David Carr - Web Developer Hull

When I’m not at work I’m usually working on a new project from home which could be anything to updating one of my sites to creating a new Twitter application.

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Quick Tip: when MPDF hangs when generating a PDF

I’m a huge fan of MPDF it’s an incredibly easy HTML to PDF library.

Recently I had some dynamically generated PDF’s that would load indefinitely and eventually crash the browser, strange that the same script produced hundreds of PDF’s before without any…

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Writing to an existing PDF with PHP

On a recent project I had the needed to modify an existing PDF, the modification would be done…

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Connecting to Gmail with imap_open

Using PHP connecting to an POP/IMAP server is a relatively easy process, it can be useful for using…

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Use Google finance calculator to convert currency with PHP

Convert currency from one country to another easily with Google’s finance calculator, using that…

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Detecting dynamic form submissions with php

Here’s a very simple way to detect if a form has been submitted, I’ve recently wrote a plugin for dynamic forms. The problem I had was being able to detect when a form was submitted, normally I would check for submit name array within the post array but…

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Free Web Development E-Book Giveaway from Developer.Press

Fancy getting your hands on the essential PHP ebook PHP Array Filtering: The Use Casesor any of…

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Super simple form Captcha using RainCaptcha

RainCaptcha is simple to use CAPTCHA for forms, it helps prevent spam submissions by creating…

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MySQL get users birthday

Here’s a simple way to select all birthdays for the current date, where the date of birth is stored in a MySQL database in a DATE format, in this examples a column called ‘dob’ is used.

SELECT username FROM users WHERE MONTH(dob) = MONTH(NOW()) AND…

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PHP's extract function and HTML arrays

I’m a huge fan of using the extract function in php its very handy it lets you extract an array of keys to variables.

For example when submitting a form normally I add each post key to a matching variable:

$postTitle = $_POST['postTitle']; $postcat =…

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Free Bootstrap Admin Themes

The following is a collection of freely available Bootstrap admin themes, each theme looks great…

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WordPress Twenty Thirteen theme - display post excerpt's

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Building a content management system from scratch - SEO URLS

This tutorial will explain how to change the simple CMS to use search engine friendly urls instead…

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Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 4 Categories

Blog Series

Part 1 – The Build

Part 2 – SEO URLS

Part 3 Comments with Disqus

Part 4 Categories

This…

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Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 3 comments with Disqus

tutorial is extending the Creating a blog from scratch with PHPwith that in mind I will only be…

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Fixing mod_fcgid: read data timeout

running a script longer then 45 seconds causes a mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 45 seconds, this…

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Preview a domain by editing your "Host" file

When developing a new website it can be very useful to look at the site on a live server before you…

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