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WordPress is awesome. Even more awesome is the fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! Here, we'll be learning how to create a featured and "latest posts" section - easily a 'must-have' for all good News/Magazine themes. We'll also go over using the 'Custom Fields' to their fullest potential.
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Want to learn how to make your own PHP and MySQL message board? This tutorial will show you pretty much some of the basics of a bog-standard message board.
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You can execute linux commands within a php script - all you have to do is put the command line in backticks (`).
Recently, I had to upload an archive to a server which did not allow ssh. For files that I need to transfer, I just package them up in a neat archive and transfer the archive file via scp. Not having ssh access however, I uploaded the archive file via ftp and created a script which extracts the file the file looks like the following:
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Previously on NETTUTS, Philo showed how you can use jQuery to add form validation to wordpress comments that works without any page reload. Another great way of utlizing jQuery to enhance user experience is to not just validate, but to submit your form entirely without a page refresh. In this tutorial I'll show you how easy it is to do just that -- submit a contact form that sends an email, without page refresh using jQuery! (The actual email is sent with a php script that processes in the background). Let's get started.
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"Search Engine Friendly URLs" or "User Friendly URLs" are a much better way of constructing your URLs for dynamic pages. In this article I will discuss some basic ways of doing this, with a little help from mod_rewrite.
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For most dynamic websites you will want to create "Search Engine Friendly" or "User Friendly" URLs, rather than using ugly and meaningless strings or IDs to reference your content. The way you interpret the URLs and use them to get your content is for another article and I won't go into that right now, what I want to talk about is how to turn your page titles into versions that can be used in your URL.
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Bots or Crawlers, are basically search engines crawling around the internet. This is how you get your pages on search engines (well, a major way). Bot Detection isn't something super vital, but if your CMS or website already has practically everything, then you need Bot Detection.
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This tutorial focuses on a thumbnail generation script. Rather than generating a smaller representation of the image, it cuts out a section of the photograph to create an obscure snapshot of the photo itself.
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A common feature found on many websites upon user registration are random passwords. This tutorial will walk you through a script that generates a random password to a given length.
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This article examines how PHP handles passing of variables internally, as well as how this relates to memory usage. This information is can be very useful for any professional PHP developer as it shows how passing variables by reference will normally result in more (not less) memory being used.