About

lynx.io was founded by Callum Macrae in 2011 with the aim of providing web developers with a good and reliable source of information, tutorials and tips. On it, you can find articles on a variety of topics, including articles on PHP, JavaScript, development infrastructure, patterns, and third party scripts like CodeIgniter and phpBB. We take requests - if you would like to see an article, just contact us and if we like it, we'll write about it.

lynx.io was not named after a certain text-based web browser, it was named after the mythical creature. A little quote from Wikipedia:

The Lynx is an elusive, ghost-like animal that sees without being seen. […] The Lynx teaches us that even the smallest can succeed in life, and that the world can unfold itself to those who stop and listen.

Contributing to lynx.io

If you wish to write for lynx.io, fork the project on GitHub. Add your article in MarkDown to the articles directory, and send a pull request. Callum will then review your article, and let you know what else to do with it. If you've found a bug in the website, either open an issue on GitHub, or send a pull request containing a fix.

For more information on writing for lynx.io, check out the README on GitHub: https://github.com/callumacrae/lynx.io/blob/master/README.md

Topics we are currently looking for include articles on design (all areas), PHP frameworks (especially CodeIgniter), and phpBB.

Markdown Cheat Sheet

# This is an <h1> tag
## This an <h2> tag
###### This is an <h6> tag

Inline markup: _this text is italic_, **this is bold**, and `code()`.

[Link text](link URL "Optional title")
[Google](http://google.com/ "Google!")

![Alt text](image URL)

![This is a fish](images/fish.jpg)

1. Ordered list item 1
2. Ordered list item 2

* Unordered list item 1
* Unordered list item 2
* Item 2a
* Item 2b

And some code:

// Code is indented by one tab
echo 'Hello world!';

Horizontal rules are done using four or more hyphens:

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> This is a blockquote

This is an <h1> tag

This an <h2> tag

This is an <h6> tag

Inline markup: this text is italic, this is bold, and code().

Link text Google

This is a fish

  1. Ordered list item 1
  2. Ordered list item 2
  • Unordered list item 1
  • Unordered list item 2
    • Item 2a
    • Item 2b

And some code:

// Code is indented by one tab
echo 'Hello world!';

Horizontal rules are done using four or more hyphens:

This is a blockquote

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