Barcode generator for PHP
This tutorial is being updated to the latest version of Barcode Generator. Whilst fiddling around with QR Codes, I came…
Codepen & JSFiddle
Codepen & JSFiddle are incredibly useful online tools to test (or fiddle with) your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code. You…
PHP e-mail address validation
Here are the results of an exercise in e-mail validation using two different PHP options, namely PHP's filter_var() and PHP's…
Upload PDF script
This script was a quick hack to allow a PDF to be uploaded to replace an outdated one on a…
Complex SQL query using SUM and GROUP BY
I got this question as part of a skills evaluation test. It requires a query to aggregate data from 2…
Type-ahead look-up jQuery AJAX demo
This was one of my first jQuery experiments. jQuery AJAX requests to a PHP/MySQL back-end populate the drop-down of the…
Search a multi-dimensional array for a value and return a breadcrumb-like trail using PHP
This one had me stumped! Working with arrays is something that every developer must be comfortable with. Fortunately, PHP has…
Text file upload and search highlight utility with PHP and jQuery
This was my second pass at an assignment given to me as part of a job interview. I decided to…
Datatables jQuery plug-in
I used the Datatables jQuery plug-in extensively in a work project. It is pretty easy to implement and offers useful…