Articles by Darren Hedlund
A variable, is something which can hold a dynamic value. A variable is distinguished from other things because it starts with a dollar sign. For example, "$name" could be a variable which would most likely hold the name of something, someone, or someplace.
Tuesday, 31st January 2006
How to make your own PHP template script
Many people ask how do you create a template system in PHP. It is true their are many different ways, but this will hopefully show you the basic understanding of this type of method.
Tuesday, 10th January 2006
How to make a Hit Counter with PHP
In this lesson we are going to make a very simple hitcounter in PHP.A hitcounter is a script, that counts the number of visitors to your site.
Saturday, 24th December 2005
Writing Classes in Javascript
Wrtting classes in Javascript doesn't give full functionality of an object oriented language, but it at least gives data hiding and encapsulation which are very useful specially when javascript is not a strongly typed language.
Wednesday, 7th December 2005
How to Make a Drop Down Template Theme Selector with PHP
This tutorial will help teach you how to make your site have the option to allow the users to choose the look and feel of the site using PHP, and MySQL wrapped around a HTML template.
Wednesday, 7th December 2005
Hightlight or Censor Words in PHP
This tutorial will show you how to load a flat file and parse text to highlight or even censor out a word.
Monday, 28th November 2005
Generate Random Quotes with PHP
The following will show you how to generate simple random quotes using PHP.
Monday, 28th November 2005
Creating a tree menu with JavaScript
This tutorial will show you the basics of using some simple JavaScripting methods to create a drop down menuing system for your site.
Thursday, 24th November 2005
Creating Styled Submit Buttons
Submit buttons are gray, right? Well not necessarily. Of course you can just replace the standard form button with an image, but using CSS will give you a nice effect without the need to create and load an image, however small.
Wednesday, 23rd November 2005
Displaying Load Time with PHP
When developing PHP-driven websites its often very useful to know how long your pages took to process. This not only gives you some idea of the efficiency of your websites and of the server running them, but may help you diagnose problems, benchmark code corrections/additions, etc.
Wednesday, 23rd November 2005
Creating an Image Gallery with PHP
This tutorial will show you how to make a basic image gallery using PHP.
Monday, 21st November 2005
Creating a PHP Looping Statement
Creating a PHP loop to go through a certain part of code to gather more information than just a single part of data is essential to many programmers. These methods are used for searching iside a database, counting through information, and other useful functions. Here are some simple ways that you can create a while lopp in PHP.
Monday, 21st November 2005
Creating a PHP Form
Extracting form variables when programming in Perl is a real task. The variables can be extracted fairly painlessly using the CGI.pm modules, but there is a lot of work going on under the hood. In PHP form variables just spring to life. If a form has an input statement.
Monday, 21st November 2005
Creating a Drop Down Selection with an Array
In this section we will show you the basics of making and creating a simple drop down selection array.
Thursday, 10th November 2005
Create and Use a User Input Form
So how do you access the information you submitted via HTML in the script (script.php)? Well amazingly, there are several ways to get the information. It's up to you to decide which method best suites you, and then go with that.
Monday, 7th November 2005
