Pull Information from Websites with PHP
Screen Scrape Data from a Website with CURL Lots of popular websites on the Internet let you export their data using XML format. If you want to pull your favorite pictures from Flickr automatically you can just use an RSS feed. But, what happens when you want to pull data from a website that doesn’t export the data in XML or other predictable format. If you have CURL installed and know a bit ...
Browse CSS ShowCase Websites
Find Inspiration from Beautiful CSS and XHTML Design If you are doing any web design on the internet, you really should check out some websites that list and display high quality design work. I am referring to websites that show other websites which have been designed with CSS, XHTML, and comply with web standards. I browse these websites for inspiration to my own work. Check out CSS Design ShowCase at CSS Beauty, CSS ...
Flickr Photos in Original Size
Retrieve Original Size of any Flickr Photos I got sick and tired of looking at the source code of photos on flickr that had "All Sizes" disabled to figure out the URL for the original size of the image. It's quite annoying so I decided to write a little program that uses the Flickr API to retrieve the Original Size of any flickr photo based on the photo id. Now, if I am browsing ...
Solutions for Ajax Pitfalls
Problems and Solutions for Ajax Development Like anything else, Ajax has some pitfalls that developers should understand. The first issue concerns visual feedback because Ajax requests via XMLHttpRequest do not provide any feedback. To clarify, when someone clicks on a traditional hyperlink, the browser provides feedback indicating that the content of the link is being loaded. The user knows the browser is working on the request but with Ajax, such feedback is not ...
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Pulling Data From Database
Retrieving Data from MySQL DataBase with PHP A ton of websites use PHP and MySQL for web development and most of the time they are built around some Content Management System that handles database interaction. However, if you are interested in learning how to simply interact with the database using php, then I will provide a nice example. The PHP mysql_fetch_array() function returns an array of the requested data from the table. Then, ...
Flash Photo SlideShows
Best Flash Based XML SlideShow for your Website I covered JavaScript SlideShows previously because overall I prefer a JaveScript solution for a cool photo slideshow. Why restrict yourself to only the users who have Flash enabled? But, these days, most people have flash enabled and some people might want to know about available flash based slideshows. If you want a complete solution, check out AirTightInteractive's SimpleViewer, PostCardViewer, and AutoViewer. These three flash image ...