David Walsh Tutorials
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Retrieve Your Gmail Emails Using PHP and IMAP
Grabbing emails from your Gmail account using PHP is probably easier than you think. Armed with PHP and its IMAP extension, you can retrieve emails from your Gmail account in no time! Just for fun, I'll be using the MooTools Fx.Accordion plugin...
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iPhone Hath Cometh
If you follow me on Twitter or talk to me my IRC channel (#davidwalshblog on FreeNode), you know that I've been anticipating my birthday because BDay was iDay -- iPhone day, that is. My birthday has come and gone and I now possess...
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YouTube, FFMPEG, and MP3 Conversion
Yesterday I published a quick post about a basic MPEG -> FLV video conversion method using FFMPEG. Today I want to share another great usage of FFMPEG: stripping a video's audio and creating an MP3. As an added bonus, I'll be ripping...
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Convert Video Formats Using FFMPEG
Getting a video into the format you like can be important when providing media to your users on the web. Unfortunately your customer or video source may not give you media in the desired format. No problem: use the FFMPEG library to...
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Disallow Robots Using Robots.txt
I develop customer websites on a publicly accessible web server so that my customers may check the progress of their website at any given time. I could use .htaccess to require username and password for the site but then I'm constantly needing to remind...
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Reduce PNG Graphic Size Using PNGCRUSH
Now that I'm knee-deep in MacBook I love working with command line applications. There's a certain beauty in the simplicity of using the console instead of a nice GUI. One task I use the console for often is reducing the size of PNG files...
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7 MooTools Plugins You Should Use on Every Website
The advantage of using unobtrusive JavaScript is that you can vastly improve the user experience for website visitors using just a snippet of code. And since the MooTools JavaScript framework's community is known for creating unique, quality plugins, I've compiled a list of plugins you...
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David Walsh on the Faceoff Show Podcast
I have the honor of being on Mark Sanborn and Jade Robbin's awesome podcast: The Faceoff Show. The guys grilled me about my blog, the MooTools JavaScript framework, and a variety of other projects. It was great fun and...
![Highlighter: A MooTools Search & Highlight Plugin]()
Highlighter: A MooTools Search & Highlight Plugin
Searching within the page is a major browser functionality, but what if we could code a search box in JavaScript that would do the same thing? I set out to do that using MooTools and ended up with a pretty decent solution. The MooTools JavaScript Class The...
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MooTools, Framework Compatibility, and Dollar $afe Mode
MooTools 1.2.3 was released on June 19, 2009. With this release, MooTools implemented Dollar Safe Mode. Essentially, MooTools no longer requires the $ function for its own purposes. Valerio Proietti writes about Dollar Safe Mode on the MooTools blog but I'll give...
