Since I had some problems with YUI slider, I decided to write a YUI-based numeric stepper that allows users to select values within a predefined range. To instantiate the widget include the following files : <!– CSS –> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”stepper/stepper.css” /> <!– Dependencies –> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.5.2/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js”></script> <!– Stepper source file –> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”stepper/stepper-min.js”></script> Then […]
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 […]
HTML entities within XSL
You want to have in your XSL stylesheet but you’re getting an error, just put these few lines of code at the top, before the tag : <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp “ ”> <!ENTITY AElig “Æ”> <!ENTITY AMP “&#38;”> <!ENTITY Aacute “Á”> <!ENTITY Acirc “”> <!ENTITY Agrave “À”> <!ENTITY Alpha “Α”> <!ENTITY Aring “Å”> <!ENTITY […]
10 starting signs of a good web developer (php version)
Nowadays many people call themselves PHP programmers / web developers as soon as they know a bit of Frontpage or using Dreamweaver to generate the code for them. But are they really good web developers? Here’s my top 10 characteristics of good web developers, feel free to comment. 1. Ability to hand code Instead of […]
Simple YUI Cookie example – javascript text magnifier for your page
Since YUI 2.5.0 there’s the Cookie utility and at this time of posting, it’s still in beta version. I’ll show you how we can use this simple utility to write a small javascript app. The piece of code we will be writing, using the YUI library (my favorite), will allow users to increase/decrease their font size for a block […]
htaccess Cheatsheet
Here is a simple cheatsheet for the .htaccess file: Enable Directory Browsing Options +Indexes ## block a few types of files from showing IndexIgnore *.wmv *.mp4 *.avi Disable Directory Browsing Options All -Indexes Customize Error Messages ErrorDocument 403 /forbidden.html ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html ErrorDocument 500 /servererror.html Get SSI working with HTML/SHTML AddType text/html .html AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler […]