AJAX has become THE way to build user friendly and dynamic websites. With AJAX, you can update the contents of a page without doing a full page reload. Most websites need this behavior. Read this post to learn how to implement AJAX on WordPress sites.
Backend (Server-Side)
I code in several different programming languages and I post content relevant to the different languages on this website. Software development tools and languages evolve very dynamically. What's hot today may be forgotten tomorrow. So, categorizing my content based on language is not very practical. Instead, I use client-server labeling to categorize my work with various programming languages. This section holds content that I consider to be back-end (or server-side) programming.
How To Install PHP Packages Without Composer
Many people play with PHP without necessarily being professional developers. For such people, package managers may make coding seem too complicated. This article shows how to bypass the Composer barrier when installing Composer-dependent PHP packages.
Pros And Cons Of Software Package Managers
Package managers are ubiquitous in today’s software ecosystem. But developers still have a love-hate relationship with them. This article discusses the pros and cons of package managers in general, without necessarily arguing FOR or AGAINST them.
Two Useful Restrictions To Place On Non-Admin WordPress Accounts
Code snippets to restrict authors and contributors of multi-author WordPress websites. The first piece of code prevents them from seeing content assigned to other users. The second ensures that users can only see post counts of their own content.
How To Echo Into A Variable Using PHP Output Buffering
“Echo” is a very handy PHP language construct used to output one or more strings. But echo writes to output directly. So it isn’t very straightforward to save the output of echo into a variable for later use. To do this, you need PHP output buffering.
Code Snippets To Integrate WooCommerce With The Genesis Framework
When integrating WooCommerce with the Genesis theme framework, you will very likely encounter a number of layout and/or styling issues. This article provides short code snippets and instructions to help you resolve the issues in no time.