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Use PHP to Fetch an Album Artwork From Amazon
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: more »  Read More →

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How to Have an Opaque Text on a Transparent Background
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 it display the caption. edit: theodin posted a comment with a link to this kind of effect, check... more »

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Check if A Number is Even or Odd with PHP
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 php code looks like this: if ($number % 2) { echo 'The number is even'; }... more »

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Simple Way of Implementing BBCode with PHP
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 this piece of code to let them use those BBcodes. Please note that we could do this using REGEX but... more »

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Create A Sliding AD Showing Up From The Bottom *upd 15.06.2009*
Create A Sliding AD Showing Up From The Bottom *upd 15.06.2009*

Did you ever want to do something like this? An ad showing from the bottom of the screen? Well, today I’m going to show you how to do it, without the need to spend $47 Yay! We are going to do reproduce this by using mootools and some styling. Again, it’s an easy thing to make. Let’s start by including mootools in our document and writing a little... more »

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PI wallpaper
PI wallpaper

I made a wallpaper using a tutorial and it came out quite nice, so if you want to use it on your 15,4″ laptop, feel free to download it. Created following this tutorial on tutorial9.net. Have a nice day!  Read More →

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