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Party Invitation and Guest List
My brother and Sister were throwing a joint birthday party and needed a way to manage a guest for the party. We looked at facebook but had issues with different groups and people not on facebook (mainly family members) and adding guest names. It was decided in the end that it was easier to have an open guest list added onto this site with invitations sent out with the URL on. So I designed the invite... More >>
Speed up your website with these tips
Most of us have broadband nowadays but with sites becoming more complex with the use of Ajax and JavaScript Libraries the average web page has tripled in just five years. Developers seem to be getting lazy and building fat websites that are becoming too large for most of our average broadband connections. When at work our broadband line isn't fantastic and I often end up feeling like I'm using dial-up again!
A whopping 55% of users felt speed is the most important factor in a site.
Source: Study: Web Users Prefer Speed Over Customization (A very interesting read)... More >>
Creating an XML RSS feed with PHP.
Using this PHP class you can create an RSS feed of your dynamic content very easily.
I have built the class for this site so it is focused on blog style content. I have built in XSLT support into the class. The class will print out the XML header the content and then the XML footer. I have put all the files you need into a folder: rss.zip... More >>
Building a custom PHP search tool
How to search several columns of a MySQL table with keywords and multiple parameters
The Project - Resource Center
I want to centralise all of Redwood Resources on the site into one manageable place. To accomplish this I will need to put all our resources details into a MySQL table and give users the capability to search that table and display the results... More >>
Custom PHP common functions
Useful standalone php functions
I am listing a collection of PHP functions I have used over the years to organise and speed up my coding. I am now looking at re-writting these using PHP 5 and using PEAR for some standard functions. So thought this would be a good time to document them and hopefully they may help somebody with there work in the future.
Some people would argue that small standalone functions like these are no longer needed due to function libraries (like PEAR) But if you are just building a small site with limited functions I don't feel a large library is always needed... More >>
Custom PHP database functions
Keeping your code organised, clean and fast
One advantage of using functions which is often overlooked, is code contained within functions is ignored until the function is called from another part in the script, which can make your script load faster. It also keeps your code organised and clean.
This article will focus on database functions, I use hand written functions like these as i find them faster and easier to maintain compared to using a package like PEAR::DB... More >>
Salesforce form integration (web-to-lead) with PHP and cURL
Salesforce has an out of the box solution for generating leads from online forms called web-to-lead, this solution is very basic and in my opinion very insecure. A small amount of Redwood's forms require a submission of data to a database as well as sending the data to Salesforce, the basic web-to-lead forms can't handle this... More >>
Building a Marketing Administration System from scratch
Project Requirements
To build a system where staff can build and edit landing pages for webinars and events where customers could register for them plus request documents. Staff also require the ability to view and edit registration details online. I also wanted to add the feature of downloading the data as .CSV files.
This project was one part of a much bigger project of rebuilding the Redwood Software site... More >>