I was working on a little bit of CSS this morning and ran into some problems that I tried researching a solution for.
The problem?
I created a div that contained an image and some text. Then I overlayed another div directly on top of it to protect the image from a right-click as well as to [...]

Have you ever wished you could adjust how bold your font actually appears? In CSS, we are given this ability, but don’t get to excited because it doesn’t work as you expect. For example:
MY FONT (100weight)
MY FONT (200weight)
MY FONT (300weight)
MY FONT (400weight)
MY FONT (500weight)
MY FONT (600weight)
MY FONT (700weight)
MY FONT (800weight)
MY FONT (900weight)
 
As you can tell, [...]

I was working on a project yesterday that I found it necessary to create an auto-save feature do to the lengthy amount of text that would be entered into a text area. This is a little more complicated, but here it goes!
create.php
<?php
include ‘../../config.php’; //THIS FILE STARTS YOUR DB CONNECTION
if (isset($_POST["submit"])) {
$content = $_POST["content"];
$SQLsavearticle = “PUT [...]

When I was developing this site I quickly realized that while the design looks fine, it prints horribly! Who would want a list of 200 tags included in their print. So I ended up making a fix to allow a printer friendly version of the page to be loaded and then printed. First of all, [...]

I was working on a project this weekend and came accross a blog post about how to send an SMS message to a phone via email. I was intriguged and descided to put this into practice with a PHP script. This script will take a phone number and send an SMS message to that number. [...]

As a final part of a three part series in how to password protect your pages with your new user database that you created from the previous posts. To do this, create a new php file called:
passprotect.php
<?php
include ‘config.php’;
$authorid = $_COOKIE["member"];
$password = $_COOKIE["memberpass"];
$SQLvalidate = “SELECT * FROM `member` WHERE memberid=’$memberid’ AND password=’$password’”;
$results = mysql_query($SQLvalidate);
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($results);
if [...]

This is part 2 of a 3 part part post. The first post is here: How to Create a PHP membership database. This post will take the previous a little further and will demonstrate how to create a login feature to the member database and lso incorperates a password reset ability in case it is [...]

When I develop in CSS, I make a habit of removing all predetermined padding, margins, or borders by simply declaring this at the top of my CSS file.
* {
     padding:0;
     margin:0;
     border:0;
}
Beginners learning CSS will commonly run into the problem of random spacing issues because every element has some form of formatting associated with it. [...]

While working on this site,I decided that it would be cool to have the ability to change the color or design of your website. This thought was quickly diminished when I realized that it would mean that I would need to create a new stylesheet for every color option imaginable….ugh….
What I decided to do was [...]

Just today I was working on a clients WordPress install and ran into a considerable problem. I was trying to upgrade the version of WordPress from 2.1 to 2.6.2 and could imported the posts through the database import functionality (phpmyadmin). After doing the same with the comments, I thought all was set…Boy was I wrong…
The [...]