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Handy Tips from Tipster

1. May 2009

1286CommentsHandy+Tips+from+Tipster2009-05-01+12%3A03%3A29Ryan+Carson

There have been a ton of helpful and interesting tips posted to Tipster recently, so I thought we’d pull a few out for you all (and give the submitters a bit of well-deserved publicity). Topics that we’re covering are: MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, JQuery, life hacks and server admin. MySQL Geo Search Here’s a MySQL statement to [...]

Silverlight for PHP Developers

13. March 2009

974CommentsSilverlight+for+PHP+Developers2009-03-13+15%3A00%3A16Mark+Quirk

A Microsoft browser plug-in might seem an odd target for the PHP developer, more used to working with open source platforms such as Linux, Apache and the MySQL database server. However there is much about Microsoft Silverlight that makes it a good match to such technologies. For a start, it is a free download and [...]

How to Create an RSS-Enabled, Micro-Blog with Twitter

20. January 2009

780Comments2009-01-20+19%3A59%3A33Ryan+Carson

Have you ever wanted to create a simple multi-person blog, but didn’t want to bother setting up an entire WordPress installation? If so then we’ve got just the answer. By combining Twitter Search, Atom feeds, hash-tags and PHP, you can create an RSS-enabled, micro-blog using Twitter and be up and running in less than 10 [...]

Give your web app international appeal with PHP, Part II

19. June 2007

134Comments2007-06-19+08%3A00%3A19Steve+Ellis

In part one we covered the basics of how to get your website internationalised. In this part we're going to take things a stage further and look at some of the real world problems you might encounter when working with other languages. Plurals Dealing with plurals is the first challenge when internationalising a website. Let's imagine [...]

Give your web app international appeal with PHP, Part I

4. June 2007

136Comments2007-06-04+08%3A00%3A32Steve+Ellis

Building web apps can be a lot of fun - particularly if people like and use them. If you dig through your stats the chances are that people from all over the world are visiting you and they speak lots of different languages. By only serving your app or website in English you’re assuming [...]