Creating an App from Scratch Part 9

Creating a Web App from Scratch Part 9
Bugs, Security, and Other Tweaks

There were supposed to be only eight parts to this series, but as we started releasing them, Chris and I realized that there was going to need to be a follow-up post to address some of the bug fixes... read more

Creating an App from Scratch Source Files and Giveaway Winne

Chris and I have packaged up the source code and PSD files for our Colored Lists web app and put them up on a splash page that includes navigation to the whole series.

Creating a Web App from Scratch Homepage

Also, we selected the five random winners for the book giveaway: congratulations to Bryan, gemmes, Gaston, An, and Mike Henderson. They'll be receiving a free copy of PHP for Absolute Beginners. If you didn't win a copy, you can still save on the ebook with the discount code PHPXBRZQXSIKG (good through 12/31/2009).

Next week we'll add a Part 9 to the series that will go over some of the bug fixes and security patches that were pointed out.

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Creating an App from Scratch Part 7

Creating a Web App from Scratch Part 7
Where We're At

Now that we've got a set of AJAX controls mostly assembled, we can start building our PHP class to handle list interactions. This class will be called ColoredListsItems and it will reside in the file class.lists.inc.php in the inc folder.
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Creating an App from Scratch Part 5

Creating a Web App from Scratch Part 5
Where Are We?

Now that we have a workflow put together and the HTML and CSS to make it look good, we can actually start building the classes that will run this puppy.

We'll focus this installment of the series on the user's account interactions... read more