Archive for Tutorials

CakePHP from scratch: Making a small application in CakePHP

Aug 24, 2010 3 Comments by

I know I promised a live example web application, but have just realized that I need to dive a little bit deeper into framework. The best way to do this is doing a one table small application in Cake PHP.

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CakePHP from scratch: Basic principles

Aug 14, 2010 1 Comment by

In the second tutorial I am going to introduce the basic principles of CakePHP, so you can grasp its power and see why is it so awesome.

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CakePHP from Scratch: Installing and the basics

Aug 12, 2010 1 Comment by

I decided to build a series of tutorials for CakePHP framework. In the first one, I am covering the basics like introducing the framework, installing it and other useful tips for beginning to develop with the robust CakePHP.

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Username availability check using PHP and jQuery

Jul 06, 2010 5 Comments by

Today I am going to show you how easy it is to check for username availability using jQuery AJAX and PHP.

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Simple charts with Open Flash Charts

May 26, 2010 No Comments

I stumbled across this wonderful Open Source charting project called Open Flash Chart. When I saw the demos and tried it, I fell in love with it and just have to write about it.

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Useful Twitter snippets

May 19, 2010 1 Comment

There are times when you need to access the Twitter API and get some info or latest status and display on your page. I bring you snippets that can get your job done in no time.

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How to install Memcached on Windows machine

May 05, 2010 10 Comments

Many of us use Windows machines for development. Sometimes it is hard to test some cool Linux stuff like Memcached on Windows and I am often too lazy to install some virtual machines. So I googled for a while and installed Memcached on Windows. Here is how you can do it too.

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PHP basics – Forms

May 04, 2010 1 Comment

Today I am going to cover forms in PHP. Forms are basic thing when you need to post some information to your application in order to save it to database, email it or print it. I am going to show how to pass information through form to another page and how to do it using AJAX, so your page does not need to refresh.

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Simple search with PHP, jQuery and MySQL

Apr 26, 2010 48 Comments

Today I am going to show you how to implement a simple search from one database table, using PHP and jQuery. Everything will be done without page refresh using jQuery AJAX. So let’s get searchable.

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Cache for your database queries

Apr 22, 2010 4 Comments

You built your site and everything is working fine, but when there is a lot of users on the site, your database becomes a bottleneck. I will show you how to deal with it using simple file cache system for your database results.

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