What’s new in HTML 5
It’s been way too long since we’ve posted anything. With all the news around HTML5 and CSS3 that continues to come out, I...
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Fix the timthumb.php WordPress exploit
There was a recent exploit found in a common file used to generate thumbnails. I found out about the exploit from Mark Maunder’s...
Read MoreParsing XML Feed to an Array with XPath
Recently while working on a project, I found myself needed to parse several different types of files through the same mechanism (CSV, pipe delimited, XML, and more). I decided that it would be best to get each time of feed to a identical object that could then be run through the same methods regardless of the input type. This tutorial will walk you through using PHP and XPath to parse the values from an XML file and store them into array for later manipulation.
Read MoreAccess a MySQL Database Using PDO
This tutorial will show you how to access a mysql database using the PHP Data Objects interface, also known simply as PDO. One big...
Read MoreSimple XML to XHTML Transformation
In this tutorial we are going to use XSLT to transform a simple XML document into an XHTML web page. XSLT stands for eXtensible Style Sheet Transformations. With our XSL document we will pretty much grab the values we need from the source XML and display them nicely in XHTML.
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Using jQuery to Reorder a List and Update a Database
This tutorial will show you how to use jQuery to allow as list (UL) to be reordered and will also make an AJAX call to a PHP file that will update the database when an item is dropped. I found this useful for a project I was working on recently. The user wanted to be able to change the order that categories displayed in a report. The items are stored in a database with a field called display_order. When the report is generated we simply order by that field.
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