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MySQL video tutorials coming out.

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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Hi,

I haven’t been working on killerphp for a little while because of work on other websites in the killersites network … OK, and other things too.

… Xbox can take up a lot of time!!

What’s news?

Well, we have a whole slew of advanced MySQL videos coming out within a week. We will be covering some more advanced topics not covered in our PHP basics video course.

As usual, many of the videos will be posted here for free and many others will be available via our video tutorial subscription service and also as a complete stand-alone screencast course for download or on DVD.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook
www.killerphp.com

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Killersites University – Video Library

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

killersites university logo

Hi,

I’ve been out of the picture for a little while, mainly because we’ve been busy with our new video tutorial subscription service.

Some PHP nerd details:

We built the web application from scratch using a basic MVC model with straightforward database work – no ORM was required for such a simple project.

The most time consuming aspect of this project was getting the UI to look good and work well – jQuery came in handy once again.

Anyway, you will find most of our PHP tutorials in there … and soon, a bunch of new video tutorials we are working on now.

The official announcement:

After a couple of months of hard work, we finally got the new video tutorial subscription system up and running.

About the University:

The Killersites University is a subscription based service that gives you total access to our GROWING collection of web design and web design related training videos. Not just a collection of tips and tricks videos, we provide complete video courses on popular subjects like:

* HTML
* CSS
* Dreamweaver
* PHP
* Javascript
* and much more

You can learn more about it here:

http://www.killersites.com/university/

What’s next?

Now that we have the University up and running, we will be able to focus a lot more time on new videos. Subscribe to the RSS feed or one of my newsletters to keep up-to-date.

Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com

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Merry Xmas from Stefan.

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Hi,

I just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays and a merry xmas – if applicable.

:)

In other news .. well, we’ve been working hard on stuff and should have a bunch of new videos in January.

Thanks,
Stefan Mischook

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New Javascript Basics Video Tutorial Course Released!

Monday, October 5th, 2009

php video

PHP nerds,

I’m back … and ready to shamelessly promote!

… I’m quickly settling into my new place (the loft life is over after a decade!) and so time is freeing up for newsletters, videos and articles.

In my continued attempts to transform you guys from know-nothing-wannabe’s, to full fledge web programming guru nerds, I’ve release a new set of video tutorials on Javascript … a complementary language to PHP in the web programming world.

While PHP handily handles the backend/server-side of the web programming equation, Javascript is the language that is used to broker the communication between the browser and PHP … when it comes to all those fancy Ajax effects.

.. Think Google maps, modern blogs, youtube comment functionality etc ..

Anyway, as usual, you can try before you buy by watching a bunch of free sample videos from the course:

http://www.killerjavascript.com/videos/

If you have any questions, you know how to reach me.

PS: I have a whole bunch of free and NEW advanced PHP videos coming out very soon – say a week.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook
www.killerphp.com

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I’m back bearing the gift of Javascript.

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

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Hi,

I’ve been away for a little while and I just haven’t had the time to post anything new to the blog. OK, it is probably more of a question of pure laziness on my part I admit. But I’m back and hopefully will have some interesting new PHP stuff for you guys very soon.

In the meantime, I just started releasing a new series of videos on beginners Javascript. Like the PHP basics videos, I am targeting beginners to Javascript in this new series.

There are a few differences about these videos when compared to my PHP videos:

  1. I am using a larger capture size 800×600 – the videos dimensions are bigger.
  2. I am using a new clearer mic. The same mic that Howard Stern uses.
  3. The volume should be much louder.

So if you had trouble hearing or seeing the PHP videos … (for the visually impaired or inebriated) these new Javascript videos should be easier to watch. There are about 10 videos for you to watch at this time.

Hope you guys find them useful.

Stefan Mischook

www.killerphp.com

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New Wordpress Themes Video Tutorial

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

video tutorial

Hi,

I just released a new video course on how to create a Wordpress theme/template from scratch.

About the video:

Video Synopsis – Building a Simple WordPress Theme

In these 12 videos, we will take someone with some beginner HTML and CSS skills through the steps needed to build a WordPress template from scratch. The videos use only a collection of freely downloadable tools that are available on Windows and Mac.

The goal of this set is to focus on the different files used in a functional WordPress template and how they all work together to build a unified design that is extensible and driven as much as possible from the WordPress blogging framework.

Included in this set is the construction of a dynamic top-level navigation, a widget-friendly sidebar, a customized search form and a specially-designed home page.

It is assumed that the viewer understands HTML and a bit of CSS. A basic understanding of PHP is helpful, but not required.

While its best to follow along, the project files are included in this video.

