I’m restructuring my blog to only focus on these languages and environments: Apache, PHP, MySQL, Javascript (usually via jQuery), XML, Actionscript, CSS, and HTML. Very rarely have I had to extend my reach out into other languages to accomplish the creation of a quality web page or web application.
I’ve looked at parsing weather data with PHP before, but I’ve found that using Yahoo’s weather service it more stable and flexible. Luckily PHP has some excellent built in functions to parse complex XML.
Eventually every programmer will be required to find a way to upload a file to a web server. I recently started a project that required a way for me to upload a word doc to a web server, which, in turn, required me to write a upload and rename script in PHP.
It is neat to display the current temperature on your website. I’d like to show you the easiest way to display the temperature on your site using XML from the National Weather Service (NOAA) and PHP.
With so many of programmers and designers coming across database oriented job opportunities, I thought I’d point out one small coding trick when it comes to handling MySQL dates with PHP. Let me show you a quick way to convert MySQL’s default date-stamp into a friendly, readable format.