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Examine the 10 key PHP functions I use frequently
PHP never ceases to surprise me with its built-in capabilities. These are a few of the functions I find most fascinating. 1. Levenshtein This function uses the Levenshtein algorithm to calculate the disparity or "distance" between two text strings. Named after its creator, Vladimir Levenshtein, it measures how identical two words or…
Category : Php 17-10-2023 by Silvia Mazzetta
How to upload files to the server using JavaScript
In this tutorial we are going to see how you can upload files to a server using Node.js using JavaScript, which is very common. For example, you might want to upload an avatar, a thumbnail, a PDF file or any other image or file in various formats. We are going to…
Category : Javascript 14-06-2023 by Janeth Kent
Let's create a Color Picker from scratch with HTML5 Canvas, Javascript and CSS3
HTML5 Canvas is a technology that allows developers to generate real-time graphics and animations using JavaScript. It provides a blank canvas on which graphical elements, such as lines, shapes, images and text, can be drawn and manipulated with great flexibility and control. Here are some key concepts about HTML5 Canvas: 1. Canvas…
Category : Web design 01-06-2023 by Janeth Kent
Infinite scrolling with native JavaScript using the Fetch API
I have long wanted to talk about how infinite scroll functionality can be implemented in a list of items that might be on any Web page. Infinite scroll is a technique that allows the user to interact with the mouse by scrolling down to load new dynamic content. In this way, the…
Category : Javascript 15-05-2023 by Janeth Kent
Callbacks in JavaScript
Callback functions are the same old JavaScript functions. They have no special syntax, as they are simply functions that are passed as an argument to another function. The function that receives the callback as an argument is called a higher-order function. Any function can be used as a callback, since it is…
Category : Javascript 22-05-2023 by Janeth Kent
Top JavaScript libraries and frameworks part 1
JavaScript libraries and frameworks make it easy to develop websites and applications with a wide variety of features and functionality, all with dynamic, flexible and engaging features. According to a 2020 StackOverflow survey, JavaScript remains the most widely used programming language (for the eighth year), with 67.7% of respondents using it. Its…
Category : Javascript 06-05-2021 by Janeth Kent
Creating simple CSS spinner-loader
In today's article we will show you how to animate a basic loader that spins when some predefined action is defined, such as loading an image. That can be used on a website for example when there is a request running and the result is not yet retrieved. What are they? Loading…
Category : Css 05-04-2021 by
A FULFILLED PROMISE - Using the FETCH API to make AJAX calls
In this article we talked about what AJAX calls are and how to use them in a traditional way, by using the XMLHttpRequest (XHR) object. In short, thanks to AJAX calls a web page can be partially updated without having to reload the whole content. This leads to better loading…
Category : Javascript 26-12-2020 by Iveta Karailievova
Making AJAX requests to a REST API using vanilla JavaScript and XHR
Imagine you just build your first static web page and you would like to add some functionality to make it more attractive and generally more usable. Perhaps you would like to entertain your web page visitor with randomly generated cat facts, jokes, or, (preferably not randomly generated) weather forecasts or…
Category : Javascript 25-11-2020 by Iveta Karailievova
The package managers npm and yarn: main differences
Npm and yarn are package managers that help to manage a project’s dependencies. A dependency is, as it sounds, something that a project depends on, a piece of code that is required to make the project work properly. In the past we had only npm but it had so many issues…
Category : Javascript 19-08-2020 by Luigi Nori
How to integrate native images lazy loading in your web projects
Support for natively lazy-loading images is now supported on the web! Look at this demo of the feature From the version 76 of Chrome, you can use the loading attribute to lazy-load images without the need to write custom lazy-loading code or use a separate JavaScript library. Let's dive into the details. Browser compatibility is supported…
Category : Programming 03-04-2023 by Luigi Nori
CRUD Operations Using Vue.js: a basic example
In this tutorial, we show you how to create CRUD application using vue js. here is very basic and simple example of vue.js crud app. using this vuejs crud (create read update delete) you can easily implement with php mysql or also in laravel or codeigniter framework. So it is a…
Category : Javascript 23-05-2020 by Luigi Nori
Vanilla JavaScript equivalent commands to JQuery
JQuery is still a useful and pragmatic library, but chances are increasingly that you’re not dependent on using it in your projects to accomplish basic tasks like selecting elements, styling them, animating them, and fetching data—things that jQuery was great at. With broad browser support of ES6 (over 96% at…
