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Hold on... This isn't EnnuiDesign.com — What Gives?

It's been a long time coming, but Jason Lengstorf, formerly of Ennui Design, has expanded his team to include Drew Douglass, Rob MacKay, Henry Moran, and Tom Sturge.

It didn't feel right to keep the same name, so we decided to continue on as Copter Labs. You can expect the same great content under this new name!

Recent Entries, Page 6

  • Automate Your Copyright Notices

    Learn to automatically generate a copyright notice to cover a year range using PHP.

    • Date 02/10/2009
    • comments 12
    • Category PHP
  • Generate a Text Excerpt with PHP

    Sometimes showing a title just isn't enough to grab a user's attention. You need to give them a taste of the article to get them to click through and read your content. Generating a text preview is actually fairly simple; in this tutorial we'll go through one method of displaying the first few words of an entry.

    • Date 02/03/2009
    • comments 4
    • Category PHP
  • Reading RSS with PHP

    In this tutorial, we'll use SimpleXML and a custom PHP class to load and parse a user's Flickr RSS feed, isolate the pieces of information we need, and output the data as HTML.

    • Date 09/21/2008
    • comments 53
    • Category PHP