Ivan Dimov, Author at PHP Lift

Ivan Dimov

Ivan is a student of IT, a freelance web designer/developer and a tech writer. He deals with both front-end and back-end stuff. Whenever he is not in front of an Internet-enabled device he is probably reading a book or traveling. You can find more about him at: http://www.dimoff.biz. facebook, twitter

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JavaScript

Useful JavaScript globals

March 22nd, 202647934 Math.random() - generates a randon number between 0 and 1. You can multiply the number to get a number in a different range. Math.floor(numberHere) - it would trim down the decimal part of a float and the end result is always an integer Math.ceil(numberHere) - it would give the integer to which a decimal is closest to;...

PHP

Useful PHP built-in functions

March 19th, 2026311318 Some useful PHP built-in functions explained below very helpful for beginners.

PHP

PHP Basics

March 19th, 2026211538 In this article we will teach you some PHP Basics like Data types, Mathematical operators, Comparison operators, Comments, Conditional Statements, Loops, Global functions and Functions.

Framework

Useful Laravel functions and methods, Part-1

March 19th, 2026181022 Laravel is one of the best PHP Framework so we are going to show you some cool functions and methods in this article I hope you like it.

JavaScript

Working with dates in PHP and JavaScript

March 18th, 2026201697 You can use the date function to generate a date string of your desired format. As a second parameter, you can add a UNIX timestamp representing the date that you wish the string to hold.

HTML

Brief overview of some basic HTML tags

March 18th, 202625833 Some basic HTML tags developers/designers use regularly explained below. 1. - you can use it for longer, multi-lines quotations from a different source than the rest of the content. They are usually indented by browsers

CSS 3

Cool CSS3 features

March 18th, 2026251925 CSS3 variables are incoming. One example is the currentColor variable which allows you to give the current color of the element (the color property) to other properties, it works as an alias, sparing you from writing again the color’s code. It can be used in the following way:

JavaScript

JavaScript tips and tricks

March 16th, 2026121182 Use objects/classes to encapsulate your application logic and try not to pollute the global variable scope as this can cause frustrating problems such as libraries not working from variables being overridden. Below is an example how you can structure your application’s logic in a simple way without polluting the global scope.

API

Using the PayPal Payments API with PHP and Guzzle

March 16th, 20261193506 Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services. We are using Guzzle to integrate PayPal API.

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