In this tutorial we are going to create a blogroll slider that shows the latest post of your favorite blogs. We will be using jQuery, PHP and XSL. The aim is to get a given RSS feed of a blog and parse the XML data with the help of PHP. We will apply XSL to transform the feed into HTML and cache the result for subsequent use. We will be using a lot of CSS3 properties for a polished look.
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Array Dereferencing is really very good feature added in PHP 5.4. With this you can directly access an array object directly of a method a functions.
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There are some reasons that largely justify such a reaction. After all, building even the simplest Domain Model demands definition of the constraints, rules, and relationships among its building objects...
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This research was done as a first step towards an overall architectural upgrade which will provide our users with an even faster service, we decided to bundle it up and post it here for our readers to give some insight into how we choose the best tech for our stack.
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Here are some Tips for minimizing the HTTP requests...
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As of PHP 5.4.0, the CLI SAPI provides a built-in web server which is intended for development purposes only. We are glad to announce that since PhpStorm 4.0 you can control a web server instance directly from the IDE.
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Giveaway contest for the book PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide
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Suppose you have a God class that is full of ifs and case statements, or boolean flags. Many refactorings try to segregate responsibilities in smaller entities: methods, subclasses, or collaborators.
One option for starting to break up the class is based on inheritance. The end result is many little subclasses, each modelling a special case which was submerged in the original giant class.
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Influenced by discussion with Ed I have decided to use Slim as the framework for a PHP application I am building that is an addition to what is found on the web site for the simulation baseball league I have belonged to for 14 seasons.
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Shortcode is one of the very good feature of the wordpress. With this shortcodes we can format our content as we need.
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The process of connecting into API data via OAuth is tricky. Some of the more notable social networks which have adopted this technology include Foursquare, Twitter, and Facebook. But Instagram is a very popular mobile app which has grown tremendously fast.
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In this quick tip article I am going to explain a small function which gives you information about the image.
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There are two main approaches in sorting – by comparing the elements and without comparing them. A typical algorithm from the first group is insertion sort, very simple and very intuitive to implement, it is useful for small sets of data with about no more than 20 items.
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I’m currently working on a project that involves running Drupal on Amazon EC2. To save time in setting up future new VM instances, I decided to take the opportunity to learn puppet. I’m using a single VM to run the full LAMP stack and running puppet without a server by copying my puppet manifest to the VM and using puppet’s apply command to apply it locally.
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The Separate Domain from Presentation refactoring tries to take you away from the SQL-and-HTML-in-the-same-script approach to target an architectural pattern like layering or MVC2.
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