Those who know me, know that I am a big believer that both PHP programmers and web designers, should learn at least one CMS or blog software package. I jumped into the Wordpress camp a while back for a bunch of reasons:

- It’s popular.
- It’s easy to use.
- It’s easy to customize.

… And it is built with PHP.

Regardless, learning to create templates for Wordpress will help you with your PHP skills because you will learn about how PHP can be used to build a templating system.

Thanks for reading,

Stefan Mischook

www.killerphp.com
www.killersites.com

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PHP Shopping Cart Video Tutorial Course – available for download.

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

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Hi,

After teasing you guys for a week or so, I’ve released the entire video tutorial course on building a PHP based shopping cart.

There is a small charge ($19.99) to download the entire course, but it is more than worth it since you get 140 minutes of top notch nerd training … and we include the source code too.

The course outline:

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Duration: 4:49

We’ll quickly go through what the end result our project is supposed to look like and some of the tools that will help us get there.

PART 2: TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
Duration: 10:42

A better look at the technologies as well as some of the tools we’re going to be used to build our PayPal shopping cart. We’ll also do a bit of refactoring and explain some of the benefits of using an IDE (integrated development environment).

PART 3: BUILDING AN XML CATALOG
Duration: 17:22

Using XML as our data storage format, we’re going to create a catalog of items for our shopping cart.

PART 4: BUILDING THE CATALOG PAGE
Duration: 15:30

We’re going to put some skin on that catalog and start making it look a little more like a page to buy items and a little less like the index of a phone book.

PART 5: FINISHING THE CATALOG TEMPLATE
Duration: 12:54

With our catalog completed, we’re going to tidy up – or refactor – our project and get ready to build the ShoppingCart object.

PART 6: MAKING AN “ADD TO CART” PAGE
Duration: 15:58

We’ll cover how we can use the $_SESSION array in PHP to store our customer’s order as they navigate our website and add items to the shopping cart. We’ll also start building the Shopping Cart class and look at some object-oriented programming concepts.

PART 7: BUILDING THE SHOPPING CART
Duration: 15:54

We will be adding the major functionality of our shopping cart class in this video and getting it ready for calculating subtotals and totals with shipping costs.

PART 8: CALCULATING COST
Duration: 7:37

We’ll be creating templates for our checkout page in order to have a proper line-item for each product with the necessary cost details.

PART 9: SHIPPING COST
Duration: 10:09

Now that we have the individual items lined up in our checkout page, we can add the shipping costs.

PART 10: FINISHING THE CART TEMPLATE
Duration: 8:38

We’re finally done writing our shopping cart class! Now we can put it to work with our newly created checkout page.

PART 11: SENDING DATA TO PAYPAL
Duration: 11:36

PayPal requires a collection of preset hidden form elements on form submission. These elements act as the glue between our shopping cart and their website, and we’re going to flush them out in this video.

PART 12: PAYPAL SANDBOX INTEGRATION
Duration: 12:31

We’re going to go through the steps needed to create a PayPal Sandbox account. This tool lets us complete transactions without having to pass money through PayPal.

PART 13: A QUICK LOOK AT PAYPAL’S IPN
Duration: 5:47

PayPal’s IPN (Instant Payment Notification) is a handy way of knowing when a transaction has been completed succesfully. We’ll quickly go over how we can pick up data collected by PayPal and how it can be used to track orders after they’ve been placed.

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Should you have any questions or comments, please feel to post them.

PS: I will have more new FREE PHP and Dreamweaver CS4 videos coming out soon.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

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PHP Shopping Cart Tutorial

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

video tutorial

Hi,

I just released a new PHP shopping cart video tutorial for beginners. In this series of videos, you learn how to build a PHP based shopping cart that works with Paypal. Some highlights:

  • It’s object oriented – almost!
  • The shopping cart ‘talks’ to Paypal.
  • Learn how to create XML documents and how to process them with PHP.
  • You also learn a few ‘best practices’ when it comes to programming.

I hope you enjoy.

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com

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Killerphp Videos Now Available for Download

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Hi,

I’ve had many request for access to the videos either on a DVD or in a downloadable format for viewing offline. So after many months of brushing it off, I now have the videos for you … at a small cost:

  • $19.99 for the download
  • $29.99 for the DVD

The videos are still all available to watch online, but you now have the option to take them home with you. Better yet, I’ve re-rendered the videos in a high quality Quicktime video format.

About the videos:

All together, the collection consist of 47 video tutorials (a few hours of videos) that weights in at 1.67 gigs! The collection now covers:

  • Basic PHP
  • MySQL and SQL Basics
  • Object Oriented PHP

.. and a few of other things related to PHP.

The Videos:

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killerphp.com

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