Tuesday, July 21, 2009 No Comments
We are currently on day sixteen and each fay we are getting closer to completing our goal. Today, we go over creating and styling an entire page from scratch, including the sidebar. Furthermore, we will learn how to use multiple custom fields and text area inputs to take full advantage of the power of WordPress from the backend admin panel.
Tags: Screencast, wordpress
Category: PHP
Thursday, June 4, 2009 No Comments
Continuing on with our OOP review, we’ll begin to build a real-world database abstraction class. We’ll review the __construct magic method, as well as the mysqli object.
Tags: Screencast
Category: PHP
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 No Comments
We’re back with our Wordpress for Designers series! Moving on with our ‘Paper Business’ theme, it’s time to bring in the slider. Today, we will build and implement a jQuery slider plugin into WordPress, style it properly, and discuss how we will pull out the information from the admin panel. Let’s get our slide on!
Tags: Screencast, wordpress
Category: PHP
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 No Comments
Continuing with our OOP review, today, we’ll create a very simple “calculator” class that should give you a better idea of how abstracting your code to its own class can save you a great deal of time. We’ll also take a look at the helpful “__construct” method, as well as creating variables. Enjoy!
Tags: Screencast
Category: PHP
Sunday, May 10, 2009 No Comments
This tutorial will describe the implementation of a Wordpress plugin starting from scratch. The plugin will connect to an external OSCommerce database and display random products on your Wordpress site. It also implements a configuration page for the Wordpress admin panel.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 No Comments
A tutorial for the very beginners! No matter where you go on the internet, there’s a staple that you find almost everywhere – user registration. Whether you need your users to register for security or just for an added feature, there is no reason not to do it with this simple tutorial. In this tutorial we will go over the basics of user management, ending up with a simple Member Area that you can implement on your own website.
Tags: membership
Category: PHP
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial, we will be creating a basic ‘Shoutbox’ system with PHP. Aimed at beginners to PHP development, this allows you to get your feet wet working with databases before moving on to some of the more advanced PHP tutorials here at NETTUTS.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 No Comments
Now that we’ve got a basic framework (see part 1 and part 2 of this series), we can start thinking about integrating designs with our PHP framework. For now, we’ll concentrate on the front-end design, including how we can make it easy to ’skin’ our new framework.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 No Comments
With the basic structure for our Framework in place, it is time to start adding functionality to it. In this tutorial we will create a template manager and database handler, bringing us a step closer to a powerful Framework fit for use for almost any project. If you haven’t already, be sure to review Part 1 of this series first!
