In PHP there is a very handy function called ucfirst which
Returns a string with the first character of str capitalized, if that character is alphabetic.
Needed that in JavaScript, but discovered there was no such thing.
Would you like to grab some server-side data through an AJAX call? For example by using the handy jQuery.ajax method?
A good data format to use then is JavaScript Object Notation, more commonly known as JSON. Providing data in the JSON format with PHP is super duper simple 
So, I was fooling around the other day with an HTML table and wanted to make the odd rows slightly darker. Figured I could use for example an 80% transparent black PNG to do that (or could have just assigned a darker color, but where’s the fun in that?). Either way, ended up making a little something that I thought I could share just for the fun of it. I learned a few things, so maybe someone else can too
So, here’s how to make a small transparent PNG filler image on-the-fly using PHP
