AJAX is all over the internet today, and though completely unnecessary, a website with it can function much more quickly. Data can be transferred to and from users efficiently, but a major drawback is the extra code needed and some security issues inherent. Nevertheless, for certain applications, AJAX is great to know and [...]

Regular expressions seem rather complex, even like a foreign language to beginning programmers. The mixture of symbols and characters can bring you to tears if you have a limited understanding, but with the knowledge of the significance of each symbol and construct, regular expressions can bring you from irregularity to peaceful contention bliss.

When you visit a site, their usual advertisers might catch your eye once or twice, but after that, you forget it’s there. Designing a banner ad that automatically updates with information such as current sales or latest blog posts is a great way to get repeat clicks and return visitors. In this article, [...]

As CSS expands, so does web design as a whole, but where it still lacks (and most likely will always lack) is in the area of fonts. Depending on the user’s home computer and the actions he/she has taken on it, there are different fonts inherently available. In this article, however, we will talk about bypassing the user’s system and use the fonts you would like, via PHP and the GD library.

We’ve seen the graphics PHP can create for you, but how extensive is PHP’s ability to edit preexisiting images? In this article, I will explore some common functions that image editing software provides, but I’ll only use PHP.  We’ll focus mainly on cropping, resizing, flipping, and adding some effects to photos.

I use this technique to show the most popular posts on our homepage, and although this isn’t a core feature in Wordpress, it’s not all that hard to do. All it takes is a little PHP and a single edit to one of your Wordpress template files.

Though not necessary, running PHP on your home machine can make development much quicker and easier. Without affecting the actual website, you can edit files and execute them locally, uploading all to the server when finished. This article will cover the installation of Apache and configuration of PHP on your local Windows machine.

RSS Feeds are a great way to keep up with the latest news and blog sites, but we can also use them to bring data into our PHP applications. In this article, I will show you how to load any RSS feed into variables that you can manage in PHP.

Including up-to-date radar images on your website is easier than you might think. In this article, I am going to share where you can get radar images for free for US radar sites and even share some sample code that will fetch the closest radar site by lat/lon and display it on your website.

Pie chart, circle graph, call it what you want, but these charts are loved by descriptive statisticians across the world for their instant appeal to the viewer’s eyes and inferential mind.  Though descriptive statistics can be deceiving, pie charts, created in this article with the GD library, easily describe the data in a very literal [...]