HTML Codes For Playing Cards

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Would you like to display playing cards symbols like Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs and Spades on your HTML pages? Well, it’s quite simple. Just use the following HTML codes: Symbol   Code HTML Diamonds ♦ ♦ ♦ Hearts ♥ ♥ ♥ Clubs ♣ ♣ ♣ Spades ♠ ♠ ♠ With the playing cards HTML codes you … Read more

3 Great HTML5 Attributes That Simplify Coding

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HTML5 offers a lot of new features, which were, in my opinion, long overdue. In this article i will show you three great new HTML5 attributes which will make coding your HTML5 Website easier.

placeholder-Attribute

Do you know this placeholder texts within form fields like e.g. “Enter your email adress here”? Well with HTML5 you can add placeholders quite easily to your form fields. Just add the placeholder attribute to your form tag. No Javascript or other hacks needed anymore.

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How To Convert A Decimal Number To A Binary Number

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Converting a decimal number to a binary number is easy. You just have to divide the decimal number by 2. If the division yields an integer, note 0, otherwise 1.
Now take the integer part of the division and divide it again by 2. Here, too, the value 0 or 1 is determined analogously.
This is done until the result of the division is 0.

Here is an example:

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PHP: Detect Time Of Last Modification Of A File

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Do you need to find out in PHP, when a file was modified? Then you should take a look at the PHP-function filemtime. This function expects a filename as parameter and returns the modification-time of this file.
Here is an example:

< ?php
echo filemtime('anyfile.html');
?>

This PHP-script will output the timestamp of the last modification of the file anyfile.html.
You can also format this by using the date-function:

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Display A HTML-List Horizontally

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Normally a HTML-list is displayed vertically, which means that each entry is below the previous entry. But for some reasons you might want to display the list vertically, e.g. for a menubar.
Here is a simple way to do that.

For this example I’ll use the following list:

<ul>
	<li>Item 1</li>
	<li>Item 2</li>
	<li>Item 3</li>
</ul>

The result looks like this:

  • Item 1
  • Item 2
  • Item 3

Now, we add some CSS:

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PHP: Output An Associative Array

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In this article I’ll show you, how to output each element of an an assciative array in PHP. First of all, we need an associative array. In this example I’ll use an array with colors as the key and the corresponding HEX-code of this color as the value.

Let’s start! Here is the associative PHP array:

// Our associative array
$arrMembers = array(
	'Red'=>'ff0000',
	'Green'=>'00ff00',
	'Blue'=>'0000ff',
	'Yellow'=>'ffff00'
);

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Basic HTML5 Structure

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In this article I’ll show you the basic structure of an HTML5 Document. Look at the following code, which is a very basic example of an HTML5-page. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title> This Text will be shown as the Browsers Tab Heading </title> </head>   <body> Here comes the HTML, which will be … Read more