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Big Questions, Short Answers
There are a lot of "deep" questions when it comes to JavaScript libraries, CSS, server-side languages, and programming philosophies. Rather than drone on and write a novel, I decided to answer some big questions with few words. MooTools, jQuery, or Prototype? Moo first, jQuery second --...
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Listen for the Delete Key Using MooTools
I saw an interesting ticket hit the MooTools Lighthouse system recently. A user reported that they could not use the following code snippet to listen for the delete key: While that generally works, it does not work for the delete key because "delete" is a reserved...
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Change the PHP Query String Variable Separator Using php.ini
As you probably know, the default PHP query string variable separator is the "&" character. One annoyance with using the "&" character is that, in order to have valid XHTML syntax, you need to output your &'s as "&". If you'd like to avoid...
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PHP: Get WordPress Post Categories
When I put together my WordPress theme, I wanted to put all of my post categories in the footer of the page and in two column format. Obviously there isn't a built-in WordPress function that will format the categories the way I wanted to so...
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Create a Double Border Image Effect Using CSS
CSS doesn't allow for too many cross-browser compatible effects. Webkit has added some webkit- CSS effects, but I'm talking about a more toned-down, subtle effect. Did you know you can add a double-border effect to your images using basic, cross-browser CSS? Let me...
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Using MooTools to Instruct Google Analytics to Track Outbound Links
Google Analytics provides a wealth of information about who's coming to your website. One of the most important statistics the service provides is the referrer statistic -- you've gotta know who's sending people to your website, right? What about where you send others though?
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Prevent Early Form Submission by Hijacking the Enter Key
A customer asked me to create a timecard form a few years ago. Everything with the form worked great but users would mistakenly press the enter key before their form was completed. They asked that I make the enter key move the cursor to...
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Send Files via FTP Using PHP
Sending files to a server via FTP is an essential ability of any web developer or designer. Of course, we all use glossy FTP clients like WS_FTP and FireFTP, but what about FTP automation? You can use PHP to FTP files from one server...
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Fading Links Using jQuery: dwFadingLinks
UPDATE: The jQuery website was down today which caused some issues with my example. I've made everything local and now the example works. Earlier this week, I posted a MooTools script that faded links to and from a color during the mouseover and mouseout events.
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MooTools HTML Police: dwMarkupMarine
We've all inherited rubbish websites from webmasters that couldn't master valid HTML. You know the horrid markup: paragraph tags with align attributes and body tags with background attributes. It's almost a sin what they do. That's where dwMarkupMarine comes in.
