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Google Custom Search in a Lightbox!

There are several tutorials on the Internet on how-to integrate the Google Custom search in your website, but the results are not very attractive. The older iframe version doesn’t fit perfectly in most of our templates and the style for ads and results doesn’t look good in the past. A few month Google has released [...] 

How-to choose a WordPress Hosting Provider

If you’re using the popular blog tool WordPress, you’re probably looking for th best possible Wordpress hosting provider. Choosing a host might be hard becaise the are a lot of them. I advise you to take your time and make sure you’re choosing the best option. WordPress doesn’t require a lot of “special” server features, [...] 

jQuery Contact form for your website

These days it’s very hard to prevent your e-mail box against spam if you like to get in touch with your website’s visitors. If you place some e-mail address on your website or even a regular contact form makes you possibly a victim of spambots. There are many ways to protect your inbox against spam, [...] 

Ajax requests using jQuery and PHP

Our last tutorial about the flickr API was an example on how-to search the flickr photo database for images using some short PHP code. This time we will use parts from the past tutorial together with some jQuery Ajax requests to show our photo search result without reloading the web page. jQuery’s Ajax implementation One of the [...] 

Search for photos using PHP and the flickr API

This PHP tutorial will show how to create a simple PHP class to search the flickr site for some photos. To get the data we use the flickr API to run a simple search and return the results in a serialized array. We will be using the php function "file_get_contents" to receive data from flickr. [...]