How to Create Native Admin Tables in WordPress
WordPress list tables are a very common element of the WordPress admin interface. They are used by nearly all default admin list pages, and also often implemented by developers while writing plugins. However, creating one of those tables is not really an intuitive thing to do when you haven't done it befor... More
Creating a simple image gallery with PHP & jQuery
An image gallery is a very common feature for a website to have. It is an efficient way to nicely present a set of pictures. With the increasing popularity of JavaScript plugin, image galleries are nowadays implemented with rich features, effects, and transitions, in order to emphasize the given content. ... More
How to easily integrate a PayPal Checkout with PHP
PayPal is a renowned payment platform that allows you to accept online payments on your site, by taking care of all the money transactions for you. This transparency really is an appreciated quality that allows developers to integrate checkout solutions on merchant sites, by completely outsourcing the ban... More
How to turn any jQuery plugin into a WordPress one
WordPress and jQuery are both very famous for their plugins. In the case of jQuery, plugins allow developers to extend the library's capacities in order to create beautiful effects. In WordPress, they allow anyone to benefit from the work of others, as they come under the form of a module that you can easi... More
YouTube video manager with PHP, MYSQL & jQuery
Youtube is the most popular platform when it comes to upload your videos to the web. It's therefore likely that some day, as a web developer, you'll be asked by one of your clients to integrate some YouTube videos on a web page or a social web app. We'll see in this post how with a PHP class, a little ... More
Form Cloning jQuery Plugin
Building dynamic forms is a task that a lot of web developers will have to do at some point. By dynamic I mean forms that change based on what the user inputs. A basic example of dynamic forms, are those that allow the user to add the same group of information several times. For example, an attendance f... More
My Favourite MYSQL functions
For the previous years I've been trying to point out the areas of my workflow that were taking most of my time to try to optimise them. One of these areas was database interactions meaning the famous 'SELECT', 'INSERT', 'UPDATE' and 'DELETE' statements. When I was still discovering PHP, I spent far too... More
A guide to Ajax Interactions with jQuery
The fantastic jQuery library revolutionized the way javascript is being written around the globe. It's been globally acclaimed and adopted, resulting in an award for best open source project in the end of 2009. In this article, we are going to see how we can use the power of this library to create your... More
Slick Videos Presentation With Fancybox
Recently, a friend of mine asked me how it would be possible to play videos directly from within a fancybox. This post presents the solution I usually use, and reviews the different elements needed, html, css and javascript, along w... More
How to create your own rss feed
RSS is a way of easily keep your site's readers up to date with your latest content. That's a reason why it is widely used by the famous blogs and big sites. Once someone subscribes to an RSS feed, he'll get a notification every time you post some new content to your site. It helps fidelizing your users... More
How to create an Ajax, validated form
Even on some very famous websites and blogs based on the Wordpress platform, such as Smashing Magazine or Webdesigner Depot for example, the comment forms are not checked prior to sub... More
How to make SEO friendly urls
It's now quite common to swap the old url format containing file extensions and non explicit query strings by SEO friendly ones, only made of keywords and slashes, hence their name. There are several techniques to do so, and I certainly do not have the pretention to say that this one is the best of all,... More
Mootools Facebook Search
When it comes to social web, facebook is clearly a reference, packed with outstanding features. Among them, their famous autocompletion search input, allowing you to quickly find a particular friend. Another one that I like is when you want to send a message, it is really easy to select the friends you wan... More
Wordpress SchmancyBox Plugin
SchmancyBox, is the implementation of the FancyBox plugin for Wordpress. So if you're a WordPress user, you'll probably love that stylish and easy to use plugin. Start to add some fancy effects to your website now! The original idea of that plugin came from the London... More
Cached thumbnail Script
A very handy script allowing you to create thumbnails for any given picture. It will also create a cached copy of the result on your server so it's quite interesting performance wise as well. In fact, it's really easy to use and does what it says very well. For example, it has been used to create every ... More
jQuery LightBox Plugin
My favourite plugin! Mostly dedicated to pictures and galleries, this plugin is a zooming and animated tool, well designed and so practical for any demonstration purpose. Source and © Leandro Vieira Pinho.... More
jQuery FancyBox Plugin
The FancyBox is one of the plugin that I like the most. It's so easy to use and renders really nicely, especially with images. It's a Mac like zooming tool that you can customize quite well and really looks amazing. Source and © Janis Skarnelis... More
jQuery jCarousel Plugin
jCarousel is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation). Very nice for an Image Gallery for example. Source and © Jan Sorgalla.... More
jQuery FaceBox Plugin
This code, as its names implies, creates a widget like the one widely used in the famous website facebook. It's far more efficient and nicer than a JavaScript alert() box. Any content can be loaded inside it, pretty helpful for user interaction as well. Source and © Chris Wanstrath.... More
jQuery ThickBox Plugin
This plugin allows you to display a user interface dialog box with any content inside (remote page, images, feeds...) without loading another page. Source and © Cody Lindley.... More
jQuery Form Validation Plugin
The jQuery validation plugin allows you to perform client side form validation, to ensure that all the required data are effectively entered by the user without submitting the form. It's a very powerful plugin with many ways of customization to match your needs. Source and © Jörn Zaefferer.... More
jQuery library
jQuery is a new kind of JavaScript Library. It is a fast and concise library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development, and last but not least, is really simple to understand and manipulate.... More
