How to use the File System in Node.js
Learn the basics of the Node.js file system module, which provides an API for writing files to the macOS, Windows and Linux file systems.
Tag: Intermediate
Instant Form Validation Using JavaScript
This article teaches readers how they can perform instant form validation using JavaScript. The article also explains how a validation polyfill can be made.
Easy Admin Interfaces with Active Admin in Rails
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Design a Product Mascot using Illustrator
Good Character design can give your site/brand an emotional resonance that text logos can't ever hit. Today Anum walks you through her design process.
Creating a Subscription-Based Website with Laravel and Recurly, Part 2
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Collection Classes in PHP
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Creating a Subscription-Based Website with Laravel and Recurly, Part 1
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Setting Up PHP behind Nginx with FastCGI
Nginx is eating into Apache’s marketshare, and running PHP behind nginx with FastCGI is becoming an increasingly commonplace alternative.
Hashing Passwords with the PHP 5.5 Password Hashing API
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Bringing Unicode to PHP with Portable UTF-8
This article covers what the lack of Unicode support in PHP means, and demonstrates the use of the Portable UTF-8 library.
Coding a Lorem Ipsum Alternative
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Push Notifications with Prowl
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Convert HTML to PDF with Dompdf
This article shows you how you can easily generate PDF documents using PHP with the Dompdf library.
Create a Podcast Feed with PHP
Podcasts are quite popular! See how PHP can be used to generate a podcast feed which you can then submit to iTunes.
Generators in PHP
Take a look at how generators provide an easy way to implement simple iterators without the overhead or complexity of the Iterator interface.
Server-Side Device Detection with Browscap
This article looks in detail at the Browser Capabilities Project, or Browscap for short, to sniff browser information so you can alter content server-side.
Build a CRUD App with Yii in Minutes
Yii is very powerful when it comes to developing Web 2.0 projects. In fact, we just saw how easy it is to create a fully functional CRUD system in only a few minutes!
Array Operators in PHP: Interesting but Less Spoken
The official PHP documentation on how array operators behave is sparse. Learn about them as well as how other operators behave when used with arrays.
Understanding Streams in PHP
Streams were introduced as a way of generalizing file, network, data compression, and other operations which share a common set of functions and uses.
Inattention Blindness – Missing the Obvious
You've been staring at code for hours when a coworker comes over and finds the problem instantly. Inattention blindness was most likely at play.
Proc_Open: Communicate with the Outside World
There are many ways to interact with external processes; see how to use PHP's proc_open() function to easily achieve interprocess communication (IPC).
Extract Objects from an Access Database with PHP, Part 2
Learn how PHP can be used to extract objects from OLE types. Part 2 focuses on PDF and images.
Extract Objects from an Access Database with PHP, Part 1
Learn how PHP can be used to extract objects from two OLE types: packages and Acrobat PDF documents. Part 1 focuses on OLE packages.
Openbiz Cubi: A Robust PHP Application Framework, Part 1
In this part of series, we'll talked about the development challenges we're going face and how Openbiz Cubi can help by providing a solid, ready-to-use web application framework.
Safely Deprecating APIs
Deprecating features in your API before they are done away or transformed gives users who depend on your code time to update their own code.
Maven and PHP
Maven for PHP is a capable build automation tool for the PHP platform. See how to install and use Maven for PHP from the command line and in Eclipse.
Crop and Resize Images with ImageMagick
If you let users upload photos, cropping/resizing functionality will come in handy. See how you can create an image cropping tool with ImageMagick and PHP.
Accessible Audio Descriptions for HTML5 Video
James describes a simple but surprisingly effective technique, for synchronising multiple media sources, in order to add accessible audio descriptions to an existing video.
Consuming Feeds with SimplePie
The PHP library SimplePie allows for quick and easy feed consumption and display. See how you can get started writing your very own feed reader.
Generating One-Time Use URLs
A one-time URL is a specially crafted address that is valid for one use only. See how to generate, implement, and expire one-time URLs.