Archive for the ‘Development Tutorials’ Category

phpFox2 Beta 2 Released

phpFox2 Beta 2 has arrived. With this release we are introducing the Video module and a few other modules that complement it as well as other modules we have introduced in the past.
We will shortly cover what is new with Beta2, if you would like to catch up with what our past Alpha/Beta versions introduced [...]

phpFox2 Alpha 4 Released

phpFox2 has reached its final Alpha release. Our next release will be our first Beta and there will be four Beta versions before we move onto RC (Release Candidate) versions. Alpha4 introduces 3 larger modules for the public to test as well as several improvements/fixes on the modules we introduced in past versions.
We will shortly [...]

Backup phpfox sites

Hey guys!
Saw a post in the forums yesterday and thought that even while it is very easy to backup a site some might not be aware of how to do it, so instead of writing a step by step tut I thought a video would explain it better so here it is:
Backup phpfox sites
Hope its [...]

JQuery :: effects

Hello all!
In this primer I wanted to talk about JQuery a little and focus on the visual effects it allows.
JQuery is a JavaScript library, it is very very robust and provides awesome features, among the most important is the extension of the html DOM into a JSON like schema which allows ajax interaction very easily [...]

Tableless design

Aloha guys!
Today I wanted to talk about tableless design, have to admit it was a rather rough change for me and one of the steps my therapist suggested was to talk about it (lol!)
So, maybe you remember a couple of years ago (when internet was still a little less than 80% porn) that everything was [...]

Safe Image File Upload

Hello all!
With the great feedback from our kind Master (hehe) I wanted to chip in too and give some pointers that developers should take into account
when working on an upload system. This post is aimed to image files.
A normal implementation of an image file upload could look like this:

<form name="myForm" action="imageupload1.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

Choose your image: [...]