Archive for 'Tutorials'

How to setup svn with remote working copy – my big question

Everybody know SVN and “everybody” is using it. No doubt SVN is one of the best things that happend in the last time. but for a web developer, svn can be a little frustrating – at least for me.
Let me explain:
I am on a mac, a G4 one,so I cannot afford a MAMP [...]

How to load ioncube loader without root access

Some of coders are doing a living from selling php scripts. Nothing new here. But to protect themselves from piracy they need to encode the php code, to prevent steal, unauthorized usage and so on.
This can be accomplished using various encoders, some strong , some weak that will give them a specific amount of security, [...]

Os X – how to create links to scripts for dock or desktop

As I promised in the previous post, I will show you how to add any script or program run normally from command line to dock or desktop and run as any other application.
For this we will use Platypus.
Platypus “can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts. Supports shell [...]

How to create a product viewer using mooZoom

There are cases when we need to show a zoomed image of a product ( or something else ), that require to be as much as user friendly as possible. One of the cases are e-commerce sites that use high quality images for high impact over the client’s mind (jewelery for example).
In this case [...]

Create window-like element with mootools

We continue our serie related to mootools with a tutorial that shows us how to build a window-like element on our page, that can be resized and moved. Based on previous tutorials, we will will create first the html and apply some js code to it, to obtain what we want. This tutorial is a [...]

A beginner’s mootools – create draggable and resizable elements

The today tutorial will try to explain how to make an element draggable or resizable – or even both in the same time, using the MooTools framework. To accomplish this we’ll make use of two functions existent in mootools: makeDraggable() and makeResizable().
This is very simple.We simply select the element we want to be resizable [...]

Textmate tricks- open ftp files in tabs,keybindings changes and codebrowser

After searching through editors for Os X, that can go as close as possible to Quanta, my former editor in linux, before I switched to mac, and not founding anything close – or better said close to my habits – I finished choosing 3 editors – Coda, skEdit, and TextMate.
Coda is [...]

A beginner’s mootools – select and create elements

In previous tutorial we learned how to add events to elements in webpage. In this one we will learn how to select elements – or better said how to access an element from page, and how to create new elements in page.
In mootools we have two functions that select an element:
function $ – [...]

A beginner’s mootools – add events

We will try to make a little set of tutorials how to use mootools framework for almost absolute beginners. You will need to know basic javascript. The documentation for mootools framework is a little hard to understand and requires more advanced javascript knowledges.
But…… every webdesigner (and of course beginners first) wants a hassle free [...]

php “included” menu styling

Some times , when we have a pretty big amount of pages on a site, but don’t need or want to use a CMS, we take advantage of PHP and split the page layout in more includes like:header.phpcontent.phpfooter.phpso we do not need to write the same content ( or copy paste ) [...]