Develop flexible, powerful, and professional themes for your PrestaShop store through simple steps
Customizing PrestaShop Theme Part I covers the ways to modify the general layout of the PrestaShops theme. Here you will be guided on editing the theme and playing around with the modules. You will get to know terms such as hooks transplanting and positioning.
This is the second last chapter in this book and also the first one in a series of two chapters describing how we can clone a social networking service like Facebook. Social networking services are the next step in the evolution of Internet applications and Facebook is currently the most successful incarnation of this service. Cloning Facebook is not difficult though, as can be attested in this chapter and also in the many Facebook clones out there on the Internet.
In today's video quick tip, we'll go over when and why to use JOINs when working with your databases.
Every workman needs a good toolbox, and web developers are no different. PHP helper functions are designed to speed up and homogenise repetitive tasks, and make your life that much easier. This first tutorial explains how to make link helpers that will improve your methods for adding hyperlinks and mailto links in your web applications.
For many PHP programmers, object-oriented programming is a frightening concept, full of complicated syntax and other roadblocks. As detailed in my book, Pro PHP and jQuery, you\'ll learn the concepts behind object-oriented programming (OOP), a style of coding in which related actions are grouped into classes to aid in creating more-compact, effective code.
Offering your content or logic as a service on the web is a great idea. For starters it allows you to build numerous front-ends for your own information without having to access the databases all the time (and thus making scaling your system much easier). The even more practical upshot is that you allow people on the web to play with your information and build things you never even dreamed of doing.
We\'re back with the second entry in the Nettuts+ Q&A series. Today, we discuss the difference between LESS and Sass, how to pass server-side values to your JavaScript, how to work with PHP and cookies, and the HTML5 doctype.
I hear this CSS3 thing is all the rage. Resources are flying around the tutorial world and blogosphere providing brilliant examples of creative new ways to design using CSS3 modules. However, it\'s easy to over-implement and lose the brilliant subtlety of great user interfaces. Here are three quick tips for using powerful CSS3 techniques in subtle ways.
PHP provides a number of magic methods that allow you to do some pretty neat tricks in object oriented programming. These methods, identified by a two underscore prefix (__), function as interceptors that are automatically called when certain conditions are met. Magic methods provide some extremely useful functionality, and this tutorial will demonstrate each method\'s use.