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Author Archives: Steve
Lightweight jQuery Accordion
There are many, many jQuery accordions floating around on the internet – Many of them are too complicated for a simple task, options, styles and different effects. I was recently challenged to make a very simple jQuery accordion with the … Continue reading
PHP – Get page links (using the DOMDocument)
PHP has a very useful library – The DOM Document. Using this you’ll be able to get the source code of a page and go through each element of the HTML filtering out what you need and don’t need, If … Continue reading
PHP – Posting to Twitter (using OAuth)
Twitter has now moved over to OAuth (no longer supporting Basic Auth) – You’re now forced to use this when wanting to post/retrieve information using a Twitter account and Twitter Application. Since searching around I haven’t found any good examples … Continue reading
PHP – Simple Captcha Class
Developing your own Captcha verifications can be quite simple with PHP and the GD library. I’ve made a very basic captcha class below that should give you a head start when protecting your web pages from automated bots. Like I … Continue reading
PHP – cURL Example Class
cURL is a very powerful command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. curl supports SSL … Continue reading
PHP – FTP Class Example
One of the more useful extensions for PHP is the FTP modules. There are many uses for this, mainly uploading and downloading files to and from a remote server – Although could be used to backup websites, restore backups, file … Continue reading
PHP – Example Practical use for Similar Text
One of the more neat features of PHP is these functions; the ones that can analyse strings for you, taking away all of the hard work. While they’re neat to use, they may not always have a practical use in a project. … Continue reading
PHP – Checking POST and GET Fields
This is another very basic piece of code that will probably come in handy when manually checking form fields for data and used to determine if there is actually any data in the field. Normally you would have a block … Continue reading