PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS The Magic of PHP + MySQL It’s safe to say that nearly every website that’s up-to-date these days is using some form of content management system (CMS). While there are a ton of great free options that provide us with a CMS to power a website (WordPress, Drupal, etc.), it doesn’t hurt to peek under the hood and get a feel for how these systems work. To get our feet wet as back-end developers, we’ll be creating a simple PHP class that will: Create a databaseConnect to a databaseDisplay a form with two fieldsSave the form data in the databaseDisplay the saved data from the database Download Files This class is intended to give you a feel for how PHP and MySQL interact together, and to show the basics of a CMS. Building the Class Our first step is to simply lay out the class in a file named ‘simpleCMS.php’ so we have a road map to work with. As you can see, we’re creating one class with four variables and five methods. The Variables Build the Database Connect to the Database Build the Form <! <?
Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins jquer.in - A jQuery plugin a Day React | A JavaScript library for building user interfaces A Simple Component React components implement a render() method that takes input data and returns what to display. This example uses an XML-like syntax called JSX. Input data that is passed into the component can be accessed by render() via this.props. JSX is optional and not required to use React. Live JSX Editor Compiled JS A Stateful Component In addition to taking input data (accessed via this.props), a component can maintain internal state data (accessed via this.state). An Application Using props and state, we can put together a small Todo application. A Component Using External Plugins React is flexible and provides hooks that allow you to interface with other libraries and frameworks. Input Type some *markdown* here! Output
Workless - A classy HTML5, CSS3 framework 12 Mac Apps for Running a Freelance Business Running a freelance business requires you to be an expert at everything – from communicating with clients to meticulously tracking your time and expenses. Doing all this manually can be dramatically time consuming, and it’s easy to make mistakes – nobody is perfect. Fortunately there are a range of Mac applications which can lend a hand and assist in the day to day running and organizing of your business. This overview will focus on two key areas: Invoicing, Accounting & Time Tracking – Tools to ensure that you’re on top of finances and invoicing, whilst devoting most of your time to work you enjoyOrganization & Utilities – Applications for managing thoughts, research and speeding up the day-to-day use of your Mac Invoicing, Accounting & Time Tracking Billings 3 Billings Billings allows you to manage clients, projects and time within a simple and well integrated interface. Price: $39.99 Requires: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later Developer: Market Circle Money Money On The Job On The Job Billable Billable
715 Awesomely Simple and Free CSS Layouts Frustrated with the quality of free CSS templates online but aren’t quite to the level of building your own? Tired of spending hours trying to customize lame pre-fab designs? Today we bring you over seven hundred freely downloadable CSS templates that focus on providing you with only a basic layout to build upon. Who Are These For? Many of you have been in the design game for years but are only now just beginning to create websites and code them by hand. However, the biggest problem that many new developers come across can simply be to get their basic layout to work in CSS. The simple downloadable layouts below will provide you with a rock solid foundation on which to build your sites and provide great examples for learning how to create your own. Why Not Full Templates? If you run a quick Google search for free CSS templates, you’ll find a million. I think it’s much more useful to download a few super basic CSS layouts that are as simple as possible. Primary CSS: 22 Layouts “No CSS hacks.
10 Most Sought-after Skills in Web Development In a time of economic crisis, web developers and freelancers everywhere have started chewing their fingernails. However, no matter how bad the economy worsens, there will always be work in certain booming fields of web development. As the moderator of the Freelance Switch job board, there are certain types of jobs that are constantly in demand. Here are the 10 skills that are or will be in highest demand for developers. If you are proficient in these skills, you'll be in a great position to find work and weather any economic downturn. 1. It seems that frameworks are one of the next big things. 2. Widgets have changed how web development has been done in the past couple of years. Widget development requires knowing Javascript and/or flash, not to mention knowledge of the regular language that the parent site is built in. 3. Designers and developers can always find work creating or customizing a CMS theme. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. iPhone applications 9. 10. Flash animation can do a lot for a website.
Showing Product Information With CSS3 3D Transform There are many ways on showing product information, for example when hover the product image, the product information is sliding above or even using pop up. In this tutorial I’m going to share how to show our product information with cube style using CSS3 3D Transform. The Result Before talking about the technique following image is the result we want to achieve, the product image is visible while the product information is hidden. When user hovering the item both of them will rotate vertically to up direction making the product information visible and the image hidden, looks like a rotating cube. The Technique The technique we will use for creating the cube is from previous technique we’ve done before (see : Creating “Next Level” Search Form Using jQuery & CSS3) There are two elements, front side and bottom side, front is product image and product information is bottom side. The Markup & Styling I’m using all images from Shopify App Store for product image. The result : Finish
10 Social Networks for Developers Though the stereotipical developer might be a socially awkward geek, developers are among the most active users of social networks. They usually prefer sites that are community-driven and focus on quality content. Social networks are a great place for developers to learn from colleages, contact clients, find solution to problems and resources, and improve their own skills.In this post we compiled 10 of the most used and useful social networks for developers. There are other lots of other great ones out there, so feel free to share your favorites in the comment section. HTML5 Rocks HTML5 Rocks is an open source project from Google. Bettercodes is an open source community for developers to share their ideas and turn them into code that works.