Know Your Environment: PHP Server Module Reporter
Knowing your hosting environment's limitations before developing a website is a must. This practical script by David Walsh analyzes your host 's... more »
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Morphing Elements Using MooTools and CSS
Morphing an element between CSS classes is another great trick the MooTools javascript library enables you to do. Morphing isn’t the most practical... more »
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Using MooTools 1.2
I love movies and movie trivia so naturally I’m enamored with the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game. To bring that to the web, I felt that drag and... more »
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Load Your Static Content the Dynamic Way
Jeremy Martin discusses his strategy for loading remote static content into both a live server and localhost without difficulty.
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Facebook Sliders With Mootools and CSS
A slider allows the user to drag a slider across a given plain to set a value instead of the boring, tedious text box. I’ve created a very simple... more »
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NSFW Blocker Using MooTools and CSS
One of my guilty pleasures is scoping out the latest celebrity gossip. Unfortunately, these sites post occasionally post NSFW pictures which makes... more »
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Basic Ajax Requests Using MooTools 1.2
Ajax has become a huge part of the modern web and that wont change in the foreseeable future. MooTools has made Ajax so simple that a rookie developer... more »
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Build a Slick and Simple MooTools Accordion
In speaking with designers, I frequently hear how much they'd like to use an accordion on their site but they think it's either too time-consuming or... more »
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MooTools 1.2 OpenLinks Class
One of the tips I tell my customer is "whenever you create links to PDFs, Excel XLS', Word DOCs, or JPG/GIF/PNG images, make the link open in a new... more »
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PHP Woot Checker - Standard, Wine, and Shirt Woot
Needless to say, Woot is an interesting website. I've created a PHP script that returns the product's name, price, and image.
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Get Slick with MooTools Kwicks
When it came time for my employer to redo their website, I made it my goal to really jazz up the site with MooTools. Nothing too fancy and nothing too... more »
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April Fools! Change Your PHP Pages to ASP...Or Not
I don't know a lot of PHP developers that think very much of ASP. This, of course, sets the stage for a great April fools trick: we're going to change... more »
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Does Open Source Mean You Can't Bitch?
You didn't pay for it. You didn't have to steal it. You didn't need to search hard to find it. And you probably didn't contribute. It's there, free... more »
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CSS Image Filters in Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer provides for some really interesting CSS image effects. Of course, these effects are useless in any other browser (just how... more »
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Understanding Loose Typing in JavaScript
This article is a top level discussion of loose typing in JavaScript. Since there may be subtle differences in loose typing from language to language,... more »
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Building Your First jQuery Plugin
jQuery is an amazing javascript library that allows developers to do a lot with just a little code. If you've been thinking about trying to create a... more »
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MooTools Zebra Tables Class
Tabular data can oftentimes be boring, but it doesn't need to look that way! With a small MooTools class, I can make tabular data extremely easy to... more »
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Easy Multi Select Transfer with jQuery
Jeremy Martin demonstrates using jQuery to move options between two select boxes at the click of a link!
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PHP Email Validator - Email MX DNS Record Check
Validating an email address is one of the hardest feats on the web. A valid email can be marketing gold, but an invalid email address is dead weight.... more »
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DWRequest: MooTools 1.2 Ajax Listener & Message Display
Though MooTools 1.2 is in its second beta stage, its basic syntax and theory changes have been hashed out. The javascript library continues to improve... more »
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PHP Force Download - Keep Up With What's Going Down
A force-download script can give you more control over a file download than you would have providing a direct link. Using a force-download script,... more »
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Combine Your CSS Media Styles Into One File
I use a single CSS file to make editing easier — no switching buffers, and how often do you set specific styles for print and screen per a CSS class? ... more »
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Change Text Size On Click With Javascript
A lot of blogs and websites that have a wide range of users tend to have buttons or images that change the text size for easier readability. This can... more »
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PHP Security - Block Access to Include Files Using .htaccess
Even if my scripts are secure (meaning I use proper validation to make sure they've been called correctly), a user/hacker has no business calling an... more »
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Initiating PHP Sessions without Sacraficing Your Page Rank
To save you the trouble in the future please learn from my mistake and use the following code before starting any session variable.
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