Archive - PHP

Tutorial Series – Contact Form – Part 1

17 March 2009 by Gavin Holt, 3 Comments

When building a web application I find user feedback invaluable at all stages of the development process, both from a testing team to everyday users of the final product – all of those users will have their own unique opinions. Gathering and acting upon this feedback can help every designer / developer to improve their [...]

Tutorial Series – PHP Forms Made Easy

20 December 2008 by Gavin Holt, 1 Comment

Forms are the bain of many web-developers, with the need for data validation, CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) protection, form manipulation and integration with web applications. They take a long time to code and can be extremely fiddly to get right! However, my good friend and fellow developer Richard Willars has came up with a fantastic [...]

Validating dates with PHP

15 October 2008 by Gavin Holt, No Comments

Since I have got into building dynamic websites, I have often found myself building forms to gather dates and times of events, birthdays, booking requests. In fact, when building large applications, it is almost guaranteed you will need to take some form of date from a user. But, when building websites, we can never trust [...]