jlaing submitted tutorials

Submitted by Makebeta » How to create and use a plugin widget in Wordpress 2.5. Covers settings up and using sidebars in your template, activating your widget, and displaying your widget. This tutorial is best suited for people familiar with both PHP and Wordpress themes and plugins.

Submitted by Makebeta » In this tutorial you will learn how to build a PHP script that scrapes links from any web page. The lesson covers extracting content from a site using cURL, parsing the content with PHP's Dom functions, finding links using XPath queries, and storing the links in a MySQL database. Legal issues associated with scraping content is discussed at the end of the tutorial.

Submitted by Makebeta » I will cover the basics of using the Facebook PHP Client Library and how to get your application started, including: 1. Installing The Facebook Developer Application 2. Downloading The Facebook PHP Client Library 3. Creating Your Application 4. Hello Facebook! Example 5. FBML - Facebook Markup Language 6. Using the Facebook API

Submitted by Makebeta » How to customize WordPress. An introduction to WordPress, and the basics of customizing themes. Plus some tips for making your blog search engine friendly.