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 WalshApril 15, 2015
fetch API
One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it, XMLHttpRequest, wasn't really made for what we've been using it for. We've done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better. Our effort to...
By David WalshMay 6, 2015
I’m an Impostor
This is the hardest thing I've ever had to write, much less admit to myself. I've written resignation letters from jobs I've loved, I've ended relationships, I've failed at a host of tasks, and let myself down in my life. All of those feelings were very...

By David WalshAugust 22, 2012
HTML5 download Attribute
I tend to get caught up on the JavaScript side of the HTML5 revolution, and can you blame me? HTML5 gives us awesome "big" stuff like WebSockets, Web Workers, History, Storage and little helpers like the Element classList collection. There are, however, smaller features in...
By David WalshOctober 27, 2009
Event Delegation with MooTools
Events play a huge role in JavaScript. I can't name one website I've created in the past two years that hasn't used JavaScript event handling on some level. Ask yourself: how often do I inject elements into the DOM and not add an...