My New Blog Design

Because I’m to lazy to do this on my computer and then upload it and because I know there’s not much people who reads this, I decided to make a new design on the fly, editing directly the files on the server. That’s why, if you are checking this blog,... 

Help me Test my Mailing List System

I’m developing my very own mailing list system and need you to help me test it All you have to do is subscribe to it on the right, it is free, quick and doesn’t hurt (you will also get a verification email, which you should check and click the link included). Since... 

Make Your Titles Dynamic with PHP

When developing your website, if you want to rank well in search engines it is crucial that you use different titles for every sub-page you’ve got online. This is because these search engines (Google, MSN etc) love your titles and categorize your site based on... 

Use PHP to Fetch an Album Artwork From Amazon

It’s actually pretty easy once you find out how to do it. By having the artist and album name you can fetch the album artwork from Amazon in three different sizes. With php5 it’s very easy since it has an integrated xml parser. All we have to do is this:  Read More →

How to Have an Opaque Text on a Transparent Background

This is what I’m going to show you how to do: This is Kakashi from the Naruto anime. It’s a nice effect that can be used for many things, for a nice gallery or something. You could combine this with some JS, add a hover effect to the picture and have... 

Check if A Number is Even or Odd with PHP

I’m going to show you a very simple method for finding out if a number is even or odd in php. You could use this for many things but usually this is mostly used when you have a, let’s say, table and you want to color the background of every second row differently. The... 

Simple Way of Implementing BBCode with PHP

When posting on forums, we usually use BBcode for styling our texts. When developing webpages, if we want to let our users style their profiles but don’t want to give them permission to style directly with CSS or html (<strong> etc..), we could simply use...