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Posts in the "Tutorials" Category

• PHP Pagination with Mysql

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  So you have a Mysql table you want to pull data from, but you don’t want to flood the page with everything in the table right! So you need some pagination to seperate all the content in the table into easy to open pages. So let’s say this is your mysql query: $sql = mysql_query("SELECT [...]

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• PHP Upload and Resize Image

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  Many times when you upload a image somewhere you want to resize it to different dimensions based off of a maximum width or height. Here is a simple script that does this for you, using a HTML form and a PHP script. We start with the PHP script that will run if our $_GET['do'] is [...]

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• PHP Favicon Generator Script

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  I decided to make a free easy to use favicon generating script that uses PHP. The script has a few features and requirements when uploading your image to be converted to a favicon. First the script checks for a few things such as file type, file size, and the specified dimensions. You can create a [...]

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• PHP Ordinalize Numbers – Add Suffix

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  Here is a very simple function to use to ordinalize numbers in PHP. This adds the place value suffix to numbers. So you can turn numbers like 1, 2, 3 into 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Here is the code: function ordinalize($int){ if(in_array(($int % 100),range(11,13))){ return $int . "th"; } else { switch(($int % 10)){ case 1: [...]

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• Mysql Rows in HTML Option Tag

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  Let’s say you want to have a simple HTML <select> form as a drop down for rows in a Mysql table. This could be for things like categories, pages, games, anything you want to have in a drop down to navigate to another page or submit a form. What ever the case is, I’m going [...]

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• CSS Drop-Down Menu

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  Drop down menus are very useful for navigation on websites and for holding many links to pages on your site without taking up much space on your web pages. Using just CSS and Javascript we can make a nice simple drop down menu you can put on your web page. To do this we’ll have [...]

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• PHP Global Variables with Functions

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  Here we’re going to take a look at variables inside and outside of PHP functions. It is very easy to make one error with a function and have it return the wrong value. We’re going to make a simple function named “func1” which we’ll tweak a bit to show how variables are used inside and [...]

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• Making a CSS Linkbar with Photoshop

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  In this post I am going to show you how to make a cool link bar for your website with Photoshop. Link bars are very important in websites as they provide a clear and easy way for viewers to reach other pages on your site. Basically we’ll make a background image which will be set [...]

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• PHP Search a Mysql Database

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  Nearly every website has some kind of search feature that allows you to quickly find the specific things you are looking for. This can be done a number of ways depending on the language and desired features, but I am going to show you how to search a Mysql database using PHP and a simple [...]

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• PHP Timestamps time()

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  One of the most common ways to capture the current time in PHP scripting is by using the time() function. This returns the current timestamp which is the number of seconds after a certain date and time in the past. You can use this when entering a mysql query to note the current time of [...]

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