Codex

Here’s a list of all my tutorials, free code, programming cheats, tips and hints broken down by category. I’ll try to keep this list up to date but searching for the word “tutorial” using my blog’s search feature is your best bet.

Free Games

PHP and/or MySQL

• Pits Of Doom – Database Required
• Hangman – No Database Required
• Hangman – Database Required
• 2 Player Tic Tac Toe – No Database Required
• Multi Instance 2 Player Tic Tac Toe – No Database Required
• Number Guessing Game – No Database Required

Flash

• Shape Clicker

AJAX

• Hangman – No Database Required
• 2 Player Tic-Tac-Toe – No Database Required

HTML5

• Battle Pong
• Alien Invasion Game

Scripting Languages

PHP

• Learning
  • Beginner
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
    • Part 3
  • Intermediate
    • Connecting to a MySQL database
    • Print all MySQL tables and fields
    • Looping through and displaying a MySQL database query results
  • Advanced
    • Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and how to extend classes
• Tutorials
  • Pits of Doom – Free Multiplayer Fighting Game
  • Put MySQL enum values into a select drop down box
  • Put MySQL enum values into an array
  • Create an email address in CPanel
  • Searching and pagination
  • Dynamically cache files
• Functions
  • Format dates taking country into consideration
  • Get file name from domain path
  • Fun with words functions
  • Useful functions
  • Easy SQL injection prevention
  • Message posted x time ago (facebook style)
  • Nl2br that doesn’t add br tags inside a textarea content
• Colors & Images
  • Dynamically colored images, overlays and transparencies using GD library
  • Mixing or blending hex colors
  • Random hex color within the range of two colors
• Reference
  • ASP cross reference cheat sheet
• Code Generators
  • PHP class file generator

ASP

• How to do a SOAP request using classic ASP
• PHP cross reference cheat sheet

Javascript

• Property name for CSS elements using getElementById
• Useful AJAX functions
• Horse to Human Age Calculator
• Recursive Promise Calls

HTML5

• A crash course in tables
• Simple Music Player
• Battle Pong
• Alien Invasion

JQuery

• Display
  • Add or remove a CSS class on ALL input text fields
  • Select or deselect a radio button
  • Toggle enable/disabled for multiple radio buttons
  • Blinking elements – continuously or a set number of times
  • Hide/display options based on form selection value
• UI
  • Scroll modal dialog popups with the page scroll
• Google Maps
  • You are here in 3 easy steps
• DOJO Grid
  
  • Clear all values from a DOJO grid

Angular JS

• Nested Ng-Repeats
• Dynamically reformat number of max columns per table
• Auto-complete with complex objects
• Chat Room (no database required)
• Advanced Chat Room (no database required)  – font colors, emoticons, hyperlinks, multi-channel
• AugularUI auto-complete using typeahead directive (NO JQUERY)
• AngularUI unique filter on objects
• AngularUI autocomplete using complex object arrays (NO JQUERY)
• AngularUI tinymce directive
• Twin list directive (NO JQUERY)
• Sample Angular Website
• Angular toast message system

Node JS

•  How to Create A Simple Server

Jasmine

• Unit Testing Promises

Databases

MySQL

• Easily update rows based on complex joins
• Select, update, delete and insert syntax explained
• Combine multiple rows into a single comma delineated list

MSSQL

• Delete all but one duplicate record
• Combine multiple rows into a single comma delineated list
• Search the code inside of stored procedures 
• Select all tables and fields

Flash

Actionscript

• Embedding
  • AS3 embedding symbols from an external .SWF file
• Conversions & Dynamic Creation
  • AS3 difference between a number, int and uint
  • AS3 convert URLs to clickable hyperlinks
  • AS3 dynamically create 2D and 3D arrays
  • AS3 scale and resize a movieclip in proportion
  • AS3 duplicate movieclip objects (ie copy the existing instance)
• Event Listeners
  • AS3 easily add, retrieve and remove ALL event listeners
  • AS3 callback functions, pass multiple parameters to single parameter function
• Components & Display
  • AS3 change font styles on textinput and textarea components
  • AS3 put tilelist pictures beside label text
  • AS3 remove HTML tags

SmartFoxServer 2X

• How to use with an object oriented approach
• Create a custom MySQL login extension
  

Compiled Languages

C/C++

• MySQL database class

Allegro API

• Alternative to Allegro GUI text input
• Threading

Server Software

XAMPP

• Program with PHP and MySQL without online hosting

Red Hat Linux

• Running CRON jobs to execute PHP files
• How to create vsftpd accounts
• Installing or upgrading an RPM package
• Blocking IP addresses
• Useful Linux commands

Cygwin

• Replace vi with Notepad++
• .bashrc config

SecondLife

Linden Script

• Single controller for multiple objects
• Communication between two objects
• Working elevator
• Phantom objects ie walking through walls
• Set linked objects a certain color