Today we are going to learn how to build a form that can automatically or manually check if a username is taken or not. These types of forms can enhance the registration process greatly. Lets get started! Firstly you will need to set up a table in your database called …

Most people associate WordPress with blogs and only blogs. But this isn’t true, when it was first launched that was the case but now it is being used by many sites as the basis for a content management system. This site uses wordpress. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able …

By using PHP to work with the very popular SQL column type DateTime, it is possible to format a timestamp in any configuration. PHP quickly and easily enables a simple, robust and handy function to represent DateTime in any format you see fit. PHP’s time() uses Unix timestamps for its date functionality, …

You are probably most familiar with this feature if you use Twitter, Reddit and Digg to name a few. This function just makes the dates on your blog look a lot prettier as well as just making them more user/human friendly. We are going to add the following code to …

As we know there quite a few plugin’s available that add related posts to the bottom of ever post, which will obviously help the user find relevant articles to what they are viewing. However one draw back of these plugin’s is that you can’t place this information anywhere you want. …