http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com All things web development Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:40:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unfortunately, a lot of PHP code written today is procedural spagetti code. For smaller applications it may be okay, but larger applications we need to make use of classes. Classes allow you to make new object variables that can perform all the functionality of the class. Take a look at an ... http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com/writing-solid-php-code-3-avoid-the-spaghetti/ Having a consistent style makes your PHP code more readable and maintainable. Even in projects where you are the only programmer, once the project progresses to a certain size it can become difficult to maintain. Variable Names Variable names should be very descriptive. They should give anyone that is not familiar with ... http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com/writing-solid-php-code-2-naming-and-style/ This is the first in a multiple part series on writing solid PHP code. By solid I mean fast, efficient, maintainable and secure code. This first article deals with error handling. Error handling can stop problems in your application early in their tracks and take appropriate action. Error handling has the ... http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com/writing-solid-php-code-1-error-handling/ I have just added a new knowledge base. You can see the link to it on the top menu or here. I will be continuously adding answers over time. I have also added functionality to ask your own questions, just click on a topic and ask the question at the bottom ... http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com/new-knowledge-base/ This tutorial describes how to create a voting system with stars like below. We assume you have a web server that can run php scripts, a MySQL database, and a browser with javascript enabled. function HoverStars(item, star) { var starCount; for (starCount=1; starCount http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com/how-to-create-an-ajax-based-voting-system/ This guide assumes you have already setup a website running on an Apache based webserver. If you are using IIS you will need a third party plugin such as IIS Rewrite. Often times you may want to redirect links from your site as opposed to linking directly. This has a few ... http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com/how-to-use-htaccess-to-easily-mask-links/ Icons are a great way to establish an identity for your website. On nearly all browser, when you set an icon for your site it will appear next to your site's URL and next to a bookmark. Icons are small (16x16) graphics files saved with the extension .ico. They were first ... http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com/creating-icons-for-your-site/ Yongfook has an interesting article titled "10 Dirt Little Web Development Tricks." Its an entertaining short list of tricks that can help make your life a little easier and more productive. One of my favorites on the list is to leave off the trailing ?> in php files. Yongfook truly lives a ... http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com/10-dirty-little-web-development-tricks/ Everyone knows that iPhone apps are big business. The popularity of the iPhone combined with the ease of the Apple app store has created a booming market for developers. One developer has done quite well, raking in nearly $10,000 a day, with his popular iPhone fart app. Read the full store here. No ... http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com/194/ EJ Web Development has come a long way in a short time. My vision is to create a website that provides information on all aspects of web development. Here are some of my goals for the site in 2009: Consistency I want to average around 5 posts a week. Keeping the content flowing ... http://www.ejwebdevelopment.com/goals-for-ej-web-development-in-2009/