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Dynamic Form Elements with jQuery

May 12, 2012 David Carr 1 Comment Javascript, Tutorials

When creating a form you don’t always know how many form elements to give to the user, it depends on the purpose of the form, In these cases its better to let the user decide bu letting them add new form elements with a click of a mouse. This tutorial will show you how to dynamically add form elements to a form using jQuery.

Removing index.php from your codeigniter 2 url with htaccess

May 8, 2012 David Carr 0 Comments htaccess, Tutorials

in Codeigniter by default all calls to your controller from a http request will have index.php inside the url such as http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/blog it would look much better to be http://www.yourdomain.com/blog don’t you agree? Luckily if your using a Linux host you can use mod-rewrite to mask all http requests to index.php removing the need to have index.php as part of the url.

Creating a simple captcha form with validation

April 29, 2012 David Carr 0 Comments PHP, Tutorials

This tutorial will show you how to create a captcha form to stop automatic submissions, to premis is simple out of 6 letter there’s 3 black ones these must match when the form is submitted or an error message is presented.

Show working days of a month excluding weekends with PHP

March 27, 2012 David Carr 0 Comments PHP, Tutorials

This tutorial will show you how to get the individual working dates of a month, whilst removing weekends, this is useful for creating charts for instance.

Creating an image gallery from a folder of images automatically

March 26, 2012 David Carr 1 Comment PHP, Tutorials

This tutorial will show you how to quickly create a gallery from a folder of images. Using PHP and making use of TimThumb a very handy image resizing script available from http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/ this script lets you resize an image very easily. See a Demo Download Source Files All images will be loaded in to a [...]

WordPress Jetpack get number of Subscriber/followers

March 25, 2012 David Carr 5 Comments PHP, Tutorials

There’s a great WordPress plugin called Jetpack it comes bundled with some great options such as Site Statistics and allowing users to subscribe to your posts and comments to receive a notification via email. Its super easy to setup, you will need a wordpress.com account this is free to setup too. Once its installed there’s [...]

Adding Events to Microsoft Outlook from PHP using ICAL

March 1, 2012 David Carr 2 Comments Development, PHP, Tutorials

I’ve recently been trying to find the best way of creating a calendar event outlook from a php driven application. At first I looked into way of communication with the exchange server directly I soon realized this wasn’t going to be an easy route, I would need to use another protocol to do this something [...]

Move emails to selected IMAP Folder

February 13, 2012 David Carr 1 Comment IMAP, PHP, Tutorials

Moving email from one IMAP mailbox folder another is a simple process this short tutorial will show you how. First create a form with a list the list will be populated with all the mailbox folders using imap_list. Remember you’ll need an open connection to the server first in this example my stream is referenced [...]

Display mailbox folders with IMAP using PHP

February 13, 2012 David Carr 0 Comments IMAP, PHP, Tutorials

When using IMAP its likely you will want access to the users mailbox so they can view all their folders. This tutorial will explain how display mailbox folders using imap_list.

Is Twitter bad for your Blog?

February 12, 2012 David Carr 4 Comments Articles

This is a question I’ve been thinking about recently. I used to blog frequently heck almost daily when I was at university mostly about the projects I was working on.