Archive for May, 2010

So in a nutshell, what is the difference between PHP 5 and CRUD?

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Hi,

Sometimes I post questions that are put to me by people. This is a beginners question, so you experienced nerds will want to move on. Nonetheless, I am sure there are a few debutant PHP programmers who will find this useful.

The question:

So in a nutshell, what is the difference between PHP 5 and CRUD?

PHP5 is just a version of PHP. Whereas CRUD is short for a series of PHP+MySQL operations/interactions:

- Create
- Read
- Update
- Delete

…These are the core operations that can be preformed on a database. CRUD is so important in fact, that we just released a mini video series on PHP CRUD that can now be found in the Killersites University … our video tutorial subscription service.

Stefan.

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Getting Started with iPhone and iPad Development

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Hi,

In our continued efforts to make programming approachable (even for the non nerd,) I got my brother (Richard Mischook) to write a quick article/tutorial introducing iPhone and iPad development – he’s busy build an iPhone application as I write.

The goal of this article is to help you understand what you need to know and what tools you have available, when it comes to creating software/web apps for the iPhone and iPad.

Stefan Mischook

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Introduction

The introduction of the iPhone by Apple a few years back caused a lot of excitement among both consumers and developers. The iPhone was arguably the first mobile device that made both mobile computing and web surfing practical. The iPad (which runs on iPhone OS) has been met with skepticism in some quarters. But so far it appears to be selling well and attracting a lot of interest from content creators.

Apple originally intended that the main source of third-party applications for the iPhone would be web applications, and there are of course many of these. But something funny happened when Apple released the iPhone SDK and an App Store to go with it – people came. Developers developed and consumers consumed.

Read the rest of this article on iPhone and iPad development.

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How to build a log in system with PHP.

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Hi,

I just wanted to announce that we will be releasing a PHP log in system video tutorial within a few days.

Like all our videos, as you learn to build the project at hand, you will be secretly taught reusable PHP techniques and even some dreaded PHP nerd theory! Don’t worry though, the nerd theory will be woven into the videos, so you won’t even notice it seeping into your brain.

Many of the videos will be released on this blog for free, but the whole course (and source files) will only be available to Killersites University subscribers or as part of our upcoming complete web developer training package.

… Yes, a shameless plug but nerds need to eat too (and play video games) so we have so charge you guys a little sometimes!

Follow this blog to keep in touch.

Stefan Mischook
www.killerphp.com

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PHP Pagination Video Tutorial

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

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Hi,

We just released a couple of new videos at Killersites University:

These two videos show how to modify the view.php file we created earlier in Part 1 of the ‘CRUD Basics with MySQLi & PHP‘ series to add basic pagination. This functionality is often required for large data sets, providing a better user experience by splitting up a long list of records into multiple pages. These videos briefly introduce the MySQLi data_seek() function, used to pull specific records from the database.

Free samples will be coming out soon.

Stefan Mischook
www.killerphp.com

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New PHP CRUD Video Tutorial

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

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Hi,

In our ongoing effort to provide top quality screencasts authored by working web designers and web programmers (that means practical training) … we just released a new set of videos on PHP CRUD.

The official summary:

This is a six part series that covers how to create a basic application that creates, reads, updates and deletes records (often called CRUD) from a MySQL database using MySQLi. MySQLi helps prevent SQL injection, a common security issue. Understanding how to use a MySQL database and work with database records is an essential skill for beginning web developers.

You can find these videos in our growing collection of video training tutorials at Killersites University.

I will be releasing several free samples from this (and other series) as soon as I can find the time – busy these days watching TV.

:)

We have several other PHP and programming related video in Killersites University .. I just haven’t had time to blog about them. More to come soon.

Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com

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