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Did I mention that our new website launched? Primal Screen website (100% of code and 75% of design by yours truly). Oh, and I’ll never write another website in that bloated carcass of a useable PHP framework: Zend Framework. My … Continue reading
Posted in Actionscript/Flash, CodeIgniter, HTML/CSS, HTML5, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, Zend
Tagged CSS, html, html5, javascript, jquery, js, primal, primalscreen, screen, zend
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If you can’t find the PHP version by logging into your web hosting control panel, or if you just want to find it out the geeky way, by asking the server itself, here’s how. 1. Make a new php file. … Continue reading
I already wrote a post about how to do this same thing in CodeIgniter (my PHP framework of choice), but what about Zend (a HUGE, bloated, hard to follow framework I don’t really like, but have to work in). The … Continue reading
Posted in PHP, Zend
Tagged action, controller, get, getRequest, method, name, php, zend
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I moved DreamHost earlier this week, and so far, it’s been great. SVN built into the hosting is fantastic, and the UI in their control panel is much easier to use than the various CPanel implementations most hosts use, and … Continue reading
Posted in CodeIgniter, PHP
Tagged codeigniter, dreamhost, htaccess, problem, query_string, redirect, request_uri, rewriterule, root, subfolder, uri_protocol
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EDIT: I guess you don’t need to store the last entry time in a cookie, storing it in a simple js var works fine. I’ve updated the code to reflect this. EDIT2: If your server isn’t doing a good job … Continue reading
Actionscript/Javascript: var n = 10; while (n–) { // looped code } PHP: $n = 10; while ($n–) { // looped code }
Posted in Actionscript/Flash, Javascript, PHP
Tagged code, for, i, loop, n, running, simple, simplest, times, while, x
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So maybe you want to just declare a variable once in PHP at the top of your stylesheet: $theColor = “#363636″; And then when you need to refer to it a dozen times, spread throughout your stylesheet, you can, and … Continue reading
Posted in CodeIgniter, HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP, Zend
Tagged codeigniter, CSS, css variables, generate, header, php, php generate css, stylesheet, variables, zend
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I have a javascript/jQuery ajax function that tries to post some data to a URL in my CodeIgniter installation, and it fails. Looking at the console it gives me this message XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www.DOMAIN.com/chris/calendar/async/update/assignment/325. Origin http://DOMAIN.com is not allowed … Continue reading
Posted in CodeIgniter, HTML/CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP
Tagged Access-Control-Allow-Origin, ajax, codeigniter, headers, javascript, jquery, load, php, XMLHttpRequest
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CodeIgniter Active Record aliasing column names to prevent overwriting (especially columns named id)
On a recent project I set up all my tables so that they had a primary key, auto-incrementing column named id. I figured this was a good practice, since it meant that all update queries could just reference the id … Continue reading
Posted in CodeIgniter, PHP
Tagged active record, alias, aliasing, codeigniter, collision, column, id, join, overwriting, php
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Gets the current controller: $this->router->class; Gets the current method/action: $this->router->method; I like to use these to automatically import a CSS stylesheet to every page. Something like this: <?=link_tag(site_url(‘css/’.$this->router->class.’.css’));?> <?=link_tag( site_url(‘css/’.$this->router->class.’/’.$this->router->method.’.css’) );?> Which ends up looking like this: <link href=”http://www.chrissilich.com/css/controllername.css” rel=”stylesheet” … Continue reading