This one’s for all you Wordpressers out there. I came across this problem recently and thought I’d share the solution.
For a few days, in my Wordpress installation, when I clicked on the “one click upgrade” link on the plugins page to upgrade plugins, I was getting the following error message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pclzip…
I [...]

If you work with MySQL and PHPMyAdmin regularlly, you will have no doubt seen the import feature in PHPMyAdmin. Basically this feature allows you to import a MySQL dump file straight into your database, similar to restoring a backup etc.
There is a limit set by PHPMyAdmin of 2Mb though, so you can’t import files over [...]

Sometimes we need a quick, reliable way to be able to strip certain HTML tags from a string. The Regular Expression engine (RegExp) built into ASP is ideal for this purpose.
Real World Example
We were building a newsletter system into our FindLocalVehicles.co.uk website. The website has daily motoring news as well as the vehicles for sale [...]

If your website or blog runs on Wordpress or any other popular blog platform, then you probably already have the built-in ability to “ping” services such as Pingomatic and Google Blog Search. However, if like me you have developed a website or application from scratch using a custom platform, then you will need to build [...]

I get a lot of search queries of this nature with people seemingly trying to find out how you create a tiled background for your website.
I covered creating a tiled diagonal background in another post, but this one is even easier.
Take a look at the Squid Fingers website. At the time of writing, they have [...]

Moving on from my previous tutorial on how to create the diagonal stripe background, Fabio posted an excellent website that does all the hard work for you. All you need to do is move a few sliders to set colours, stripe width and shadow etc and click on a download link!
Here’s a screen-shot of this [...]

Using Ajax has become very popular over the last year or so and this tutorial list is an excellent place to start learning about Ajax and its uses.
The list includes examples such as:

Star ratings (for articles etc)
Contact forms
Tabbed content
Drag-able boxes
Instant Messaging client
Plus many more

I especially like the tabbed content one and I have implemented [...]

In this day and age of standards based design and web accessibility guidelines etc, it’s always a nice thing to get your websites to validate. Depending on which doc type you choose depends on how much work you have to do to get your site to validate.
One thing I have had to do recently was [...]

Going back to my original post on the catfish makeover, I was contacted about the cookie modification that I made to the script.
Basically, what I did was on the “close” link in the catfish popup, I added the code to put a cookie on the visitors machine. Then on the code that actually launches the [...]

You’ve all seen the cool websites that have an excellent “depth” feel to the page. Well here’s one technique to achieve this effect.
This is what you will have at the end of this tutorial:

Firstly, open a blank canvas and draw a gradient from top to bottom. I chose dark blue with light at the top [...]