browsing the analytic statistics and information for Dev-Tips when I noticed that a common search was appearing on the site. The search terms were how to validate age with php. I immediately saw this as an opportunity to provide an answer to a very simple php question, as it is quite simple to validate an age with php. Let's have a quick look and write a script that will allow us to validate that a user is a certain age with php.

Posted in Featured, PHP, Server Side
By Drew Douglass