Tag: PHP
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Build an early sign-up mailing list system
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. When you’ve got a great idea for a product its often hard to resist buying up the domain name for it, but what do you put there? A coming soon logo? A paragraph about what you’re making? How about allowing…
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An introduction to OOP
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. Object-orientated programming is a concept that is more likely to pop up when programming desktop applications rather than those for the web. But once you start using OOP you will wonder why you ever used procedural programming (that’s simply using…
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Generate a calendar with PHP
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. Calendars are useful for a wide variety of things, least of all planning and recording events that are going to happen in the future, and while it may not be obvious at first, there a are a number of challenges…
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WordPress: Load more posts on page scroll
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. Although I don’t visit archive pages very often, when I do I like it when I don’t have to trawl through pages and pages of 10 posts using tiny navigation buttons at the bottom of the page. A great way…
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Build an uploader for S3
S3 is Amazon’s “Simple Storage Service” for hosting content on the web. It allows developers to offload static content to their powerful content delivery network at low cost, to improve site performance. I’ve used S3 on a number of projects to host content, but one thing that only recently cropped up wad the notion of…
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Replacing the […] in WordPress
Some of you might be wondering what I mean by the […], well I am of course referring to the symbol generated by WordPress upon calling the function the_excerpt(). Now personally I really dislike the symbol which is generated as it often doesn’t fit with my design, and I always prefer to have an ellipse…
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Why you should be using PHP
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. I would like to introduce you to PHP. If you aren’t already using PHP on your site, you should be! PHP is an easy way of generating dynamic content and interacting with all sorts of things, from the server, to…