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Introducing SofaDB, a pure PHP CouchDB Alternative

May 1st, 2010

An introduction to our SofaDB project, which is a pure PHP alternative to Apache’s CouchDB project. Useful for storing non-relational data. Currently the project is in alpha stages.

Dynamic Form Actions using Different Buttons

April 25th, 2010

A method for dynamically changing form action depending on which submit button is clicked using JavaScript. Does not require knowledge of the forms name.

Free Web Utilities

April 18th, 2010

This list contains an amazing assortment of tools and utilities useful for web application development. Utilities range from server side software, web software, all the way to downloadable and hosted tools. Even better, every tool listed on this page is free.

Read GET URL variables using JavaScript

March 4th, 2010

Function which will either build an associative array of the GET URL variables on the current page, or return the value of a specified GET variable in JavaScript.

Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) Study Guide Links

March 2nd, 2010

The listing of items from ZCE for the exam, with relevant links compiled by Renowned Media.

Free VST Plugins for FL Studio

November 20th, 2009


Here is a bunch of links to free VST plugins (instruments and effects) for expanding your FL Studio environment (or any other DAW application for that matter).

CSS Drop Shadows using text-shadow

October 19th, 2009

The latest version of CSS allows you to add shadows to your text using the “text-shadow” property.

Free MySQL database of all countries

October 16th, 2009

This is a database dump of all countries, along with their 2 digit country code. There are 246 countries total, sorted alphabetically. The database dump has three columns, the first is a primary numeric key set to autoincrement. The second is the two character abbreviation of the country. The third column is the name of [...]

Short URL generator / Referrer hider

October 15th, 2009

ezLINK.info has an easy to work with API for generating shorter links. Why might someone want to create shorter links? For one thing, long URLs with tons of GET based information can be cumbersome to work with, especially manually

Free Icons

October 3rd, 2009

This post will link you to several websites where you can download free icons. These icons can be easily integrated into any project or application you are developing, whether it be a web application which you would like to redistribute or just setting them as icons for your desktop. All of the icons we’ll be [...]

Free Notepad++ Web Developers Theme

October 2nd, 2009

This is a custom developed Notepad++ theme that we use in house at Renowned Media. This is mostly used for web development languages, so the other languages will have been forsaken. For anyone who doesn’t know, Notepad++ is a syntax highlighted text editor, comparable in functionality to the larger web development IDE’s minus all of [...]

RenownedMint WordPress Theme

September 26th, 2009

RenownedMint is our first free WordPress theme, and marks an era of Renowned Media releasing more free content. Click here to download RenownedMint from Renowned Media or download RenownedMint from wordpress.org. RenownedMint is an attractive, minty Web 2.0 theme for your WordPress blog, based on the same color scheme used by our popular product RenownedStats. [...]

PHP Class for creating CSS Graphs

September 18th, 2009

We’ve developed a PHP Class for drawing a CSS graph. The CSS and XHTML code for this class was originally developed by Meyerweb, we just took it and wrapped a PHP class around it. This class is also hosted over at phpclasses.org if you prefer to get your stuff on that site, but keep in [...]

PHP Bargraph Generator

September 16th, 2009

This script is loaded using an image tag and generates data based on information added as GET parameters. For example: <img src=”bar.php?value=100&max=256&info” /> Generates: This script requires at least four files to use. The first is an HTML file which loads the image (of course), the second is the background “bar.png” image which the graph [...]

SlickMap CSS — A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers

September 10th, 2009

Just found this awesome sitemap CSS/XHTML markup. What it does is provides an easy way to display an attractive hierarchy of data, specifically used for generating website sitemaps but can also be used for displaying other such data.

Clean URL Generator in Javascript

September 9th, 2009

This function generates clean URL’s, similar to how Wordpress generates URL’s from the title tag.

CodeIgniter User Authentication Model

August 23rd, 2009

Here is the source code for our user authentication model which we use in our CodeIgniter applications for interfacing with our users tables.

Setting custom GoDaddy Nameservers (Video Tutorial)

August 22nd, 2009

This video shows you how to go through the process of setting custom nameservers using GoDaddy. This is a requirement to get your website running if you bought your domain through GoDaddy and have a different hosting server.

PHP Navigation System using Single Entry Point

July 3rd, 2006


How to setup a web application to use a single entry point, reducing code redundancy.

Clean user data using PHP and Regular Expressions

July 1st, 2006


This is a tutorial regarding cleaning/sanitizing user inputted data using PHP and Regular Expressions. You should always clean data from a user and treat it as if it contains bad characters.