Ever visit a website and see some elements which seem to disappear or appear with a gradual fade in or fade out effect? Ever wonder how that is done? I am sure you have at one point. You probably dug around Google and would find some long winded scripts that may or may not work quite right. Maybe they are hard to setup and always had bugs. We here at ...
Autoloading is a relatively easy concept to understand in PHP 5, but little is talked about it for the newbie programmer or those who are coming up out of PHP 4. It is part of that large group of functions known as "magic functions" and is responsible for getting around that large block of include/require statements you may see at the top of many big PHP scripts. In this entry ...
Once in awhile every great programmer just needs a little snippet to get the project moving forward. One great snippet that is really useful is one for generating unique passwords. You could use something like this for assigning a generic password to an account (perhaps for a PHP game) that the user then logins with and changes their password or simply for resetting passwords (like in a forgot password feature). ...
Some of you may be old Google gadget pros. With a dozen or so of them on your fancy schmancy iGoogle page. You might have even wondered how one is made and if you are dedicated enough, you might have even made the "Hello World" example. But what if you wanted to make something simple enough to get the basics, but more than a simple hello? Like so many other ...