Category : Javascript 29-08-2019 by Luigi Nori
Progressive Web Apps Directory: The Best Collection of Resources
Get started with progressive web apps and learn things in depth, this page will list the best resources we know of to help you understand Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) . Make sure to bookmark this page, as this is a living document that we’ll be adding to from time to time.Progressive…
Category : Javascript 20-06-2019 by Janeth Kent
7 Useful tricks for writing more concise and performant JavaScript
When we started writing about JavaScript, we created a list of every time-saving trick we discovered in the code of other people, on websites, and anywhere other than the tutorials we used. Since then, we've been contributing to this list and now we are going to share 11 triks that strike us as particularly smart or helpful.…
Category : Javascript 04-06-2019 by Janeth Kent
Level Up Your JavaScript Skills: 12 basic notions
If you are a developer at any level, understanding its basic concepts is crucial. This article highlights 12 basic concepts that are critical to understanding by any JS developer, but do not represent the full range of what a JS developer should know. 1. Value vs. Reference Variable Assignment To coding bug-free JavaScript,…
Category : Javascript 23-05-2020 by Janeth Kent
Async/Await how they really work: an example
Promises give us an easier way to deal sequentially with asynchrony in our code. This is a welcome addition, given that our brains are not designed to deal efficiently with asynchronicity. Async / await functions, help us to write completely synchronous code while performing asynchronous tasks in the background. The functionality…
Category : Javascript 22-02-2019 by Janeth Kent
Tips for JavaScript Developers
Another year is over and JavaScript is constantly changing. However, there are some tips that can help you write in 2019 clean and efficient code that scales. Below is a list of 9 pragmatic suggestions. async / await Are you still trapped in callback hell? Don't use callbacks unless it's completely necessary, such…
Category : Javascript 08-06-2020 by Janeth Kent
Working with JSON in JavaScript
JSON is short for JavaScript Object Notation and an easy - to - access way to store information. In short, it gives us a collection of human - readable data that we can access in a very logical way. In addition to RSS feeds, any sites now share data using JSON,…
Category : Javascript 08-04-2020 by Janeth Kent
How to build a basic PWA with HTML and Javascript
Looking at the web for a basic PWA online training exercise, everything I found was just too confused or required libraries/system/stage or another. If we need to learn another innovation, we would preferably not get derailed with redundant subtleties ... We have indeed composed a basic introductory exercise to draw from different…
Category : Javascript 10-04-2020 by Janeth Kent
Useful Terminal Commands Every Web Developer Should Know About
The command line interface (CLI), or Terminal is considered by many to be the Holy Grail of computer management. At one time the CLI was the only way to accomplish anything on a computer; then, the CLI gave way to the graphical user interface (GUI) as the popularity of PCs…
Category : Operating systems 22-06-2018 by Janeth Kent
Useful technical SEO checklist for developers
Let's start from the beginning. What is SEO? When we talk about SEO we are talking about Search Engine Optimisation: we are talking about the organic positioning of a web page in search results. And when we say organic positioning we mean unpaid positioning. SEO is a discipline, strategy or set…
Category : Seo & sem 15-05-2023 by Janeth Kent
CSS Progressive Loading in Chrome
Until now, only in IE/Edge could we leverage streaming of CSS to load progressively the CSS of the components as their HTML is streamed. In other browsers, they would normally block rendering till the entire CSS sources were loaded, giving us the white screen of wait before anything could render. With…
Category : Css 09-05-2017 by Janeth Kent
Fetch API, an amazing replacement of XMLHttpRequest AJAX
When AJAX came to the modern web, it changed the definition of how web works. We all are using ajax for a long time but not with Fetch API. To load a new content in a web page, we do not need a full page reload. Using AJAX, we can…
Category : Programming 19-02-2017 by Janeth Kent
Install Apache, MariaDB and PHP7 on Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus comes with PHP7 by default so you don’t have to rely on third-party PPA to get PHP7 installed. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to install Apache, MariaDB and PHP7 (LAMP stack) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus. Update: This tutorial is…
Category : Servers 18-11-2016 by Janeth Kent
MySql: How to build a performant search engine
In content-heavy websites, it becomes increasingly important to provide capable search possibilities to help your users find exactly what they’re looking for. The most obvious solution is searching your MySQL database directly, but implementing a generic MySQL search is not at all trivial. Here’s how to avoid those pitfalls and…
