PHP Tutorials
![Pretty Word Wrapper with MooTools or PHP]()
Pretty Word Wrapper with MooTools or PHP
Details, details, details. Details are what take a good site to the next level. Small details like link nudging (jQuery, MooTools), simple but stylish CSS enhancements, and opacity effects are the cheeky effects that give your website the edge over...
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Test Twitter Friendships with PHP
Another awesome functionality provided by Twitter is the ability to test friendships between two people. I mean testing if two people follow each other, not if one spams the world with crap tweets. Just as with every other Twitter API call, executing this test...
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Get the Intro: PHP Paragraph Regular Expression
Recently I was playing around with WordPress' wp_posts table. I wanted to grab the basic information about my posts (ID, title, content, slug) and build a quick summary list of them. One problem I ran into was creating a content "intro." Luckily a...
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Detect an AJAX Request in PHP
I like using the same PHP script for both AJAX and non-AJAX content requests. Using one script just makes everything easier because it's only one file to update/edit and it's one more cache-able request. One way to try detect an AJAX request (as opposed...
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Add Controls to the PHP Calendar
I showed you how to create a PHP calendar last week. The post was very popular so I wanted to follow it up with another post about how you can add controls to the calendar. After all, you don't want your...
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![Build a Calendar Using PHP, XHTML, and CSS]()
Build a Calendar Using PHP, XHTML, and CSS
One of the website features my customers love to provider their web users is an online dynamic calendar. An online calendar can be used for events, upcoming product specials, memos, and anything else you can think of. I've taken some time to completely...
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Create a Download Package Using MooTools Moousture
Zohaib Sibt-e-Hassan recently released a great mouse gestures library for MooTools called Moousture. Moousture allows you to trigger functionality by moving your mouse in specified custom patterns. Too illustrate Moousture's value, I've created an image download builder using Mooustures and PHP. The XHTML We provide...
![Retrieve Your Gmail Emails Using PHP and IMAP]()
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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Twitter Direct Messaging Remotely Using cURL
Twitter's direct messaging functionality is great. While simple tweeting communicates "just a clever quip," direct messaging communicates "listen here b*tch, this is important enough that you need to get this message NOW via text message." Twitter's API allows you direct message remotely so now...
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PHP’s Alternate Control Structure Syntax
If you've ever had the pleasure experience of digging through WordPress' code, you've probably run into PHP's alternate control structure syntax. An example of this can be seen in the following code: The same works with while, for, and foreach loops, as well as the switch...
