Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Jquery Tutorial for absolute beginners

Please understand, this tutorial is for absolute beginners and its pretty much straightforward and presented with some really basic jquery syntax examples.

Linking to jQuery's source code remotely

This is one technique which developers and php programmers are using today. In this way, programmer don't have to download and save jquery file on their machine. however, you must have really good internet connection for remote method to work. If jquery file from remote url is not downloaded properly, your application wouldn't work. It also means, if remote website is down, then you code will not work as well.

Sunday, 26 August 2012

Choices of Hosting your PHP website

In learning, PHP/MySQL, the end game is presenting your website to viewers. So, You will need to shift your website from your computer to server of some very good hosting company. So what really is a web host ?

A web host is a company which provide space and constant availability of your website to website users. Obviously, for quality services, they can charge you monthly fee.

There are 3 kind of Hosting Options for your PHP website
  1. Shared Hosting
  2. VPS - Virtual Private Servers
  3. Fully Dedicated Hosting

Saturday, 25 August 2012

Top 3 PHP Frameworks

There are many free (open source) PHP frameworks available for download to create robust, dynamic websites in php very fast. But first, let's visit the definition.
Code Igniter - trusted PHP framework
A framework is an application which helps to create websites in less time by providing the common activities in a website. Like, a framework usually contains code for validation, minimize security flaws and validate input data

There are many PHP frameworks available, some of them include

Thursday, 23 August 2012

Sending Variables from One Page to Another Page in PHP

Another major module in programming languages is sending variables from one page to another page. Usually, for many reasons we need to send some data on one page to be shown on another page. There are two major ways to send variables from one page to another page.

  • Sending variables by using forms.
  • Sending variables without forms.

Top 5 PHP resources Online

There are many websites online which have thousands of scripts for free download. You can download and install it on your website or download it and try to see the coding style and learn it. Though, some scripts have licensed version, you can use them to learn the code styles instead using it on your website. Mostly, all kind of scripts are available online. There are dozens of free shopping carts in php like open cart etc, there are CMS like joomla and wordpress which are open source as well.