Archive for July, 2009

  • Wordpress page views hack

    Wordpress page views hack

    I created this pretty quick, and it is by far, not the prettiest thing out there. This uses an extra table in the MySQL table to keep track of pages that get viewed and how many times they are viewed. Here is what I did: Step 1 – Create a new table! Go to your [...]

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  • Nifty PHP/AJAX tricks

    Nifty PHP/AJAX tricks

    This brief tutorial covers usage of the exit function to help with AJAX scripts as well as how to return both a numeric and associative array via AJAX.

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  • Who’s Online Script Posted!

    Who’s Online Script Posted!

    I was messing around and realized there weren’t a lot of these around that were very simple to integrate into a website. It is VERY simple. I may go more advanced in the future, but right now it does the basics -> tells how many people are online.  Because it is simple, it [...]

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  • jQuery tutorial has been posted.

    jQuery tutorial has been posted.

    This is a simple tutorial, designed mostly just to introduce you to jQuery. If you have had some experience with Javascript, you should be able to pick this up very quickly after reading through the tutorial. I provide the structure and a couple examples. If anyone needs help with a script or [...]

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  • jQuery – Lesson 2

    jQuery – Lesson 2

    I have been working pretty intensely with jQuery and have learned a lot. It is a difficult language to work with because it is picky. But once you understand it, it is actually quite simple to manipulate. Today I want to cover parent/child/sibling relationships and how jQuery can be very effective here. I [...]

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  • PHP Tutorial Part 1 Complete

    PHP Tutorial Part 1 Complete

    I have completed Part 1 for the PHP tutorial. It can be found here. It covers the very basics. I will write a page on each of the basics in the future to go more in depth, and covering advanced topics. I am planning a part 2 to cover functions, arrays, [...]

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  • jQueryui drop down menu

    jQueryui drop down menu

    I was going to title this post: “jQuery, your friend and enemy” because I spent close to 2 hours today hating it and thinking of coding my own functions rather than trying to work with it. Eventually I figured out what I was doing and made it work beautifully with the custom ui template [...]

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  • PHP/Perl If trick using ? and :

    PHP/Perl If trick using ? and :

    Most experienced programmers already know this, but this is a quick trick that will save you a few lines of code if you have a really simple if-statement to display one thing or another. This works with both PHP and Perl and will help you cut down some coding time. For this post [...]

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  • PHP Tutorial

    PHP Tutorial

    I am going to be starting a PHP tutorial pretty soon.  It will be very basic and easy to read.  I will hopefully have part 1 up today in the Tutorial section.  I want to cover the basics, and eventually files, mysql, xml, sockets, and maybe some more advanced options.  We will see.  If there [...]

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