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Dynamic Variables in PHP

sp — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:43:51 +0000

When you start creating advanced applications that require different types of data that may be defined by a developer using your system you come across a very interesting issue.

Dynamic Variables...

They are quite easy to master, just look at the below example.

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CODE:

$foo = 'howdy';
$$foo = 'not howdy';
echo $$foo; //should return not howdy

Learn more by going here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php

The Dancing Storm Trooper is back!

sp — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:48:10 +0000

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0dIpYw75jA&feature=user

Document your PHP Application

sp — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:28:41 +0000

http://www.phpdoc.org/

Easy, Fast, and Efficient.

Just make sure your code is developed within a standard and you comment very well.

Casting variables in Javascript

sp — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:23:06 +0000

In some situations we are required to take a value that was intended to be a string and convert it to a numerical value for calculations.

In this situation we would implement a form of variable control called "Casting".

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CODE:

//String
var string = "5.00";
//What would happen if we wanted to add another 5.00 to string?
//Well, it would append the 5.00 to the original 5.00 - Example: 5.005.00
//We need to Cast "string" so that we can do numerical calculations.
var numeric = parseFloat(string)+5.00;
//You can use
//parseFloat - number with a decimal point.
//parseInt - whole number.

Simple and effective.

Display PHP errors for a single page

sp — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:12:42 +0000

How do you show errors for a single php script when the entire server has the enviorment variable "display_errors" set to 0?

Simple - place the below code at the top of your script.

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CODE:

ini_set("display_errors", 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set - allows you to mess with your php.ini file.
error_reporting - sets what kind of errors you wish to show.

Wordpress Plugins - Create a wordpress plugin from scratch

sp — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:35:06 +0000

My current employer is in need of a very simple advertisement plugin to be created for their WordPress system - so of course I have decided to use this as an opportunity to create a custom plugin for experimental reasons.

Plugin Title: Make Me Money

Lets see if it does haha.

TutorialMachine.com - Launches!

sp — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:02:33 +0000

TutorialMachine.com has finally launched, time to start loading Tutorials from photoshop to css design.

YUI Animation - Update

sp — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:39:10 +0000

Please review this great example by Dav Glass:

http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/animseq/

YUI resizeAll Function

sp — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:42:15 +0000

Just an example.

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CODE:

/**
* Collects all inner elements and resizes accordingly.
* @method resizeAll
*/
this.resizeAll = function () {
var tempEL = el;
var tempObj = tempEL.getElementsByTagName("img");
for(i=0;ilength;i++){
var tempAnimation = new YAHOO.util.Anim(tempObj[i].getAttribute("id"), this.attributes, this.duration, this.method);
tempAnimation.animate();
}
var tempObj = tempEL.getElementsByTagName("input");
for(i=0;ilength;i++){
var tempAnimation = new YAHOO.util.Anim(tempObj[i].getAttribute("id"), this.attributes, this.duration, this.method);
tempAnimation.animate();
}
}

Htaccess and Htpasswd creator

sp — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:19:53 +0000

I am always on the lookout for a nice simple htpasswd generator and I found a pretty nice one.

http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/

Enjoy!