I’m going to show you how to automatically update the copyright year of your website without the use of PHP. I have been seeing a lot of posts about, how to update the copyright notice of your website using PHP’s date() function. What about those people whose websites are not PHP Diven?
Well, [...]

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I wanted to implement the Contactable jQuery Plug-in to one of my website, but when I tested it on Internet Explorer, it was not behaving the same as Firefox or Google Chrome. Here is how I managed to fix this issue for both IE7 and IE8.

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Cal Evans has been kind enough to provide the PHP World with a guide to migrating to PHP 5.3, which can be found in the TechPortal.
Make sure to read the Release Announcement as you familiarize yourself with the new features, and improvements.

As PHP developers download and start testing the biggest change to the language [...]

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It is finally here. PHP 5.3 has been released and like we mentioned before (PHP Namespaces Is Not Years Away, Now In PHP 5.3). It supports Namespaces.

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This article is outdated, for more information on PHP Namespaces please check the PHP Manual.
Namespaces have been around for quite a while in Object Oriented programming with languages such Java. Basically, for those of you who have not used them, it means that you can create a context or package for a set of variables, [...]

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Joe Lencioni over at Shifting Pixel, has written a post about the easy to use image resizing script. It’s a really simple script that you use by specifying the parameters in the src part of the img tag.
The major advantage of this script is that it allows me to resize and crop any image [...]

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Hasin Hayder from Developer Tutorials wrote this neat post about using debug_backtrace. It could help you debug your code more efficiently and save you hours of dumping variables and testing functions, not to mention saving you from pulling your hair out. I myself used it a couple of times when writing class [...]

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Linux Only (sort of): I once was a fan of heavy development environments such as Eclipse or Zend Studio, but not anymore. Don’t get me wrong. They are very powerful, but in a way too powerful, or rather, too heavy. PHP is a scripting language, likewise, a PHP editor should be fast and easy to [...]

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Every web developer, no matter what language you use should know the workings of a version control system. The one I most often use when working on projects is Subversion, aka SVN. SVN not only helps me keep my code organized, it also allows for others that are working with me to know [...]

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The people over at Six Revisions have came up with a cool and practical list of 9 uses for Firefox’s Web Developer Extension. I myself use it almost everytime while working on a project, most of the things I use it for are on this list, and I found a few new things like the auto [...]

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