Hi and I am planning to make a bunch of tutorials. I would like to hear what sort of php/ajax tutorials people would like to see. I have heard in the past that some noobs would like a tutorial on making a blog. What else should I write tutorials about which you would enjoy reading/using?
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
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A few suggestions:
- How to debug your code
- How do you use an include() and how do you acces files beneath the webroot?
- How do you secure your site, what techniques can be used and what shouldn't you do.
- When should you use sprintf(), printf(), print(), echo() and how do you use them (%f,%d etc. and wether you should use single quotes(') or double quotes("))
~G
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
I have just created a include()/require() tutorial and a blog tutorial so are there any more suggestions for what yous would like to learn?
nav33n 472 Purple hazed! Team Colleague Featured Poster
How about a tutorial on pagination (this question has been asked n number of times) , carts, htaccess, image handling, regular expressions, ...
cwarn23 commented: great suggestions +4
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
How about a tutorial on pagination (this question has been asked n number of times) , carts, htaccess, image handling, regular expressions, ...
Wow, those are excellent suggestions. I will start them as soon as possible and I think the charts tutorial will be interesting as I have made php charts once before but haven't really used them.
Rep points added!
nav33n 472 Purple hazed! Team Colleague Featured Poster
Great! That would solve around 80% of the question asked by the members! Good luck..
jtmcgee 0 Newbie Poster
How about:
A. You make an RSS feed
and B. you parse it! (w/ simplexml probably )
When I was a noob, that gave me sooo many problems.
HITMANOF44th 4 Posting Whiz in Training
i would say the awsomeness and many uses of echo
would be a good tutorial
because i remember when i started out i though
you had to echo each thing and its was a pain
till i learned the better way
diafol
How about an intro to OOP - preferably without the 'everyday examples', perhaps something linked to login/members/profiles? I realize that's a biggie.
The thing that always gets me is regex. I $/.~ing hate it 'coz I can't get my head around it.
ShawnCplus 456 Code Monkey Team Colleague
How about an intro to OOP - preferably without the 'everyday examples', perhaps something linked to login/members/profiles? I realize that's a biggie.
The thing that always gets me is regex. I $/.~ing hate it 'coz I can't get my head around it.
There's really no better tutorial for regular expressions that http://regular-expressions.info
leviathan185 14 Junior Poster
A few suggestions:
- How to debug your code
- How do you use an include() and how do you acces files beneath the webroot?
- How do you secure your site, what techniques can be used and what shouldn't you do.
- When should you use sprintf(), printf(), print(), echo() and how do you use them (%f,%d etc. and wether you should use single quotes(') or double quotes("))~G
I think a tutorial on best proctices on how to secure your site. IE. login and authentication on each page would be nice. Im sure alot of people will make good use of that.
leviathan185 14 Junior Poster
I think a tutorial on best proctices on how to secure your site. IE. login and authentication on each page would be nice. Im sure alot of people will make good use of that.
Apologies, I have since looked and can see you have covered that.
Great site!
OmniX 21 Practically a Master Poster
How about a tutorial on how to plug in and turn on a computer? and while we at it reset and shut down a computer.
This would optimize 50% of my work time with users of the network!!!
Sorry boys had to add it in, just quite true and hilarious still in this day and age like the TV Show the IT Crowd.
Haha
PS: cwarn32 are these tutorials able to be viewed by us via youtube, etc? Thanks.
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
PS: cwarn32 are these tutorials able to be viewed by us via youtube, etc? Thanks.
Now that's an idea. I was planning to add them to my website and submit the best ones to daniweb but I now that you mention it I will make youtube videos too.
diafol
"My God, he's taking over the World"
:)
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
"My God, he's taking over the World"
:)
:twisted: Indeed
OmniX 21 Practically a Master Poster
Let me know when the 18+ movies come out :D
Whats your website? youtube? etc? Thanks.
digital-ether 399 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
A tutorial on how to create your first PHP page. A single step by step, that would be the easiest way to start a total noob on PHP.
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
Does anyone know of a Ubuntu ogv to (avi or wmv) file converter. If such converter does not exist then are there any desktop record utilities for windows that record both part of the screen that I select and record the microphone at the same time for free? Just needs one of those two programs to be able to finish the first video tutorial. Thanks.
darkagn 315 Veteran Poster Featured Poster
Lots of noobs have trouble connecting to a MySQL database and running queries, displaying results etc.
Another good tutorial might describe the differences between the popular browsers such as IE, FF, Safari, Chrome etc. All good web developers need to know what to expect, but too many only focus on their favourite browser.
somedude3488 228 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
Try Debut Video Capture Software. It was free and did more than I expected it too.
In the tutorials, make sure you are using proper practices. I don't want to watch them and then see stuff that is wrong.
digital-ether 399 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
Does anyone know of a Ubuntu ogv to (avi or wmv) file converter. If such converter does not exist then are there any desktop record utilities for windows that record both part of the screen that I select and record the microphone at the same time for free? Just needs one of those two programs to be able to finish the first video tutorial. Thanks.
For transcoding media files you're best bet is FFMpeg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg
You can invoke it from the command line. If you want a graphical interface, VLC is also Open Source and uses FFMpeg internally.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
For recording try camstudio: http://camstudio.org/
digital-ether 399 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
Try Debut Video Capture Software. It was free and did more than I expected it too.
In the tutorials, make sure you are using proper practices. I don't want to watch them and then see stuff that is wrong.
I just tried the video capture and the other tools they have, that is some really good stuff. Thanks for recommending it.
Btw, the link is:
http://www.nchsoftware.com/
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
Try Debut Video Capture Software. It was free and did more than I expected it too.
In the tutorials, make sure you are using proper practices. I don't want to watch them and then see stuff that is wrong.
I just installed Debut Video Capture and although it works great it won't detect my microphone. Is there something I am missing because attached is the options I used and I tried every combination. I can see that if this software can recognize my microphone it will truly be the best but is useless without audio. Also windows is able to recognise my microphone because when I speak into the microphone I can hear myself in the speakers so it must be just something with the program that I do not yet understand. Please help me to make this program recognize my microphone. Thanks.
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
O' Now I've got it working. Turned out I needed to set the sound device to default sound device and the sound input to stereo mix. In addition the manual said to disable or mute devices that are not being used. Always good to RTFM. lol Now I have a lot of recordings to begin. Will let you know how it goes.
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
Youtube videos maximum 10 minutes. WHAT!!! Can't they be any longer. Looks like I might need to host these videos myself. Does anybody know if that is 100% true that youtube videos cannot exceed 10 minutes as I am waiting for youtube to process my video although when trying to play it is says can't display due to the length.
digital-ether 399 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
Youtube videos maximum 10 minutes. WHAT!!! Can't they be any longer. Looks like I might need to host these videos myself. Does anybody know if that is 100% true that youtube videos cannot exceed 10 minutes as I am waiting for youtube to process my video although when trying to play it is says can't display due to the length.
I remember reading about that limit. I think you're pretty much bound by it.
cwarn23 387 Occupation: Genius Team Colleague Featured Poster
Does anybody know of a good php video cms to store my tutorials in?
somedude3488 228 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
Why not just make one? A simple cms for videos would only take a few hours.
diafol
Vimeo is good for hosting vids (free and paid versions), can't remember if they've got a time limit though.
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