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Build an early sign-up mailing list system
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 visitors to sign-up to hear updates when the products becomes public? The last point is the most useful because not only does it let you keep track of early interest,...
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An introduction to OOP
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 a program that calls a load of functions/procedures), well maybe not completely - OOP has its place on the web, and in this tutorial we will explore a practical usage...
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Generate a calendar with PHP
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 in creating a dynamic calendar with PHP. In this tutorial I will show you the basics of what you need to get started. See an example of what we will...
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WordPress: Load more posts on page scroll
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 to prevent this annoyance for your users is to use AJAX to dynamically append posts to the end of your archive list. To do this in WordPress we need to...
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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 allowing users to upload their own content to the service from within any given site....
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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 - ... followed by a link to continue reading - but how on earth could...
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Why you should be using PHP
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 the user, right back to databases. In past tutorials I've used PHP without first explaining why, in this article I'll explain why it's really great. It's important to note that...