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Adding Social Media to Your Website Created: Sunday, April 28, 2013 Updated: Sunday, April 28, 2013
How to incorporate social media like Pinterest and Facebook into your website.
Including Social Media in Your Website Created: Sunday, April 28, 2013 Updated: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Including Social Media in Your Website.
Jumping into regular expressions Created: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Updated: Sunday, April 28, 2013
A basic guide to regular expressions, a useful skill in PHP programming.
Installing PHP on Linux Created: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 28, 2013
How to install Apache and PHP on your Linux computer
What is a relational database? Created: Saturday, March 30, 2013 Updated: Sunday, April 28, 2013
What a relational database is, described in terms a non-programmer can understand.
MySQL Quick Start Guide Created: Friday, August 31, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Get a head start on learning MySQL before school starts!
How to use phpMyAdmin for your database. Created: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 Updated: Sunday, April 28, 2013
A basic overview of what you can do to your database with phpMyAdmin.
Create a Stardate with PHP - Star Trek Dates with PHP - Star Date in PHP Created: Thursday, May 07, 2009 Updated: Saturday, March 30, 2013
How to use calculate the star date (like the stardates on star trek) using PHP.
Comparison Operators Created: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 Updated: Saturday, March 30, 2013
A comparison operator compares one value to another.
Learn PHP - All About PHP Functions Created: Friday, February 17, 2006 Updated: Saturday, March 30, 2013
Explore the use of preset PHP functions, with a farther explanation on the date function. Then learn to create your own custom PHP functions.
Getting into Game Design Created: Monday, November 28, 2011 Updated: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Some ideas for programmers looking to get into game design
PHP As A Business Created: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Updated: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Some tips for PHP programmers looking to start a small business selling their programming skills.
Object Oriented Programing - Part 1 Created: Thursday, February 28, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
What is object oriented programming? (Part 1)
Object Oriented Programing - Part 2 Created: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
What is OOP? The second half of our look at object oriented programming.
Programing for Special Education Created: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
This article contains some helpful hints of tailoring your computer programs for use in special education classrooms.
Six fun things to add to your website Created: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Looking for some fun new additions to your website? Here are six really easy PHP scripts for your website.
PHP is a Server Side Language Created: Sunday, October 23, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
PHP is a server side language, this means that all calculation are preformed on the server and not seen by the end user.
Don't Write Code Created: Sunday, September 23, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Why you shouldn't write code, at least not always
Website Accessibility Created: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
How to make your website more accessible to users.
Which loop is best for your project? Created: Thursday, October 20, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
How to use loops in your PHP code to repeat a section of code over and over until a condition is met.
Installing MySQL on Windows Created: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
How to install MySQL on your Windows computer to use for testing
Moving Your Website Created: Monday, July 30, 2012 Updated: Friday, January 18, 2013
What could go wrong when moving your website, and where to look for a solution.
Sandboxing Your PHP Code Created: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Updated: Friday, January 18, 2013
What is sandboxing and how do PHP programmers use it?
Geometry & PHP part 1 Created: Saturday, April 28, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, December 18, 2012
A rundown of some of the geometric functions available to PHP Programmers.
GD Library Cheat Sheet Created: Monday, November 26, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, December 18, 2012
A GD Library cheat sheet to use with PHP.
Installing MySQL on a Mac Created: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, December 18, 2012
How to install MySQL on your Apple computer
Version Control Created: Monday, October 22, 2012 Updated: Monday, November 19, 2012
Working cooperatively on a coding project.
Different ways to use timestamps. Created: Friday, March 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, October 22, 2012
Challenge question #003 deals with using timestamps in PHP.
There's more to a program than code Created: Monday, October 22, 2012 Updated: Monday, October 22, 2012
There is more to creating a nice program than just the code. You need graphic, marketing, etc.
Hiring a Web Programmer Created: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Updated: Monday, October 22, 2012
How the process of hiring a web developer works from the standpoint of the client and the designer.
Learn PHP in 8 Weeks Created: Thursday, May 31, 2012 Updated: Monday, October 22, 2012
In just a few minutes ever week, you can learn all the basics of PHP. This course is broken down into eight short lessons. In just eight weeks you will have a firm grasp of all the basic PHP conc...
Null Created: Thursday, February 23, 2006 Updated: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
In PHP and mathematics, null is used to describe a set with no members (it is void).

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