Ajax requests using jQuery and PHP

Our last tutorial about the flickr API was an example on how-to search the flickr photo database for images using some short PHP code. This time we will use parts from the past tutorial together with some jQuery Ajax requests to show our photo search result without reloading the web page.

jQuery’s Ajax implementation
One of the [...]

jQuery form plugin and PHP file uploads

The past months I used the jQuery form plugin in several projects. Most forms were contact or feedback forms and some of them did a file upload as well. In a previous tutorial we explained how-to create a sign-up form for MailChimp. This sign-up form is a great example to use the jQuery form plugin [...]

Useful Plugins for your bbpress Forum

bbpress is a great peace of software and is based on the code from Wordpress. Since the core version is very basic you need some plugins to change bbpress into a mature forum. This article, written by a experienced bbpress user, gives advice which plugins are very powerful and useful for most bbpress user.

Upload images for usage in TinyMCE

TinyMCE is a great online WYSIWYG editor which is used for a lot of projects, for example this Wordpress blog application (the content backend). I use TinyMCE for custom projects too. TinyMCE is free, generates good HTML code and the interface is easy to learn even for non-webmaster.
The project is open source and the developer [...]

Database Management with phpMyAdmin

This is part one of the quick review of the book “Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management” and the phpMyAdmin software.
This article/review is not just another review about phpMyAdmin, but more some information about features I haven’t used during the last years of PHP/MySQL web development.
About phpMyAdmin
PMA is a full featured tool to administrate [...]