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Getting Smarter Code with PHP Variable Variables and Variable Functions

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Getting Smarter Code with PHP Variable Variables and Variable Functions
Oh, variables. Who doesn’t love them? They are such nice guys, you know. When you need something, just call $something and your value is there.But something really cool is that you actually don’t need the name of the variable. You can use other variables to access a value of one variable. For example, let’s say you have two variables $jude = "hey" and $hey = "jude". If you echo $$jude $$hey(yeah, double “$”) your output will be “hey jude”.But, as you might be thinking it is not just about variables. You can name dynamic functions, methods, arrays, and almost anything you want to. This time we will see some uses for it, with arrays, functions, classes and how this technique can help you write better code. So, let’s rock!

A Simple Guide to Improving Web Typography

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With the advent of much improved browsers, text rendering and high-resolution screens, technology is no longer an excuse for poor typography. In many ways typography can be elegant and an expression of the designer’s ideas when chosen wisely.

Today I will not only present you with guidelines to consider in mastering typography for the web, but give you the useful tools, techniques and resources to help you achieve effective designs.

Feel free to suggest any other tools or resources in the comments section.

 

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How to Customize Twitter Search and Profile Widgets

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So you want to say something and get heard from anywhere. The best way to do this is with Twitter and its widgets. We will be talking about a profile widget, that shows your latest tweets, and a search widget, that runs a custom query search and shows all the results.

They have a pretty simple customization when you generate them, but what many people haven’t noticed is that you can make advanced customization to them with CSS. This is possible because the Twitter team has made it without using any inline CSS rules, and they are such nice people that almost all their CSS is quite simple to overwrite (just with the class of the item itself in most cases).

Then, what you have to do is to turn on your CSS Zen Garden side and let your imagination create awesome widgets in a really simple way.

So, let’s rock!

 

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