In your web hosting account, there is what you call the cPanel, short for Control Panel. This is where you will have access to everything you need to build your website and upload any necessary information and data. If you are a beginner to webhosting and cpanel use, then you should familiarize yourself with the cpanel before you start creating your website. This will allow you to be more efficient when it comes to making any changes to your site.
Designing, internet hosting, and managing a website can be a challenging course of for individuals who want such a web site, but have never earlier than hosted one on the Internet. To assist in this process, making it smoother, extra intuitive, and more accessible for the potential web site owner, a management panel program named cPanel (based mostly on Unix) is now provided by some internet hosts as part of the hosting package. This system is written and marketed by an organization of the same name. (more...)
Don't forget to check out part 1 if you have no read it.
In the second part of this 5 part tutorial series on how to build a Twitter-like website, we will be creating a signup form so that users can register to our website.
We will be adding records to the database that we created in part 1 and creating validation rules to make sure that the user didn't put any invalid data into the form.
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This tutorial will be the first of a five part series where we will built a social network site similar to Twitter from scratch. We will be using the CodeIgniter framework for the core of the website and jQuery for the effects. In this first part we will be configuring CodeIgniter to display everything correctly and we will also set up a database and connect to it.
You can view a demo and download the resources for this tutorial at the bottom of the post.
Web 2.0 websites have a lot of Ajax functionality, some times when you load a new element of a page you may want the user to be able to click the back or forward button so that they can see the previously loaded content. One method to add this function to a website is to use the jQuery Address plugin with jQuery.
jQuery Address has 4 main methods; init, change, internalChange, externalChange. The init method is what is called when the plugin is initiated. The change method is called when the URL is changed, an element in the page is changed or either the forward or backward button is pressed. The change method has the combined functionality of internalChange and externalChange. The internalChange is only called when a hyperlink inside the page is clicked; externalChange is only called when the URL is changed or the backward or forward button is pressed.
To allow deep linking within your website the only two methods that are required is init and change, you can then use internalChange and externalChange wherever you may need them.
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The class that we are going to create within CI will simply add a math question that the user will have to enter correctly to continue. This is useful to stop bots from mass submitting information to your forms.
The class we are going to write is only very short and simple, but it will give you an idea of how to create classes for your own projects.
Creating the new class
First of all we need to create the file for the class, navigate to libraries then create a file called math_question.php.
All we are going to do within this class is generate two random numbers that will be added together.
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Create a form that requires the user to enter both a username and password. If the username field or password field is left blank then a message will be displayed.
Learn how to use the animate function within the jQuery library to create an effect similar to the table of contents for the table of contents on codeigniter.com.
The plugin that I'm going to show you how to create within this post is a plugin that I created for MakeUseOf.
Creating plugins for WP is relatively easy and uses actions to call functions that are included in pages within the main WP files. To learn more about creating plugins for WP go here.
Ok so lets get started with creating the plugin.
When creating a plugin for WP make sure that you include your own unique word or acronym to your functions so that they don't conflict with any other plugins that may be installed.
Because I created this for MakeUseOf the acronym I use is MUO and then AF because I named the plugin author footer so every function within this plugin begins with MUO_AF.
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