Darren W. Hedlund

Company: Microcyb.com

Author Bio:
Darren Hedlund is a freelance Web developer, writer, and data analyst. Darren has a degree in Computer Information Science and has spent the last 15 years developing application and environments from hand held, windows, web, virtual science, gaming, artificial intelligence and graphics design.

Darren's coding knowledge ranges from C+, Visual Basic, .NET, PHP, JSP, REXX, KIXX, and many others. His graphical and environmental knowledge stems in Macromedia Flash, 3D studio Max, Curious Labs Poser, Adobe Photoshop, and many others. Darren works in many platforms ranging from database, visual design, and, system development.

Tutorials written by Darren W. Hedlund:

Adding Custom Text to an Image Using PHP
This little script will show you how to add a custom text to an image loaded onto your page. Using the PHP_GD function called ImageCreateFromjpeg we will add a custom text to an already existing image file.
Tuesday, 21st June 2005

Basic Control Structures in PHP
This article covers the basics of program control structures, including conditional statements and looping using the if and while statements in PHP. It also contains a brief note regarding embedding code blocks within other code blocks.
Monday, 20th June 2005

Building a Javascript Array
Here are the basics of how to make a simple javascript array for your HTML page. To get you started, first you have to call the scripting method you are going to use. In this case we will call javascripting method.
Tuesday, 29th March 2005

Control Structures and While Loops
In this lesson we discussed the "foreach" loop which in my opinion is the simplest type of loop. A lot of people seem to agree though that the "while" loop is one of the easiest. The difference between the "foreach" loop and the "while" loop is...
Monday, 20th June 2005

Convert Images to Thumbnails Images Using PHP
This image convertor uses features to automatically change a normal image to a smaller thumbnailed version of that image.
Tuesday, 22nd March 2005

Create and Use a User Input Form
So how do you access the information you submitted via HTML in the script (script.php)? Well amazingly, there are several ways to get the information. It's up to you to decide which method best suites you, and then go with that.
Monday, 20th June 2005

Create Cascading Style Sheet - CSS backgrounds
With a few simple attributes, CSS can be used to control the background of most any item on a web page. The background of heavily used tags for page structure, including div, p, and td can be controlled by applying a style with the following background attributes.
Tuesday, 29th March 2005

Creating a Drop Down Selection with an Array
In this section we will show you the basics of making and creating a simple drop down selection array.
Wednesday, 16th March 2005

Creating a PHP Form
Extracting form variables when programming in Perl is a real task. The variables can be extracted fairly painlessly using the CGI.pm modules, but there is a lot of work going on under the hood. In PHP form variables just spring to life. If a form has an input statement.
Monday, 20th June 2005

Creating a PHP Looping Statement
Creating a PHP loop to go through a certain part of code to gather more information than just a single part of data is essential to many programmers. These methods are used for searching iside a database, counting through information, and other useful functions. Here are some simple ways that you can create a while lopp in PHP.
Tuesday, 29th March 2005

Creating an Image Gallery with PHP
This tutorial demonstrates how you can create your own basic image gallery using PHP.
Monday, 20th June 2005

Creating and Accessing MySQL Data with PHP
This tutorial will hopefully teach you some basics of how to access data with your PHP scripting to gather information with in a MySQL database.
Monday, 20th June 2005

Displaying Load Time with PHP
When developing PHP-driven websites its often very useful to know how long your pages took to process. This not only gives you some idea of the efficiency of your websites and of the server running them, but may help you diagnose problems, benchmark code corrections/additions, etc.
Tuesday, 21st June 2005

Generate Random Quotes with PHP
The following will show you how to generate simple random quotes using PHP.
Wednesday, 30th March 2005

Hightlight or Censor Words in PHP
This tutorial will show you how to load a flat file and parse text to highlight or even censor out a word.
Monday, 20th June 2005

How to Make a Drop Down Template Theme Selector with PHP
This tutorial will help teach you how to make your site have the option to allow the users to choose the look and feel of the site using PHP, and MySQL wrapped around a HTML template.
Monday, 20th June 2005

