MySQL Tutorial: A Beginners Guide
So, what is a database? If you think you’ve never used a database before you’re wrong. Are you online right now reading this post?? Guess what, you’re reading information from a database. You can...
Author: Jade
jQuery File Trees and File Managers
jQuery File Tree Produces valid, semantic XHTML Fully customizable via CSS Ability to style icons based on file extension Uses AJAX to fetch file information on the fly Easy to configure and implement Includes...
PHP Tutorial: Easy SQL Injection Prevention
I’ve noticed on several client games I’ve worked on recently that instead of creating a global cleaning function to prevent SQL injections they’re wrapping mysql_real_escape_string() calls around everything. Sure, putting this function around any...
Flash AS3 Function: Scale and Resize a MovieClip in Proportion
One of the things that drives me nuts is when you have to scale or resize a movie clip and keep it in proportion at the same time. So I created this function to do all...
Flash AS3 Function: Duplicate MovieClip Objects
Recently I’ve found that I need to duplicate movie clip objects. I’m not talking about creating a new instance of the class, but actually duplicating the object with transformations (ie width, height, rotation) and...
PHP Tutorial: Free OOP Hangman Game (database required)
In this tutorial we’ll be modifying the original PHP hangman game so instead of reading from a text file it reads from the database. We’ll also be adding a new word difficulty option. This...
PHP Tutorial: Mass search and replace database field contents
So recently I needed to remove a bunch of URLs from my member’s content on my games because of spyware/malware notifications Chrome users were getting. It took me a bit to figure out how...
Flash AS3 Tutorial: How to Create 2D or 3D Dynamic, Multi-Dimensional Arrays
So creating a dynamic 2-dimensional array in flash isn’t as easy as you’d think. Instead of being able to just assign variables into a specific row/column position you have to initialize an array of...
AJAX Tutorial: 2 Player Tic-Tac-Toe Game (no database required)
If you haven’t read the first tutorial, the PHP version of this game without AJAX, then you should start there. This tutorial assumes you’ve already read the first one so I’m not going to...
