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Displacement Water – Photoshop Tutorial

February 9th, 2009 Gertjan No comments
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Creating a realistic water surface in Photoshop is quite a challenge because it is the distorted reflection of the surroundings that makes the water look liquid. The displace filter is an excellent tool for making this distortion. The displace filter “shifts pixels” in an image according to the brightness values of a displacement map.
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20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know

February 5th, 2009 Gertjan No comments

Take a look at the following 20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know, you might learn something from it.

There are a few special techniques or effects that can spice up just about any web page. These are the top 20 Ajax effects that every web developer should know. They’re essential parts of any web developer’s toolbox. If you haven’t seen them yet, you no doubt will in your future web development endeavors.

The 20 effects are:

  1. TextboxList meets Autocompletion
  2. Ajax IM
  3. LiveValidation
  4. Inline Editing
  5. Ajax Upload
  6. Fancy Upload
  7. ClickHeat Clicks Heatmap
  8. Ajax Mail Form
  9. Ajax Directory Manager
  10. Ajax Email Client
  11. Improve Form Usability with Auto Messages
  12. qGallery
  13. Ajax Star Rating
  14. CakePHP Ajax Form
  15. Amberjack Site Tours
  16. Prototype UI
  17. JCrop
  18. jQuery Auto-tabbing Plugin
  19. Sort Table Rows with Ajax
  20. DrasticMap

Link: 20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know

Zend Framework: Getting Started Screencasts

February 3rd, 2009 Gertjan No comments

Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License. Zend Framework—often referred to as ZF—is developed with the goal of simplifying web development while promoting best practices in the PHP developer community. Read more…

How to see hidden files in Windows

February 3rd, 2009 Gertjan No comments

Introduction

By following the steps below for each version of Windows you will be able to change the operating systems behavior so that you can see hidden and protected files. In this way you will have full control over your files.

  1. Intro
  2. Windows 95
  3. Windows 98
  4. Windows ME
  5. Windows NT
  6. Windows 2000
  7. Windows XP
  8. Windows Vista

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Complete advanced login member system – PHP tutorial

January 11th, 2008 Gertjan 227 comments

In this advanced tutorial i will teach you the steps required to create a custom build login/member system with PHP.

The system itself ofcourse has alot of room for improvements, also, it’s very easily expandable, i’ve chosen to work in a modular way, so that if you change something you only have to change it in 1 file. I’ve done this by using functions, this script is a good example of the real power of PHP.

Features:

  • Registration
  • Lost password
  • Various checks on passwords and usernames
  • users can change their password
  • Passwords are stored in a database with a seed added to it and they have sha1 encryption
  • Easy to adjust & use

Requirements:

  • Mysql database
  • a php & mysql enabled host
  • php mail() enabled host
  • ftp access to your website

Overview

Steps:

  1. Creating the mysql table
  2. Creating a db_connect.inc.php file
  3. Creating the header.php file
  4. Creating the footer.php file
  5. Creating the index.php file
  6. Creating the login.php file
  7. Creating the logout.php file
  8. Creating a function.inc.php file
  9. Creating the mail.functions.inc.php file
  10. Creating the display.functions.inc.php file
  11. Creating the login.functions.inc.php file
  12. Creating the user.functions.inc.php file
  13. Creating the validation.functions.inc.php file
  14. Creating the lostpassword.php file
  15. Creating the changepassword.php file
  16. Creating the register.php file
  17. Creating the activate.php file

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Sending emails with php – php tutorial

December 27th, 2007 Gertjan 14 comments

In this tutorial, we’ll see how the PHP server-side scripting language can be used to send email, and explore how to send complex message types such as HTML email or emails with file attachments.

For convenience we will be using PHPMailer in this tutorial.
PHPMailer is a class for PHP that provides a package of functions to send email. The two primary features are sending HTML Email and e-mails with attachments. PHPMailer is an efficient way to send e-mail within PHP.

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Export Mysql data to CSV – PHP tutorial

December 16th, 2007 Gertjan 79 comments

Want to export your Mysql data to a CSV(comma seperated value) file? In this tutorial i will show you how to export your data from Mysql into a CSV file.

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