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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HTML 5

Cool HTML5 features

January 30th, 2026211612 You can be more specific, for example, by stipulating image/png instead of the wildcard image/* which accepts all kinds of images. When you add the accept attribute and the user is shown the file dialog, he would be able to select only files from that particular type with some browser magic.

HTML 5

Cool HTM5 Features, Part 2

January 29th, 2026231202 The tel input type stands for telephone while the others should be self-evident. It is good to start using them where appropriate as there are subtle differences in the browsers when you use them. For example, on a mobile phone the tel input type might show the numbers first in the user’s browser and the date and time input types would...

JavaScript

Sanitizing input with PHP and JavaScript

January 29th, 2026241989 In PHP, there are a variety of ways in which you can sanitize the user input, depending on your needs. The htmlspecialchars function allows you to transform every special character in HTML into text so that the user cannot enter code in his input. It is good to use the function when you want to show a user input, stored or coming from...

PHP

Passing input parameters in PHP

January 28th, 2026171550 In this brief article, we will see how to work with forms and inputs in PHP.

API

Using the PayPal Payments API with PHP and Guzzle

January 28th, 20261173483 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.

JavaScript

JavaScript tips and tricks

January 28th, 2026111173 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.

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Brief overview of some basic HTML tags