Ever wanted an all purpose, easy to use method of resizing your images in PHP? Well that’s what PHP classes are for – reusable pieces of functionality that we call to do the dirty work behind the scenes. We’re going to learn how to create our own class that will be well constructed, as well as expandable. Resizing should be easy. How easy? How about three steps!
A cheat sheet is a printable guide of a particular programming language, software or framework. A web designer spends most of his design time to move around different softwares environment and it becomes really hard to memorize the shortcuts and hot keys for each environment. Hence, cheat sheets provide great help for them. In this article, we present 30 essential cheat sheets for the most popular web based technologies.
Max’s AJAX file uploader is a simple and easy to use script, which allows you to upload files to your webserver without reloading the current page. During the upload an animated progress bar is shown. The server side is written in PHP.
Despite what you may think, sending mail is a widely used practice in most scripts. Some use other methods, but the simple PHP mail() function is safe, reliable, easy to use and very useful. Below we’ll show you step-by-step different ways to use the mail() function. Including sending a basic e-mail with sender, receiver, subject and body, an e-mail with a few receivers and then a full blown example with headers, HTML e-mail and the works.
Max’s Contact Form is a modern but simple PHP script using object oriented design. Installation and integration is very easy. No database is required. You can define your own fields easily as well. The content of the form will be mailed to you. The script uses CSS so changing the style is very simple. An example code is attached to the installation package.
