March 21, 2012
In my entire life, I think I can honestly say that the single most annoying task (and the one I am worst at), is maintaining an updated list of the addresses, phone numbers and birthdays of all of my friends, family and colleagues. Lately I’ve been looking for an alternative to using a computer application or a mobile app to maintain a contact database. I believe I found the perfect solution.
March 15, 2012
I would imagine there are countless small businesses that have the need to streamline the “booking” of clients with a digital solution. Hopefully, a solution that requires virtually no maintenance. In my opinion, a web based application is obviously the way to go. And of course when it comes to web-based apps, my favorite platform is always PHP and mySql.
February 19, 2012
pChart is a remarkably advanced graphing toolkit for PHP. It’s free under GPL licence, highly customisable, fully object oriented, and more than capable of handling any data you throw at it. Let me show you how to get started with using it for your web app.
July 24, 2011
Last time we showed you how to create a simple events listing using perhaps the most powerful feature of WordPress 3.0 – custom post types. After some requests to develop this further, today we’ll be creating a product review database to tie together everything we’ve learnt so far.
July 20, 2011
You know, there really is a lot to be said for Wordpress. While it’s true that most people will simply install a theme and only customize the Wordpress site to the extent allowed by the control panel, the truth is that with just a little bit of study and practice, you can easily tweak the PHP files to customize it for your needs.
July 6, 2011
There are a lot of blogs and websites on the Internet that have a subscription list, where you can sign up to receive a newsletter. Maybe you’ve even considered offering such a subscriber system on your own website, but it seems far too expensive and much too complicated to install on your own server. Enter PHPList, a free solution.
December 17, 2010
This is part 2 in a series I started last time about how to build a web crawler in PHP. Previously I introduced the Simple HTML DOM helper file, as well as showing you how incredibly simple it was to grab all the links from a webpage, a common task for search engines like Google. [...]
December 10, 2010
Web Crawlers, sometimes called scrapers, automatically scan the Internet attempting to glean context and meaning of the content they find. The web wouldn’t function without them. Crawlers are the backbone of search engines which, combined with clever algorithms, work out the relevance of your page to a given keyword set. The Google web crawler will enter [...]
September 9, 2010
Having your own blog sounds so simple, doesn’t it? Install WordPress on your hosting account, load up a cool theme, and then you’re golden right? Well, not exactly. Your WordPress profile doesn’t display a cool picture, so you’ve got to sign up for a Gravatar account. Your post doesn’t display comments where you want them [...]
April 20, 2010
While the Internet has evolved into a community where most of us converse and exchange ideas on articles we read within comment areas, forums and through email, there are also other cases where feedback is needed, and those methods aren’t good enough. Sometimes a webmaster simply needs to provide the ability for a website visitor [...]
