MDB2 PEAR MDB2 is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers. It provides a common API for all supported RDBMS. The main difference to most other DB abstraction packages is that MDB2 goes much further to ensure portability. MDB2 provides most of its many features optionally that can be used to […]
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Bubble menu javascript or playing with YUI’s event delegation
Event delegation refers to the use of a single event listener on a parent object to listen for events happening on its children (or deeper descendants). Event delegation allows developers to be sparse in their application of event listeners while still reacting to events as they happen on highly specific targets. This proves to be […]
AJAX image cropper with YUI and PHP
This post will show you how to build an AJAX crop image tool using the image cropper control from YUI library and PHP. If you are unsure of what PHP is, we touch upon it quickly in our Bluehost guide, click here to read more. The ImageCropper Control from the YUI library gives you an interactive interface for getting the […]
Expanding/collapsing javascript menu
In this post I’ll show you how to create an expanding/collapsing menu like Slashdot left menu used to be, using the YUI library and Dav GlassYUI effects widget. The HTML markup for our menu is : <div id=”menu”> <h1 id=”menu-title”>Menu</h1> <div id=”menu-links”> <ul> <li>Home</li> <li>About</li> <li>CSS</li> </ul> </div> </div> We use 2 div tags, one for holding the menu itself and the […]
Geolocate your visitors with PHP (part 1)
In this short post, I’ll show you how to geolocate your visitors with PHP. First of all let’s have a look at what you’ll need : PEAR GeoIP MaxMind GeoLite Country Installing PEAR GeoIP Using your console or using the command prompt type : pear install http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_GeoIP-1.0.0RC1.tgz If you used our 70% off coupon for Bluehost […]