Posts under: Web Development

• Part 2. Connecting to a Microsoft Access Database Using PHP

  Now that we've successfully loaded ODBC, all that we have to do now create and establish a connection to our Microsoft Access Database and perform CRUD operations on it using PHP.

• Part 1. Connecting to a Microsoft Access Database Using PHP

  This is the first post (out of two) to our connecting to a Microsoft Access Database tutorials. We are going to be configuring PHP and Apache to load/enable ODBC extension to PDO. Ultimately, we will successfully connect, read, update, or delete records inside the Database using PHP

• Asynchronously upload file using PHP and HTML5

  Uploading files via AJAX has never been easy....well....not until now. With the help of HTML5 we can now upload such files in the background and report data such as progress to the client browser

• How to build a dialog using CSS and jQuery

  Dialogs are good in displaying critical data to the user such as an alert or some mini form that doesn't need a page load. In this post we are going to make a simple dialog using CSS and jQuery

• Cropping an image in PHP

  We will creating a simple class in PHP for cropping an images

• Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript

  JavaScript is very powerful client-side/front end scripting language for web browsers. We are going to be using OOP to create our own objects

• Creating a treeview Part 2. Reading real directories and implementing lazy loading

  In this post we are going to be carrying from the previous example in when we created and designed our treeview. Now we are going to be implementing some server side code using PHP (A bunch of scripts referenced using AJAX) and generating JSON results.

• Creating a treeview Part 1. Designing it

  We will be creating a treeview from scratch using jQuery (just adding a bit of functionality for expanding and collapsing), and a bit of CSS (in this post)

• Creating good looking Zend forms

  The Zend framework provides a great way to create forms by just using OOP. Each element is an object in the form object that's translated into its HTML element. If you're using this for the first time it can be quite confusing. Adding special attributes can result into errors, or can cause the form to not behave in a way intended. Styling forms in Zend can also be quite cumbersome too. In this post we are going to be using the Zend_Form object and handling styling the traditional away

• Setting up Virtual Hosts on your local Windows machine

  This post is about getting started of setting up virtual host (local domains) on your local machine. Its about learning how to configure your Apache server and taking advantage of it.

• Creating a content slider using jQuery

  In this post we are going to be building a content slider from scratch. We will also be creating custom animations in jQuery. There are great (in fact awesome) plugins you can use out there, but the knowledge you get from this tutorial is transferable.