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Multisite Search Suggest

Posted by on January 2, 2012 at 9:31 pm

Beadazzle run two jewellery sites online. One site www.beadazzle.co.uk sells official Pandora Jewellery and the www.beadazzle-boutique.co.uk site sells all other non Pandora Jewellery products. Due to Pandora’s strict selling guidelines, they cannot sell any other products apart from Pandora on a single site. This meant that if they wanted to buy item Pandora and non [...]

Run your own Groupon style business or campaign

Posted by on November 11, 2011 at 3:26 pm

A new Drupal module that allows you to run your own Groupon style campaign. This type of marketing is getting evermore popular as newspapers and magazines have started to roll out their own versions. So if you run a community site the http://www.opendealsapp.com/ will allow you to offer your visitors  one off deals easily. What [...]

Nick’s in da house!

Posted by on July 6, 2011 at 4:30 pm

We have Nick Eagland in to help us at Zone 1 Creative for a week. He will helping Pin out on X-Cart integrations due to workload. Nick’s an old buddy from Dreamteam Design and brings Jammy Dodgers into the office.

Online html php editor with shiftedit

Posted by on December 12, 2010 at 9:34 pm

I never use dreamweaver or any other code generator. I have always used my trusty notepad++. But I have come across shiftedit.net which allows you to have all the syntax highlighting of notepad++ but through an online editor. It includes an FTP manager to store you connection settings so you do not have to remember [...]

How to identify the browser in PHP

Posted by on October 16, 2010 at 4:28 pm

Bastian Allgeier has posted a great article on how to identify what browser is being used to view your website. The code is written in PHP and set the HTML class to the browser being used. The implementation involves downloading the PHP code from Bastian’s website and adding two line of code to your PHP [...]

PHP programmer tools

Posted by on August 26, 2010 at 8:14 am

So you want to be a PHP programmer? Here are a list of the tools I have installed on my computer before I can start coding. Most of these apps can be installed using Ninite which is a multi installer and greater when you buy a new computer. Code Editor Notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download FTP Filezilla http://filezilla-project.org/ [...]

Writing an API in PHP for your app

Posted by on July 27, 2010 at 8:47 am

Lately I have writing an API for Micro Site Manager a satellite site generator. This app is currently in Alpha stage and is being tested by a number of my clients. If written a lot of bespoke PHP code to handle data transfer between the site and the satellite sites. So a Satellite makes a [...]

Create a simple image gallery in Drupal 6 using CCK and Views

Posted by on June 7, 2010 at 9:04 am

James Tombs provides a good step by step tutorial about creating an image gallery in Drupal. Check it out http://jamestombs.co.uk/2009-03-18/create-a-simple-image-gallery-in-drupal-6-using-cck-and-views/996