Category : Databases 10-09-2016 by Janeth Kent
SQLMAP installation and usage in Ubuntu and Kali linux
Let's talk about the penetration testing using one of the KALI linux tool called SQLMAP. What is SQLMAP? sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It is a open source tool to use sql injection…
Category : Security 13-08-2016 by Janeth Kent
PHP7: Guide and References to all the changes between version 5.x and 7 of PHP
PHP 7 was released on December 3rd, 2015. It comes with a number of new features, changes, and backwards compatibility breakages that are outlined below. Performance Features Combined Comparison Operator Null Coalesce Operator Scalar Type Declarations Return Type Declarations Anonymous Classes Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax Closure call() Method Filtered unserialize() IntlChar Class Expectations Group use Declarations Generator Return Expressions Generator Delegation Integer Division with intdiv() session_start() Options preg_replace_callback_array() Function CSPRNG Functions Support…
Category : Php 27-12-2015 by Janeth Kent
How to Configure Cloudflare Flexible SSL with WordPress website
This article is part of a serie of articles about Wordpress optimization with Cloudflare and some kinds of servers, if you want to understand well read these articles before: Speed up your site and protect it against DDOS attacks with CloudFlare Million of visitors per day with a super cheap php mysql…
Category : Servers 03-12-2015 by Janeth Kent
PHP: list of best awesome PHP libraries
It is an exciting time to be a PHP developer. There are lots of useful libraries released every day, and with the help of Composer and Github, they are easy to discover and use. Here is a complete list of the coolest that We’ve come across. Package Management Libraries for package and…
Category : Php 27-04-2014 by Janeth Kent
GIT - the simple guide
setup Download git for OSX Download git for Windows Download git for Linux create a new repository create a new directory, open it and perform a git init to create a new git repository. checkout a repository create a working copy of a local repository by running the command git clone /path/to/repository when using a remote server, your command will be git…
Category : Software 13-01-2014 by Janeth Kent
WebDev:32 New Tools and Services for Web Developers
Web developers should always be aware of the current news. In order to help them in their work brilliant web developers from all over the world always try to invent new tools and find bright decisions. We want to bring to your attention a selection of some useful tools such…
Category : Programming 28-11-2013 by Janeth Kent
Isomorphic JavaScript: a new paradigm
Spike Brehm, in a article written for http://venturebeat.com, explains that at Airbnb, they have learned a lot over the past few years while building rich web experiences by dividing into the single-page app world in 2011 with their mobile web site, launching Wish Lists and their newly-redesigned search page. Each of these is a…
Category : Javascript 27-11-2013 by Janeth Kent
Tutorial: Introduction to PHP:PDO
Many PHP programmers learned how to access databases by using either the MySQL or MySQLi extensions. As of PHP 5.1, there’s a better way. PHP Data Objects (PDO) provide methods for prepared statements and working with objects that will make you far more productive! PDO Introduction “PDO – PHP Data Objects…
Category : Databases 15-10-2013 by Janeth Kent
Improving Page Performance with HTML5 Prefetch
As Wikipedia explains: Link prefetching is a proprietary syntax to give web browsers a hint about documents that it should pre-fetch because the user might visit them in the near future. It is proposed as a draft internet standard by Mozilla. A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to…
Category : Programming 23-08-2013 by Janeth Kent
50 Fresh Tools for Developers and Designers
Web developers and web designers regularly look for new resources, tools and services to make the search of these ever-growing techniques easier. This overview presents some of the most useful round-ups of time-savers, tools and services for Web designers. As every designer or developer knows, anything that can save you just…
Category : Web design 08-07-2013 by Janeth Kent
Get Disqus Comments With Php
This script will create a configurable widget that will display the latest Disqus comments from your site. Note: You need to signup with Disqus and register a new application in order to use this script. Using the Script This script should work on any server running PHP v5+.I haven't tested it on PHPv4,…
Category : Programming 27-06-2013 by Janeth Kent
PHP Recursive Backup of MySql Database
This script can be used to make backup of your MySql database, you can use the script in conjunction with cronjobs $user = 'myuser'; $passwd = 'mypass'; $host = 'myhost'; $db = 'mydb'; // Delete the tables if they exists? $drop = true; // Tables that will be created $tables = false; // Compression algorythm that we will use $compression…
