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Introduction to Craft CMS

Tutorial • Beginner

For developers who want more control and performance than WordPress offers, Craft CMS offers a compelling solution.

Jeff Reifman • 22 Jun 2015
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Rich Text Input With Redactor

Tutorial • Intermediate

The Yii community purchased a license to Imperavi's Redactor, a fast, clean and extendable rich text editor for the web. Learn how to integrate Redactor into...

Jeff Reifman • 17 Jun 2015
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Working With Asset Bundles

Tutorial • Intermediate

Yii2 Asset Bundles make it easier to manage and optimize when and where we use JavaScript and CSS within our web applications. Learn to use Asset Bundles in...

Jeff Reifman • 10 Jun 2015
Security

How to Program With Yii2: Specialized Validations

Tutorial • Intermediate

In part two of our miniseries on Yii2 validations, we explore highly useful validations for common web development requirements such as URL, email, file and...

Jeff Reifman • 3 Jun 2015
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Validations

Tutorial • Intermediate

The Yii Framework's built-in, extensible validators provide powerful data conformance controls which speed web development. Learn how to use them and extend...

Jeff Reifman • 27 May 2015
Yii

Using Social Media to Locate Eyewitnesses: The Twitter API

Tutorial • Intermediate

In part one, we used the Instagram API to find eyewitnesses to important events. Now we'll use the more difficult Twitter geolocation search API.

Jeff Reifman • 25 May 2015
Yii

E-mail List Alternatives With PHP: Using Mailgun's List API

Tutorial • Intermediate

Mailgun's List API provides an economical, scalable option for managing your own mailing lists.

Jeff Reifman • 23 May 2015
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Timestamp Behavior

Tutorial • Intermediate

Timestamp records in all your models with minimal effort using this essential Yii2 behavior.

Jeff Reifman • 22 May 2015
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Blameable Behaviors

Tutorial • Intermediate

Yii2's behaviors reduce the need to repeat common code. The Blameable Behavior automates the tracking of who created and updated model entries. We'll also...

Jeff Reifman • 20 May 2015
AJAX

Building Your Startup With PHP: Scheduling Availability and Choices

Tutorial • Advanced

Learn how we use Bootstrap switches, Yii 2 MVC and AJAX to gather participant availability and meeting preferences and finalize the schedule.

Jeff Reifman • 18 May 2015
Yii

Using Social Media to Locate Eyewitnesses to Important Events

Tutorial • Intermediate

Given a time and a place, how might a journalist or law enforcement detective locate potential eyewitnesses to a crime or important event? We'll explore the...

Jeff Reifman • 4 May 2015
Bootstrap

Building Your Startup With PHP: Scheduling a Meeting

Tutorial • Intermediate

After laying the groundwork in previous tutorials, we're finally ready to begin building the end user functionality for scheduling a meeting, and it's...

Jeff Reifman • 20 Apr 2015