Parse YouTube URLs With PHP

Here’s a nice PHP snippet that some of you might find useful with regards to information on YouTube videos. It’s a code that I came across over at PHPZAG that will parse the various types of YouTube URLs and then returning their embed iframe. <?php function parseYoutubeURL($link, $width=430, $height=230){ $final = ‘<iframe width=”‘.$width.‘” height=”‘.$height.‘” src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/{code}” [...]

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Creating a Cool Unusual Text Effect

Created by the guys at Photoshop Star, this tutorial shows you how you can make a cool unusual 3D-like text effect using some of the tools in Photoshop. It’s so simple that rookies can easily make it work. For this text, Familian font was used. The tools you’re going to need are Gradient Tool, Radial [...]

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Creating A Cool Post Date Icon Using CSS

Our featured tutorial for today is from Chris Spooner of LINE25, and what it’s about is recreating that classic and attractive calendar (or date) icon which I’m pretty sure is quite familiar to everyone; we usually see it on various user interfaces to represent an organizer app or widget. But in this tutorial,,you’re going to [...]

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Unzip Uploaded Files On Server Using PHP

Web designers and developers know that compressing files into one single archive file such as a ZIP file is always a necessity when it comes to uploading huge amount of files onto a server, which means having to unzip the file once it has been uploaded. People have tried to come up with ways to [...]

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Building A Tumbleblog With WordPress

There’s this interesting article and tutorial written by Brian Gardner that I thought I’d feature in today’s post. It’s about building a Tumblr-style blog with WordPress. In it he also points out the reason why you might want to try it – or rather, should do it. Since the release of version 3.1, WordPress has [...]

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Resizing Image In PHP

Here’s a great tutorial from wpwidgets by Agnis that teaches you how you can display an image on your site in various thumbnail sizes without having to produce multiple files to represent each. Let’s say you have a line of socks that you want to sell online and you want to have the very same [...]

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How To Disable “Seen” In Facebook Chat

If you chat a lot with your friends at Facebook then you might have already noticed the new update they implemented to their chat system, but in case you haven’t, read on. The update I’m referring to is called the “Seen” feature. Basically it’s a feature that lets the sender of a chat or private [...]

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Cubism.js - Time Series Visualization Chart

Cubism.js is a great D3 plugin developed by Mike Bostock for displaying time series in real-time. With Cubism, you’ll be able to create better real-time dashboards, pulling data from various sources. In terms of flexibility, Cubism.js is highly customizable via CSS and JavaScript, and it also lets you add new chart types and modes of [...]

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jQuery Dynamic Grid: XML Gallery

Today’s featured jQuery plugin is called the Dynamic Grid: XML Gallery from Nikolay Dyankov. It’s a plugin that lets you create an image gallery slider that is highly customizable, and by customizable I mean not only can you change the animation but also the layout (no. of rows & columns), scroll speed, padding, etc. It [...]

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Installing Node.js Packages And Ruby Gems In Virtualenv

When you’re using Python’s virtualenv in your project, there might come a time when you’re going to be required to use libraries in other languages. When that happens, chances are you might want to have them installed in your virtual environment as well. This tutorial from 2general will show you how to do just that [...]

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