Weekend Links – PHP Techniques, Regular Expressions, AJAX PageRank, PHP Downloads, Color Mathematics

By David Walsh on November 17, 2007

PHP Techniques I Use All The Time

Article discussing PHP techniques that can save you time and keep your code fast and effective.

Regular expressions can be extremely cryptic, even to the best programmer. This article demystifies regular expressions and is PHP-focused.

Looking to grab your PageRank? Use this AJAX script.

If your website's main functionality is providing file downloads, you should use this script.

This article provides the mathematics formulas used to convert colors.

By David WalshMay 18, 2011
CSS Gradients
With CSS border-radius, I showed you how CSS can bridge the gap between design and development by adding rounded corners to elements. CSS gradients are another step in that direction. Now that CSS gradients are supported in Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome...
By David WalshJuly 28, 2011
Animating CSS3 Transforms with MooTools Fx
I recently posted an awesome (if I may say so myself) CSS3 / MooTools tutorials called Create a Photo Stack Effect with Pure CSS Animations or MooTools. The post presented two ways, a pure CSS method or MooTools-powered class, to duplicate Google+'s elegant photo stack...

By David WalshNovember 2, 2012
CSS Transforms
CSS has become more and more powerful over the past few years and CSS transforms are a prime example. CSS transforms allow for sophisticated, powerful transformations of HTML elements. One or more transformations can be applied to a given element and transforms can even be animated...
By David WalshOctober 29, 2008
Element Position Swapping Using MooTools 1.2
We all know that MooTools 1.2 can do some pretty awesome animations. What if we want to quickly make two element swap positions without a lot of fuss? Now you can by implementing a MooTools swap() method. MooTools 1.2 Implementation MooTools 1.2 Usage To call the swap...