Displaying Records in Multiple Columns Using PHP

For this article, i have selected a table members, containing each member's pic and some other text detail. The members will be shown in multiple columns as shown in the picture below. The technique is to use 2 loops (one nested inside the other). The outter loop creates rows and the inner loop creates columns. The only thing we have to take care of is the inner loop creates equal number of columns for each row. If there are no more records the inner loop should print a blank column....

Multiply in Excel

Multiplication is essential in Excel. Luckily it is extremely easy. To multiply numbers or cells in Excel, we must use a basic formula. All Formula’s in Excel begin with “=” Multiplication is essential in Excel.  Luckily it is extremely easy. To multiply numbers or cells in Excel, we must use a basic formula.  All Formula’s in Excel begin with “=” The asterisk “*” is used as the multiplication symbol between cells. In...

Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr

Location, location, location! Just as location is king in real estate, search plus location awareness can yield significant dividends in helping users effectively and efficiently find information. For instance, if you are a business-directory provider (such as a "Yellow Pages" site), when a user searches for a plumber, the site should return results for plumbers near the user's home. If you run a tourism site, you might want to allow travelers to search for places of interest near their...

Help With Modify Commands

Basic Modify Commands Here we'll cover the modify tools, which give us control over simple shapes we have created. As the name suggests - we can modify drawing elements. This is what the modify toolbar looks like (if you don't see it, check the modify box in 'view - toolbars'): The modify tools (from left to right): Erase, Copy, Mirror,...

The Extend Command

Introduction AutoCAD drawings are rarely completed simply by drawing lines, circles etc. Most likely you will need to Modify these basic drawing objects in some way in order to create the image you need. AutoCAD provides a whole range of modify tools such as Move, Copy, Rotate and Mirror. As you can see, the command names are easily understandable. However, the way these commands work is not always obvious. This tutorial is designed to show you how all of the Modify commands work. If...

AutoCAD Creating Custom Bitmap Materials Tutorial

This tutorial describes how to create custom bitmap based materials in AutoCAD and how to create the bitmap tile from scratch in Photoshop. If you would like to follow this tutorial closely, you can download the Garden drawing used in the examples. See Download Sample Data, below. In many cases, rendering using object colours or the use of materials from the AutoCAD Material Library is all that's required to produce a semi-realistic render of a scene. However, sometimes you might want ...

Android & iPhone browser wars: Intro to the WebKit

Introduction Combined, the iPhone and Android platforms have more than 100,000 application titles available for download across their respective app stores. Native applications are those created with a platform's SDK, then compiled and installed to a device. These native applications provide thorough access to a device's inherent capabilities, including features like wireless networking, Bluetooth, data...

Create an old TDK cassette

Do you have any of those at home? Even if they are considered retro elements, there are probably still a lot of people that continue to use them. Because retro style is very popular right now and besides that, they are just so nice! In this tutorial I’ll show you to create a standard D-C60 TDk cassette in just some minutes. Below is the final image we will be working towards. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4 Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate Estimated...

How to Create a Climbing Rope Pattern Brush

A  simple 2-point-path can be transformed into a powerful Pattern Brush. The virtual Climbing Rope may not save your life, but the technique behind this tutorial may help save a lot of time. Let's get started! Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Vector Plus for just 9$ a month. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS3 (MAC...

How to Create a Stained Glass Effect in Illustrator

This tutorial shows how to create a stained glass effect in Adobe Illustrator. The method is rather quick and simple, but the outcome looks very nice - especially when you use a beautiful image for reference. Let's get started! Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Vector Plus for just 9$ a month. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe...