http://www.good-tutorials.com This is the newest 25 tutorials added to Good-Tutorials.com. en-us With websites becoming more and more dynamic and interactive, developers often look to frameworks to help build websites and web apps rapidly. While there are a number of great frameworks available, a custom framework gives you the ability to easily customize the framework as you need, and to build with it even quicker - as you would already know the ins and outs of it before working with it. In this series of tutorials, we are going to build our very own PHP5 Development Framework! Let's start envato Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:00:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30984/creating-a-php-5-framework-part-1 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30984/creating-a-php-5-framework-part-1 Rather than filling out a HTML form on a website, why not use PHP and the CURL library to automate it? Naresh Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:30:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30971/submit-a-form-with-php-and-curl http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30971/submit-a-form-with-php-and-curl An example of how to integrate uploads into the Doctrine validation process. prodevtips Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:00:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30952/file-uploads-with-php-doctrine http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30952/file-uploads-with-php-doctrine In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily add thumbnails, lead image, and other extras to individual posts in Wordpress. Tutorial9 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:00:04 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30938/add-thumbnails-to-wordpress-with-custom-fields http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30938/add-thumbnails-to-wordpress-with-custom-fields Flickr is one of the most popular image sharing websites of the world. There are thousands if not millions of Flickr groups, which contain images involving that group. Now lets say you got your own Flickr group and want to show it of on your website but you don't know how! Well stop what you are doing right now and read this tutorial because this is the answer you where looking for! Headshot Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:00:09 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30922/displaying-flickr-group-images-in-your-wordpress-sidebar http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30922/displaying-flickr-group-images-in-your-wordpress-sidebar Templating is important to nearly every website now. It allows you to use the same design on all your pages, while having different content. There are many methods of templating; this article will focus on the most common. 1scripts Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:00:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30588/introduction-to-templating-with-php http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30588/introduction-to-templating-with-php An often-used feature on WordPress blogs is the ability to style comments made by the post's author differently from the others - helping replies to stand out. Here, we will edit the default WordPress to add some subtle styling to author comments. envato Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:34:18 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30559/author-comment-styling-in-wordpress http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30559/author-comment-styling-in-wordpress Search is an important part of any website, and a lacking search functionality will mean that your visitors won't find what they're looking for, never a good thing. If you're a WordPress user, you know what it is like, because WordPress, like so many other online publishing platforms, just can't be as good as Google is. However, there are solutions. You can swap your search solution with something else, be it Google Co-Op, or Lijit. envato Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:00:01 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30552/integrating-and-customizing-lijit-for-your-site http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30552/integrating-and-customizing-lijit-for-your-site I noticed some requests on how-to implement sIFR3 into your website - or in combination with WordPress. In this tutorial i will demonstrate where to download sIFR3 and how to install it onto your website or in this case, a WordPress theme. envato Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:30:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30549/how-to-implement-sifr3-into-your-website http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30549/how-to-implement-sifr3-into-your-website WP_Query is a powerful tool to control what comes out of your loop. Today I'm going to teach you all how to use it to make a 3 columned newspaper theme that has all your main blog posts in the main column, and off to the side a set of posts with a certain category. We'll be using the 960 CSS framework for the basic layout and reset of our theme, it will chop a lot of work off what's needed! envato Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:30:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30551/build-a-newspaper-theme-with-wp-query-and-the-96-css-framework http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30551/build-a-newspaper-theme-with-wp-query-and-the-96-css-framework So I was reading a few blogs that I read, as you do on a lazy afternoon, and I came across Ideate . I loved the theme so much, I wanted to re-create the little TV box they have that contains a YouTube video. In this tutorial, we'll have a look at how! envato Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:00:09 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30547/create-a-youtube-section-with-wordpress http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30547/create-a-youtube-section-with-wordpress Here we extend PHP Doctrine records fromArray function to allow for check box group relations to be inserted in a straight forward way. prodevtips Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:30:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30520/extending-php-doctrine-record http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30520/extending-php-doctrine-record Learn how to make an easy to use PHP template parser for your websites static content. itutorialz Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:30:01 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30399/easy-to-use-php-template-parser- http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30399/easy-to-use-php-template-parser- Short tutorial on how to create tables in a database and fetch information from said database with the Doctrine Object Relational Mapper. prodevtips Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:30:03 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30352/php-doctrine-introduction-for-dummies http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30352/php-doctrine-introduction-for-dummies This is part 2 of jQuery chat tutorial. In this one we will add some functions to our old chat script. dabrorius Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:30:01 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30335/jquery-ajax-php-chat-upgrade http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30335/jquery-ajax-php-chat-upgrade Tutorial with source code describing how to create a small MVC framework where PHP doctrine is responsible for the models and Smarty for the views. The controller we make ourselves. prodevtips Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30353/bolting-smarty-to-doctrine http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30353/bolting-smarty-to-doctrine Want to learn how to make your own PHP and MySQL message board? This tutorial will show you pretty much some of the basics of a bog-standard message board. Dale Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:30:01 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30334/mini-message-board http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30334/mini-message-board Heard of Google? or Yahoo!? ... of course you have. Also you know exactly what they do. But why should you just let Google or Yahoo or other search engines take all the glory. Why not try yourself and make your own Search Engine in PHP and MySQL. Ok, you won't beat Google.. but you can have a really good try. Dale Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:30:01 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30317/php-search-engine http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30317/php-search-engine Create a backup script and execute the PHP script using a CRON job. This tutorial is for webmasters if the websites control panel has only capabilities to create full site backups and/or where the access via SSH is disabled. finalwebsites Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:00:03 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30296/create-custom-backups-from-your-website-using-curl http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30296/create-custom-backups-from-your-website-using-curl In order to obtain greater performance while using the Apache HTTP server you may want to consider disabling .htaccess reads and aggregating all of these files, then placing the results in httpd.conf or an included configuration file. visionmedia Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:30:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30261/aggregating-all-htaccess-files-increases-performance- http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30261/aggregating-all-htaccess-files-increases-performance- The internet is not safe. It never will be. We will always have trolls and spammers, but even worse: Hackers. Luckily, you can fight these as a webmaster. The most common reason how your website gets hacked, is via user input that gets displayed. I’ll show you how to avoid this with a fairly simple script. drunkenfury Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:30:07 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30199/how-to-make-a-string-safe-for-display-in-php http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30199/how-to-make-a-string-safe-for-display-in-php WordPress is awesome. Even more awesome is the fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! Here, we'll be learning how to create a featured and "latest posts" section - easily a 'must-have' for all good News/Magazine themes. We'll also go over using the 'Custom Fields' to their fullest potential. envato Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:00:07 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30175/build-a-featured-posts-section-for-wordpress http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30175/build-a-featured-posts-section-for-wordpress Create a web crawler / spider / scraper in under 5 minutes with PHP OO features! infinitely extendable and a great start. visionmedia Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:00:04 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30097/web-crawler-scraper http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/30097/web-crawler-scraper So what we are trying to do is stop people from seeing pages unless they are logged in. We also don’t want any people going directly to the url to see the page either. anthonydamasco Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:30:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/29934/protect-pages-with-a-login-check-script http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/29934/protect-pages-with-a-login-check-script This is the fourth tutorial in the Fundamentals of PHP series, this tutorial will cover the four types of PHP loops, the while loop, the for loop, the foreach loop, and the do loop. LogicDeck Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:00:01 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/29918/fundamentals-of-php-loops http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/29918/fundamentals-of-php-loops