Tutorial Machine

How To Make A Photo Grungy In GIMP

The Machine — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:11:40 +0000

A Submission from Mike for learning how to make a photo grungy by using GIMP.

Getting Stock Quote

The Machine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:51:43 +0000

If you want to display the actual stock quote on your own site then Yahoo finance pages are a good source. You can select the company you need and visit the URL. We will use this information to fetch the html code of the page and find, cut and paste the necessary part…

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Trackbacks w/ Google Blog Search & Zend Feed

The Machine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:49:13 +0000

So Google Blog Search it is then. When you use the search you have the option of subscribing to it through an RSS feed. I did a link:url search and just copied the resultant feed URL…

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Getting Remote Webpage Info Using PHP

The Machine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:47:21 +0000

If you run any website that accepts submitted links, be it a tutorial website, a directory or a bookmarking site, you may find it useful to automatically retrieve information about a URL. Wouldn’t it be nice if you ran a web directory and you could bring up the title, keywords and description of a URL without the user having to enter it? This tutorial shows you how this can be achieved via PHP.

Eclipse Europa Web Development Using Java, PHP & Radrails Part 2

The Machine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:46:01 +0000

This is Part 2 of a three-part tutorial series on developing Web applications with Eclipse. So far, we’ve seen how easy it is to develop Web applications in the Java language using the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers. The Java EE edition is really just a collection of plug-ins running on the Eclipse Platform. In this tutorial, we’ll see how to develop PHP applications using a different set of Eclipse plug-ins, collectively known as the PHP Development Toolkit (PDT). We’ll also see a reprise of some features in the Java EE Edition that are also part of the PDT…

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Simple PHP Class For Parsing Markup

The Machine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:44:06 +0000

It’s a simple class that wraps PHP’s various regex functions in a fluent interface. It’s a far cry from the fluent strings and arrays tutorial in complexity…

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Parsing w/ Zend HTTP Client

The Machine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:42:50 +0000

I need to recap today’s adventures in parsing land, I’m currently writing a lot of different parsers that are retrieving information from various pages, sometimes I’m lucky and the info I want is available as CSV or XML most often not…

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Website Status Checker

The Machine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:41:35 +0000

We now have the beginning of our PHP file. That’s the first step done; now we need to move on to the error checking. This is done so that we can find out whether we should process the input data, or ask for it…

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Load Time

The Machine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:40:13 +0000

This tutorial will demonstrate how to check how long your server is taking to generate content to the user’s web browser. By running this on your website, you will be able to see which pages are taking longer than others to load – a must for any website developer!…

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Retrieving XML w/ cURL & Cimple Xperl

The Machine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:39:09 +0000

PHP 5 introduces SimpleXML and its a perfect name as parsing XML data is truly simple. In this tutorial we’ll be using curl to retrieve the XML data from a remote web server. We’re going to create a class to connect to the remote web server and pass POST data to the server and based on the POST…

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