Aggro Detection with Javascript

So you want to make some games? Sure it sounds easy, but until you dive into it you’ll never notice all the little things that go into the backend of it that make or break your game. While this isn’t as big a deal in current browser-based games (they’re either muds, flash or static maps) [...]

Simple Website Instant Messenger – Client-side Functionality

This is part two of the Simple Website Instant Messenger (SWIM for short, I love it when acronyms just work themselves out) and will cover adding some client-side functionality to our system. For part 1, click here.
Client-side functionality essentially translates itself to “using JavaScript to do some funcy (eh? get it? Funcy? Functional?) things”. It [...]

jQuery Primer – An Intro to Client-side Functionality

If you’re interested in web development, you’ve doubtlessly come across jQuery and wondered about how you could utilize it in your own projects. jQuery looks a little daunting at first, but hopefully by the end of this little introduction to jQuery you’ll have a much firmer grasp on it and be able to take your [...]

Simple Website Instant Messenger – The Static Prototype

For the past day I have been laying the ground-work for a little side-project of mine. My eventual goal is to offer the application for free, but in the mean time I thought I’d go through a bit of a tutorial outlining how I came up with the prototype for SWIM. This probably won’t be [...]

A Default Config.php For All Your Projects

Wheneve rI start on a php project, I include the latest version of my config.php file from my Snippets section. This file contains my most commonly used functions and serve as the base from which I build whatever website/application I am working on. Instead of re-writing my config files differently for each application, I have [...]

mod_url without mod_url?

I know the title seems to make no sense but bear with me a minute. mod_url is an extension for the apache server that allows you to specify automatic routes for urls. So someone going to http://wheremy.feethavebeen.com/xangelo would see their profile page instead of going to http://wheremy.feethavebeen.com/profile?=xangelo It’s just a pretty way of formatting URLs. [...]

FTP (and it’s cousin, SFTP)

What is it?
From the techical side of things FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It’s just a fancy way of saying it’s a standard for transferring files between your computer and another computer, be it a web server, or just your friends pc. FTP isn’t something you generally need to worry about until you own [...]

Downloading With Rapidshare (Premium User Account)

Rapidshare is becoming one of the number one sources for downloading illegal materials damn near anything. Of course, downloading from Rapidshare can be a bit of a hassle. The problem is two fold.

Rapidshare forces users to click a download link, even if they are premium users
Often times downloads are split into multiple parts

This guide will [...]

Real-World OOP with PHP and MySQL

Check out an in depth tutorial covering Object Oriented design practices through the development of your own MySQL interaction object using PHP. It’s a mouthful, but it takes you from know OOP knowledge to a working OOP application.

Preserve query strings

As you keep developing your website, you’ll notice that occasionally you’ll need to keep track of more than one query string at a time. Eventually, you’ll find that this gets to be such a task in itself, you’ll wish there was an easier way to do it. That is what the preserve_links() function does. It [...]