Category : Databases 24-06-2013 by Janeth Kent
Install and Configure Varnish with Apache multiple Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 12.10
About Varnish Varnish is an HTTP accelerator and a useful tool for speeding up a server, especially during a times when there is high traffic to a site. It works by redirecting visitors to static pages whenever possible and only drawing on the virtual private server itself if there is a…
Category : Networking 21-06-2013 by Janeth Kent
How To Create a Metro UI-Styled Website
In Ma-No we liked the Metro UI as it fits into many aspects of the modern web design like simplicity, grid-based interfaces (good for responsive layouts) and it is consistent in every part (there is really a style guide behind it). If you like the Metro UI and planning to create…
Category : Web design 05-06-2013 by Janeth Kent
Install Wordpress, Nginx, PHP, and Varnish on Ubuntu 12.04
About Varnish Varnish is an HTTP accelerator and a useful tool for speeding up a server, especially during a times when there is high traffic to a site. It works by redirecting visitors to static pages whenever possible and only drawing on theserver itself if there is a need for an…
Category : Networking 29-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
25 Metro Style Scripts and Tutorials for Web Developers
The Metro Design style is slowly gaining popularity since most web developers today prefer to use it for their various websites with the use of JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. Here we have listed some Metro Style Scripts and Tutorials for web developers ad designers. All to make it easier for you to…
Category : Web design 28-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
Million of visitors per day with a super cheap php mysql server using nginx and varnish
These instructions are the rather verbose, but hopefully easy enough to follow, steps to build a new Linux server using Varnish and Nginx to build a php application on a cheap server , all costing under $15 a month, capable of sustaining million hits per day, (we use blitz.io to…
Category : Networking 28-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
10 most used PHP features
We have compiled a selection of top 10 PHP native functions, classes and features. We know first-hand how invaluable these features are, so we hope you find them to be useful too. 1. PDO Class We use the PDO (PHP Data Object) exclusively for connecting to our MySQL databases. PDO provides a nice abstraction layer…
Category : Programming 22-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
Memcache: Installation and Usage on Ubuntu 12.10
About Memcache Memcache is a system that works to speed up virtual private servers by caching server information. The program allows you to allocate a specific amount of the server ram toward caching recently queried data for a certain amount of time. Once the data is requested again, memcache speeds up…
Category : Databases 03-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
Download Google fonts to your desktop
The goal of Google Fonts has always been to bring beautiful, open-source fonts to the web, fast and free of cost. Starting today, you can download these fonts for offline access on your desktop. We’ve made all of the fonts from the Google Fonts directory available in SkyFonts, a tool from Monotype that…
Category : Operating systems 01-05-2013 by Janeth Kent
Useful Bookmarklets for your iPad and iPhone
The Safari browser of your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) doesn’t support extensions (or add-ons) but you can still add extra functionality to the mobile browser with the help of bookmarklets. Bookmarklets, if you are new, are like regular bookmarks but instead of opening new websites, bookmarklets are often used…
Category : Software 26-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
Accelerating Page Loads with Lazy Load
In today's digital age, website performance plays a vital role in delivering an exceptional user experience. Slow page load times can frustrate visitors, leading to high bounce rates and reduced engagement. One effective technique to optimize page loading speed is lazy loading. This article explores the concept of lazy load, its…
Category : Javascript 29-05-2023 by Janeth Kent
Creating a Notepad app with indexedDB
indexedDB, which is new in HTML5, allows developers to persist data within the web browser. As a result your app runs both online and offline with powerful query facilities. indexedDB is different from traditional relational databases in that it is an objectStore instead of a collection of rows and columns. You just…
Category : Databases 14-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
Php: Introduction to Mysqli Extension
Experienced developers eschew the original MySQL extension because of its abandoned status in PHP. Nascent web developers, however, may be completely oblivious to its dormant past and dying future. Introductory tutorials for connecting to MySQL from PHP are certainly abundant, as is evident from a simple “php and mysql tutorial” Google…
Category : Networking 11-04-2013 by Janeth Kent
