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Creating a Blogging System (Part 2)
Jan 18th
Okay, in my first tutorial, you learned about creating an install script for your blog as well as the entry form that will add your blogs.
In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to parse the data out for your audience and how to edit your entries.
/* LET'S GET STARTED! */
Creating a Blogging system (part 1)
Jan 13th
Some time ago (a couple weeks), I created my own blogging system. No one told me how to do it and I didn’t read any tutorials on how to do it either so there were a few things I learned the hard way. As you know, Blogs are database-based, they’re all entries in a table.
You have an entry for the id, date, the content, and miscellaneous other information such as tags, and description. In this tutorial, I’d like to teach you how to do all that.
/* LET'S GET STARTED!*/
“Tweet This” and URL shortening API
Dec 19th
Alright, you’ve all seen those CRAZY “Tweet This” buttons on so many websites, (mainly wordpress). You may have also noticed that some just send you to twitter and you have to manually input the twitter message. Well, how about we just make a button that will automate all this for us?
I really do love it when I click on that button and twitter pops up with a pre-written message like “Check out this site : URL GOES HERE” or “Crazy CSS tutorial on backgrounds. Check it out: URL GOES HERE”, it makes it much easier for me to share my finds. Here’s a great demo.
Okay, I’m working on a new website and it has various posts on it that I want the readers to be able to automatically share on twitter. I also want to include a backlink so that their twitter followers can visit the actual article. Basically, here’s a tutorial on shortening URLs using API and for creating a twitter button.
Custom E-mail Form
Oct 15th
AH! So I have to create a custom e-mail sending form. He wants me to create a webform that will ask for a person’s name and e-mail address. Once those are input, an e-mail will be sent to the person’s e-mail account with a thank you message. Meanwhile, the website will reload with a custom coupon that bears their name. I’ll need it printable so I’ll have to add a print button as well.
Sounds simple enough, right?.. right?
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