Google’s new Google+ service is taking the development world by storm, and why shouldn’t it? It’s minimalistic UI, use of cutting edge web techniques, and overall usability make it Google+ one of the more impressive web applications I’ve seen in quite a while (I was going to say "since Google Wave", but that one didn’t …
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How can I execute PHP code on my existing myfile.html page?
When a web page is accessed, the server checks the extension to know how to handle the page. Generally speaking if it sees a .htm or .html file, it sends it right to the browser because it doesn’t have anything to process on the server. If it sees a .php extension (or .shtml, or .asp, …
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TimThumb – PHP Image Resizer
TimThumb is a simple, flexible, PHP script that resizes images. You give it a bunch of parameters, and it spits out a thumbnail image that you can display on your site.
Highlight PHP and JavaScript Code with PHP
PHP has a cool function that automatically highlights PHP code called highlight_string();Theoretically this could be used to roll your own code highlighting on a site, rather than rely on JavaScript or some kind of external service to do it. In this article I’ll show you the basics of how it works, then extended it with …
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Sending e-mails via SMTP with PHPmailer and Gmail
Why using GMail for sending mail messages? First of all it’s FREE! Sure most website owners can use their own SMTP server for sending email messages from their website,
jQuery Masonry
A dynamic layout plugin for jQuery The flip-side of CSS floats