MariaDB as you may have already known is a community developed branch of popular opensource database engine MySQL. Since it’s inception MariaDB has swiftly surpassed most of its rivals and is now one of the most popular and actively maintained opensource database engines available. MariaDB offers all the features you...
CORS or Cross-Origin Resource Sharing is a mechanism used to pass or share data between web servers. Essentially it is a policy containing a set of HTTP response headers. Why CORS..? The reason for CORS is stright forward. Lets say you wanted to access data sitting one Server A from...
With the growing popularity of REST based API’s, it is very important for web developers to be able to quickly integrate and establish secure communication channels between apps. One very clean and efficient way to pass requests to any REST based API is through PHP’s CURL functon. Let’s look at...
Ever needed to compress a wack of images in a flash? This was usually a pain for me for a very long time until I discovered a light-weight free tool called Caesium. Caesium is an Image Compressor tool with a simple yet effective user interface. Portable (Download) | Installer (Download)...
The world of jQuery is filled with awesome plugins that offer quick access to tons of features every developer needs to make their web projects tick. As a follow up to a post I made over a year ago about how to create your very own autocomplete using PHP and...
Downloading data from PHP or HTML into an Excel spreadsheet is quite important for most web projects but can be a little tricky. This article provides 3 techniques for parsing html/php data to excel(csv). The first method involves Exporting to CSV using jQuery and html, the second introduces a php...
After ten years since the first release of the famous Firefox browser, Mozilla introduces the new Developer Edition. Some of the tools are already available in the standard Firefox developer tools and as add-ons, in addition to newly introduced tools exclusively available in this edition. In this article we will...
Creating a tarball of the files on your server is a quick and easy way of completing a backup. The only issue is that in a real world scenario there’s always some file types or directories which you really don’t wish to backup be it space concern or otherwise. Skip...
Using Swiftmailer, Tinymce and Semantic UI framework to create an embeddable, feature rich mass mailing app. Speedy Mailer adds a sleek easy to use User Interface to swiftmailer. Speedymailer Demo DEMO DOWNLOAD The Interface Speedymailer Class (speedy.class.php) The Speedymailer class uses the PHP Swiftmailer library to send emails. require_once 'swiftmailer/lib/swift_required.php';...