A Blog in Suburban Glory: Web Design Ideas and Inspiration

Lets loose from the Code Zoo elePHPants have been spotted all over world, roaming and looking for an Apache pasture to graze on.

They were seen in November in Munich, Barcelona in October, in Rio de Janeiro in July and is supposedly due to be seen at the Business Design Centre in London on ...

This is a method that I use to shrink Javascript or CSS files using PHP. You don't need any knowledge of PHP to try this out as you can just cut'n'paste the required code.

I've used it quite a few times now and it will compress your file by around 50%. Which, if your CSS file is over 1,000 ...

I'm just working on a script at the moment that allows users to submit a blog URL and the blog RSS feed.

To check whether the submitted URL is a properly formatted address I use FILTER_VALIDATE_URL but there is no such filter function for RSS feeds.

So after putting on m...

There are many reasons why data from a database needs to be presented in an attractive multi-column layout. It may be that you have a list of user names or site editors and contributors to display, or a list of categories for visitors to browse.

It is for the latter case that I needed both ...

PHP is probably the world's most popular web development language. Started in the mid-90s in Israel and derived from the PERL language, it is used by thousands of web developers and is the constituent basis of millions of existing websites.

There are other languages in use such as Python, R...