This is a simple tutorial on how to get prices from amazon with their Web services SDK. First you need an amazon SDK account, hop on over here if you haven’t gotten one already. (more…)

In this tutorial I will show you how you can create an object oriented database abstraction class for MySQL database. Besides the basic functions this manager class can summarize total time spent with db connection and query execution and counts how many query were executed. (more…)

Before the release of PHP5 if one wanted to manipulate images by applying filters, you’d have to either use an ImageMagick extension or create complicated matrices which you would then use the imageconvolution function.
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In this tutorial I’ll show you a simple method to pass any HTML form through AJAX without the need to hard code all form fields into the JavaScript or Server Side Script. (more…)

In this tutorial I will show you how to resize an image with PHP. You can use this function in your own image gallery implementation or in any other cases when you need to create a thumbnail from your image. (more…)

You might have been in a situation before where you had a list of items in your database that needed to be output in a specific order. These items could be anything: perhaps a listing of your favourite movies or your favourite books. (more…)

The next step in building this application is to provide the administrator with an easy way to add and delete questions and answers from the MySQL database. (more…)

It’s a polling system for a web site, one which allows you to quickly measure what your visitors think about controversial issues (Kerry versus Bush, to-mah-to versus to-mae-to, that kind of thing). (more…)

You want make sure an attacker can’t access another user’s session. The solution is to allow passing of session IDs via cookies only, and generate an additional session token that is passed via URLs. (more…)