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Storing Passwords with PHP
Storing passwords the correct way is vital to a secure web application. Storing them incorrectly can damage your credibility very quickly. Let's jump in with Blowfish with PHP's crypt function.
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Starting with Node and Web Sockets
Real time transfers of data is something that users have started to come to expect online. Whether this be in chat or other. Here we explore node and web sockets for real time communication.
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Build It: Download Tracker
In our second build-it we look at how to develop a simple download tracker using PHP, with scope for some advanced features.
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Animation with HTML5 Canvas
An introduction to how to not just animate with the canvas, but also move something around the canvas with your arrow keys.
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The Skinny on BackboneJS
Ben Howdle takes a step back and begins a steady simple introduction to BackboneJS. Unravelling many of its paradoxes deep within.
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More Beginner HTML5 Canvas
We touched on a lot of the basic drawing tools with the earlier article, now let's look at images and a mini build-it to round things off.
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Beginner's Guide to HTML5 Canvas
Interactive HTML5 canvases are popping up everywhere, whether that be in a game or a sketching application. Canvas is very powerful and here's a brief introduction.
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How to Implement Pagination
Implementing pagination can sometimes be a pain, mostly down to being confused by the logic required to work out total pages etc, it's all explained within.
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Getting Started with LocalStorage
Cookies have small size limitations, here we guide you through how to use local storage. A key value storage system that works in all modern browsers.
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MySQL Joins
Joins allow you to select data from multiple tables by taking advantage of relationships. They can be complex, but are very effective.
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Introduction to SQL
A brief, simple guide to getting started with a MySQL database. Creating the database, tables and running some simple queries!
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jQuery Autocomplete Dropdown
Google and Facebook both suggest when you try to search, or even tag. Here we show you how to create your own basic equivalent including full keyboard support.
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Introduction to CodeIgniter
A very steady and simple introduction to the CodeIgniter framework using controllers, views and models. Also touching on how to use htaccess to get pretty URLs.
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Create a Custom Build Tool
A brief guide on how to build your own tool that will allow users to select modules/sections to build into a final script, like on Animate.css.
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Add Author Image in Google Search
Super simple tutorial showing how easy it is for you to add a meaningful author image alongside your search results in Google.
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Introduction to .htaccess
htaccess is often avoided by many people because they look at it as a dark art, hopefully we can shed some light on the basics.
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Part 2: Build a Rating System
Part 2 ties off the rating system with a focus on the backend code and database structure to handle all of the ratings and response to the front end.
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Part 1: Build a Rating System
Part 1 introduces the frontend part of the rating system, using some HTML and CSS created by Harry Roberts, and combining it with jQuery to give a slick user interface that could be used for a rating system.
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PHP Tips and Tricks
Some tips and tricks with PHP ranging from ternary operators, autoloading classes all the way to relative time calculations.
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Getting Started with JSON
Jason who? Jason Bourne? No, JSON. JavaScript Object Notation's the name, a flexible data exchange format's the game.
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Build It: URL Shortener
In our new series of 'Build It' articles we create a micro-project from start to finish, and offer a full video tutorial and complete source code for download at the end.
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Introduction to Regular Expressions
Regular expressions are powerful, and used everywhere. Here we try to break down things, and build it all back up to a challenge at the end. Can you solve it?
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'MySQLi' for Beginners
Nearly every site that you visit nowadays has some sort of database storage in place, many sites opt to use MySQL databases when using PHP. But are you interacting with your databases correctly?
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oAuth Authentication with Instagram
oAuth is a widely used authentication method when using APIs, it removes the requirement for the site to request passwords etc. Here we talk about the Instagram API to teach oAuth theory.
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cURL Requests with PHP
cURL is a very helpful tool and is used extensively when dealing with APIs and oAuth. A simple introduction to GET and POST requests over HTTP.
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Introducing PHP Classes
Object oriented programming is very powerful and is definitely something that should be used to keep maintainable code. Explore inheritance, privacy, magic methods and more inside
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PHP and jQuery Contact Form
A simple contact form that sends out an email to an email address of your choice. At the end showing how you can make it post dynamically with jQuery's $.post() function.
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Uploading Files with PHP
You can't go on any site nowadays without seeing an option to upload an image. All of the big sites are doing it. Here we'll cover the basic upload process using PHP limiting by filetype and filesize.
