As we all know PHP stands for “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor” which was initially called as “Personal Home Page” designed by Rasmus Lerdorf. From last few years it has penetrated in the market like a Virus. There are various debates done on PHP as compared to other scripting languages like ASP.net, etc..

There are tools that make our lives much easier. However, finding those obscure time-savers which would save time in every single project isn’t easy and requires a lot of time. At Smashing Magazine, we are regularly looking for such useful tools, gather them, review them and eventually prepare for a truly smashing round-up. Such posts are quite lengthy and extensive, but they are always worth checking out.

So, your client uploaded the image into your newly, freshly developed CMS and then called you to yell about distorted image, or image that just does not look good?

Logic Behind The Code Almost all the wordpress themes, as a norm, save two thumbnail images along with the original image. In the wordpress admin section there is a Settings section which contains the Media section.

Smarty is a PHP-based templating engine/framework. It allows you to further separate your business logic from its visualization, by removing as much PHP code as possible away from your views. Some developers and frameworks prefer not to use a templating engine, others do prefer them to using plain PHP in your views. Both points of view can be argued, and in the end, it?s mostly a matter of taste. Anyway, it?s never a bad idea [...]

Mozilla Firefox has always been the first and foremost choice of the internet users. Due to this the development community of Mozilla always try to come up with things that are useful for the users to work with. One of the best things about the Mozilla firefox Add-ons is the ease of use. You can have the add-on do whatever browser could do. For web designers and developers the amount of time saved and information [...]

Hi, here I am posting 16 most commonly used php chat modules. They are useful for web developers. Few of them are so simple that even a lay man can install them.

Hi, here I am posting code snippet of a simple calculator which performs basic functions like add, subtract, divide, multiply of two numbers and also square, square root and cube of a number. No database is used for creating this calculator. A class named “calc” is defined in this which has the above said methods and when they are called the calculation is done according to them. It is really helpful for learning purpose. This [...]