How to make a Hit Counter with PHP
In this lesson we are going to make a very simple hitcounter in PHP.A hitcounter is a script, that counts the number of visitors to your site.
Monday, 20th June 2005

How to make your own PHP template script
Many people ask how do you create a template system in PHP. It is true their are many different ways, but this will hopefully show you the basic understanding of this type of method.
Wednesday, 16th March 2005

How to Setup and use Printing Variables in PHP
A variable, is something which can hold a dynamic value. A variable is distinguished from other things because it starts with a dollar sign. For example, "$name" could be a variable which would most likely hold the name of something, someone, or someplace.
Tuesday, 21st June 2005

How to Setup Variable Scope and Global Declarations
This is a very basic introduction to scope; I neglected to mention a lot of things when writing this particular tutorial to try to keep things as simple as possible.
Tuesday, 21st June 2005

How to Upload Files with PHP
This tutorial will cover how to make a basic PHP upload script. You can easily convert or change it. You need a PHP enabled host, the ability to upload, and HTML or PHP knowledge to change the script around to fit your needs.
Tuesday, 21st June 2005

Making a JavaScript Tree Menuing System
This tutorial will show you the basics of using some simple JavaScripting methods to create a drop down menu system for your site. This will teach you the simple tricks of using Javascript code in order to display simple yet efftive drop down menus for your users.
Thursday, 31st March 2005

Object Oriented Programming with PHP
Object oriented programming (OOP) is a commonly used term when discussing modern programming techniques. One of the things that makes humans stand out is the ability to categorise - we put objects into categories of similar type of function.
Tuesday, 21st June 2005

PHP Tips and Tricks
These are some common PHP and MySQL coding tips. I believe these are good do's and don'ts, that most experienced coders would agree with, and not just my opinions.
Monday, 20th June 2005

Storing Images in a Database
This tutorial teaches you how to upload images into a MySQL database using PHP. Even though it sounds complicated, it is fairly simple and has many practical applications. One example of an application would be Forum User Images.
Tuesday, 21st June 2005

The Explode Function, Split a String by String
Learn how to use the php explode function to split your strings and obtain more detailed information from them. This tutorial gives you a simple guide to using the explode function with examples.
Wednesday, 16th March 2005

Using Control Structures and Foreach Loops in PHP
The type of control structure we're going to discuss is the 'foreach' loop. The 'foreach' loop allows you to iterate over each value of an array. The 'foreach' loop has two syntaxes, one for arrays you might have initialized, and one more specifically for associated arrays which you might have initialized.
Tuesday, 21st June 2005

Using PHP Operators
This operator allowed us to assign values to variables and arrays (which we recently learned about). The other operator we discussed was the array operator.
Monday, 20th June 2005

Using Sessions to Make a PHP Login Script
To begin this tutorial in PHP sessions, you must first make sure that your web server (ie. apache) has the options to allow session with the configuration. Note: people using apache and php under a win32 enviorment must manually configure this option.
Monday, 20th June 2005

Using Symbols in Flash
In Flash, a symbol represents a movie clip, button or graphic that you have created. Symbols make it easier to use the same object over and over again without having to re-create it, which is a waste of time. In this section, we will learn how to create, modify and remove symbols you have created.
Monday, 4th April 2005

Using the Flash Toolbar
One of the things I really like about Flash is how easy it is to draw basic animation with the tools provided. Let's take a look at these tools:
Friday, 3rd December 2004

Using Variable Referencing
Occasionally you'll find yourself asking questions which would make your life easier. One of these things is referencing. As far as application uses go, there is no real need to ever reference a variable (or at least I do not think there is). You reference if you're used to it and comfortable with it, and don't if otherwise.
Wednesday, 30th March 2005

Verify a User’s Email Address with PHP
So you thought that it would be nice to publish a monthly newsletter for your ever growing web site. You create the registration page, and before you know it, your database is being filled with eager email address just waiting for your newsletter. Further, you notice that your favorite superheroes are among your top subscribers.
Tuesday, 29th March 2005

Writing Classes in Javascript
Wrtting classes in Javascript doesn't give full functionality of an object oriented language, but it at least gives data hiding and encapsulation which are very useful specially when javascript is not a strongly typed language.
Monday, 4th April 2005