Configuring Authentication on MS SQL 2008
This tutorial will walk you through configuring your SQL server with credentials for applications and users to connect with. This will allow you to determine who has what type of access as well as how they can update the tables in the database.
Configuring and Creating a Database in MS SQL 2008
This tutorial will walk you through what you need to do to start using the installation of Microsoft SQL 2008 Express Edition that we did in the last tutorial. We will need to configure the services to allow incoming connections and we will also go through creating the database as well as some tables to insert information.
Installing Microsoft SQL 2008 Express Edition
This tutorial will walk you through installing Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. This will allow us to create a database and start writing more advanced applications in Visual Basic that require a database.
Creating Checkboxes Based on SQL Results
This tutorial will walk you through creating a database of categories and then using the categories in the database to create a series of checkboxes. This could be used for forum or board that will allow them to select a category of their story/comment.
jQuery Pop Over Effects
This tutorial we will create a pop over box using the jQuery Javascript Framework. I will demonstrate a few of the animation option in jQuery and discuss why you should or shouldn’t use them.
Simple PHP Website Templates
So you have a basic HTML site with 100 pages, what happens when you want to change the title tag? Well, if you aren’t using PHP includes, you will have to update each file. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could make the change to one file and it would update every page? That is what we will accomplish with our basic PHP template tutorial.
Password Verification and Strength Checker
This tutorial will walk you through creating a registration form that includes a password strength checker to tell the user how strong (security wise) their password is. This form will also include two password boxes and will verify that the same password has been entered twice to prevent typing the wrong thing into a password box.
JavaScript Progress Bar 2
This tutorial will walk you through configuring a JavaScript based progress bar that can triggered by several things. The last tutorial I did, I mentioned doing it with PHP and the results of a query. That is what this tutorial is going to be about.
JavaScript Progress Bar
This tutorial will walk you through Configuring a javascript based progress bar that can triggered by several things. You could have it triggered by how many results are pulled back from a database, or you could have it triggered by the length of a textbox (passwords), or even trigger it by checkboxes that are checked.
Hide and Show a Div Using Javascript
This tutorial will show you how to create a hidden Div and display it with the click of a link. There are a few reasons you may want to hide a Div in a website design. You may want to create a drop down type menu or a box that will show more information when you click a link. Another reason would be for SEO purposes. In theory hiding information in a Div is not against Google’s rules. As long as the user can still see the content when clicking a button you are not displaying different information to the …
Creating a Form that will Search a MySQL Database
In this tutorial I will show you how to add a simple search box to query a MySQL database. This tutorial is a continuation of the “How to Access a MySQL Database Using PHP” tutorial.
Since writing that original tutorial I have created a local WAMP test environment. I have created the database “test” with a table “testable”. The table contains the following fields:
Use JavaScript to Check/UnCheck Checkboxes
This tutorial will walk you through creating a basic HTML site with several checkboxes on it. Then it will show you how to use a single click on a button to check all objects and un-check all objects using JavaScript.








