…inal article looks at FileList, Pathmap, CLEAN, CLOBBER, and passing arguments. These are not super important for beginners right away, but they will certainly come in very handy at a later point—invaluable really.Topics Passing Arguments FileList Pathmap Clean & Clobber For the Road Passing Arguments You have two options to…
…ing with WordPress. If I'm not building custom solutions for others, then I'm often writing tutorials in order to teach others how to do the same things.One of the great things about the WordPress community is that they hold WordCamps across the world all year long. And though how frequently…
…ing your online business.” You can download WooCommerce for free, but you really begin to see its power when you start using WordPress WooCommerce plugins and themes.But do you really need to use a WooCommerce theme?While it's not required, I highly recommend it.Not only are WooCommerce themes eCommerce-centric by design,…
…ingWhat Is Pure.css?While Bootstrap's taken over a huge swath of the web, it can put a bit of a performance burden on sites that might not be necessary for your next project. Pure.css is Yahoo's responsive framework; it offers a minimalist, well-documented and flexible alternative. In this tutorial, I'm going…
…in your day-to-day OpenCart custom module development. It’s already provisioned, as with the other frameworks, in the form of different hooks in the module architecture of OpenCart.Before we go ahead and explore the aforementioned hooks, let’s explore the concept of extensions in OpenCart. Looking from the top, it’s an extension…
…ing to build custom stuff in any framework, and the same is true for OpenCart plugins as well. In this two-part series, I'll explain custom plugin development in OpenCart. From the perspective of a newbie developer, we'll go through the details of extension development in OpenCart. We'll also create a…
…into SQL and NoSQL, based on the use (or non-use) of the SQL language. NoSQL data stores are usually based on a simpler key/value setup. SimpleDB straddles this line—it is a key/value store and it can also use a variant of SQL for retrieval. Most SQL languages are based on…
…ing HTML in your PHP is one of the worst decisions you can make. Not only is it a pain to write, it's also a pain to maintain. If you use a fully-fledged framework like Laravel, then you don't have to worry about how HTML is generated. But if you're…
…inished a series on How to Get Started With WordPress and then began this short, two-part series as a follow-up. In the previous article, we took an in-depth look at what WordPress themes are, how to think about them, and where to find them.But WordPress themes are only half of the…
…ing viewed on any and every device imaginable, the Internet has always pushed itself to new limits.So it's no surprise when we see more and more websites using video. It's not just videos as primary content either—we now see videos being used as backgrounds and in other supporting roles as…