The last few weeks I was busy, enjoying the nice landscapes of Bavaria and reading Learn PHP 7. The first one was more interesting than the second one definitely, but still reading the book was nice in its own way.…
The last few weeks I was busy, enjoying the nice landscapes of Bavaria and reading Learn PHP 7. The first one was more interesting than the second one definitely, but still reading the book was nice in its own way.…
After writing some articles about PHP and even reviewing books about it, I have asked the nice people from Apress.Com to kindly send me the book PHP 7 for a review. And they did it! 😀 Thus, I hope I would…
A little less than two months ago I was kindly provided with the second edition of the book Pro PHP and jQuery for a review. I have about 2 years experience with both technologies, although I am making a living mainly…
VitoshAcademy.Com has obtained a new book for a review from Apress.com. The book is Pro PHP and jQuery from Jason Lengstorf , Keith Wald. The book will be reviewed within some reasonable time 🙂 I do not recall reviewing PHP book, so…
I really did not think to make a post about it, but as far as I have lost about 15 minutes in research how to do it, it is obviously that spending some 10 minutes more would be valuable. The…
Some time ago I have made a simple ToDo list with PHP here. Today, using its database and one function from the list, I have decided to make the todo list with Ajax. This means, that you should not refresh…
After the simple ToDo list here, I have decided to add more features to it. So, a possible feature, looks like this – you have a drop down menu with all the users in the database: Then, after a selection,…
As far as I am putting some efforts towards PHP and understanding why it is so hated by programmers all around, I have decided that the results from the queries should be always easily displayed in an HTML table. A…
Some two days ago I have decided that it would be more fun if I try to make a simple PHP todo list, while trying to learn the language. 🙂 After all, I have made this exercise with JS (no…
Indeed simple. These are the rules (from a homework of the SoftUni): Implement a “Guess Number Game” in PHP. Keep the secret number in the user’s session and indicate “Up” or “Down” after each guess. At the start page of…
Have you ever thought how the web server acts in case that you enter an address, which does not exist? In many sites (including this one), you go to a fancy 404 page. This linking to that special page is…
Have you ever dreamt to understand the inheritance and the overload from once 5 minute example? No such dreams? Anyway, in case you ever tend to think about it, here is the example with PHP. Let’s imagine that we have…
PHP and iterators… Violin and boxing… Anyway, it is possible and the possibility is since some years ago. In this article I will simply show how to make an iterator with a PHP class. And I would iterate in a…
After some time with JS and Python, this week I have decided to continue with PHP. So, let’s see how you can make a class with a function in PHP. My class would be called Investment, with 3 public variables…
As you are probably aware, this site is called VitoshAcademy. As far as the site is called this way, I have tought of finding a way to issue automatic certificates with PDF and PHP. And this is exactly what I am going…
Now continuing with PHP – today I will show you how to use a simple xml file and to get its data to a PHP file in the Internet. Not as difficult as it seems actually – XML files are…
Reading and writing always come together. Thus, after presenting the way to read from a file, now it is time to be able to write: Writing in PHP is not a challenge, the only tricky part is to…
As I have already mentioned in a previous article here, lately PHP has attracted my attention. Thus, today I will show how to build a small HTML table from a txt file, using each line in the file as a…
Some time ago, about 10 days to be more precise, I have decided to take a better look at PHP and to try to understand why so many people hate it actually. After all, as a VBA developer (or if…
With the current application you may do the following – enter an expense and select what kind of expense it is. I have predefined some of the expenses, but you may add your own later. What the PHP application actually…
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The idea of the article is to show how to make a simple Django App, with 4 links, each of which navigates to a specific page. The whole code of the “app” is in GitHub, here: https://github.com/Vitosh/Python_personal/tree/master/JustProject. In general, these are…
Although there are plenty of other tools for extracting data from a website (take a look at Beautiful Soup), VBA is somehow good, because … well, because it is somehow challenging to do it every time. Yesterday, I answered a…
VitoshAcademy has the pleasure to welcome its first guest author – Mr. Mathieu Guindon. He is the project manager behind Rubberduck – an open-source COM add-in project written in C#, extending the glorious VBE with modern-day IDE features. On Code Review and Stack Overflow he is closely monitoring…
If you are coming from the .Net world, then you are used to declare variables like this:
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In this case, both foo and bar are of type Long. Then, someone tells you that you want to switch for a…
The past week, on Monday and Tuesday I was in Berlin, for the DevOpsCon. On Tuesday was the first day of the conference. I was present on a few DevOps talks and in general, I managed to understand…
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The idea here is to show a little bit about parallel programming and the way I understand it – as far as I am mainly a VBA developer, I do not understand it, because Microsoft did not think that it…
Let’s start from the very beginning in jQuery. Somewhere in the beginning there are events and buttons. So, I will start from there, explaining how to Trigger events and what is the difference between trigger and triggerHandler. Trigger triggers the event completely…