First off I want to say that there are multiple ways of doing something like this. Below is two ways (and I mention a third) to dynamically populate one drop down using the selection of another drop down (aka chaining drop-downs). One way we will see uses a pure JavaScript implementation and another is using a combination of JavaScript and a server-side language (here we are demonstrating PHP). After we ...
While browsing the web today I stumbled across an article from CNN titled "The scattered, futuristic world of home automation" where the author, Heather Kelly, talks about the exciting world of home smart devices as seen at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Expo in Las Vegas. She brought up a good question, how does something as low-tech as a light connect to your smartphone? How might it get to the stage ...
So you want to build a PHP game and are just now learning how to do it. You fired up your browser and began searching for various game articles and perhaps you have found very little. What you did find might not explain a flexible way to apply magical spells to units you create. After all, what is an RPG game without enchantments you can cast on your (or enemy's) ...
Welcome to another exciting episode! Today we will be discussing a topic that seems to be a bit of a confusing one for everyone... storing BLOB images in MySQL and then showing them again using PHP. While it is always advised against, we will show you a little demo code for how this can be done and discuss why/why not do this. We will then talk a little about the ...
Historically the question "How do I login to a website from X Language?" gets asked from time to time on Dream.In.Code. The answers to this question has not been the greatest and these questions tend to be largely ignored. I intend to put an end to this for the Java language with a simple example. The answer, while simple, does expect the reader to be at least familiar with how ...
The other day someone on the board had asked about histogram equalization and it had sparked some thoughts about how it is applied to picture correction and enhancement. Then of course it hit me like a ton of bricks (ouch!), why not make this into a blog post? So here I am telling all you fine people about using PHP to equalize the histogram information in pictures. Now we all ...