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Category Archives: Code Share
Generating a Leaderboard with Ranking for MySQL
Using MySQL derived queries to generate a fully functional leaderboard. Continue reading
Track Social Widget Events Using Google Analytics
There is a time when you are building your website that will need to track a users social share activity. Whether it be a Google Analytics event or you just want to be able to increment a count in your database. Continue reading
Filed Under: Code Share, Events, Social
Retrieving a YouTube video id from Embed Code using Javascript and PHP
I have been working on a project and came across a feature in my website that would need to take YouTube embed code or even a url and extract the video id for storage in a database. Continue reading
Filed Under: Blog, Code Share
Tags: embed, javascript, php, regexp, regular expressions, video id, YouTube
Sanitising variables to avoid XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attacks using PHP
Shows a developer how to handle their variables safely and securely using a helpful validation script. Continue reading
Using the Amazon S3 Service and PHP
Takes you through how to manipulate and transfer image files to the Amazon S3 service without the need to write files to your server. Continue reading
Filed Under: Blog, Code Share, Media
Tags: amazon, amazon web services, php, s3, simple storage service
Emulating Facebook’s Dialogue Using Jquery UI Dialogues
When working on applications for Facebook one thing that I really wanted to be able to do is to have more control over the javascript dialogues to display our content to the user. Continue reading
Integrating Twitter search into your WordPress blog
Recently we had to add a Twitter stream to one of our Facebook tabs for a campaign. I thought I would share with you php code that uses a short code in your Wordpress post and dynamically creates a twitter search panel based on a search term you specify. Continue reading
Image Resizing With PHP – EXIF Orientation Fix
I have been working on a project recently that has incorporated an upload mechanic for images uploaded to our website. The images are then resized into a dimension box that I pass to a function. This then builds out these images from the original uploaded. Continue reading
Extending Ian Selby’s RESTful API in PHP – Part 2
This blog post follows on from Extending Ian Selby’s RESTful API in PHP – Part 1 and will talk about how to add security to your selected API calls. Continue reading
Extending Ian Selby’s RESTful API in PHP – Part 1
On a recent project which can be found here I was tasked to build an API so that a series of applications could make calls and log achievements into a centralised database from several locations. Continue reading