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 Mark McDonnellMarch 30, 2015
Designing for Simplicity
Before we get started, it's worth me spending a brief moment introducing myself to you. My name is Mark (or @integralist if Twitter happens to be your communication tool of choice) and I currently work for BBC News in London England as a principal engineer/tech...
By David WalshMay 7, 2012
Detect DOM Node Insertions with JavaScript and CSS Animations
I work with an awesome cast of developers at Mozilla, and one of them in Daniel Buchner. Daniel's shared with me an awesome strategy for detecting when nodes have been injected into a parent node without using the deprecated DOM Events API.

By David WalshDecember 22, 2009
MooTools Overlay Plugin
Overlays have become a big part of modern websites; we can probably attribute that to the numerous lightboxes that use them. I've found a ton of overlay code snippets out there but none of them satisfy my taste in code. Many of them are...
By David WalshMarch 3, 2009
Animated AJAX Record Deletion Using jQuery
I'm a huge fan of WordPress' method of individual article deletion. You click the delete link, the menu item animates red, and the item disappears. Here's how to achieve that functionality with jQuery JavaScript. The PHP - Content & Header The following snippet goes at the...