Archive for June, 2008

PHP Query String without Question Mark

Nice urls without question mark in PHP
Most of the time when I want to pass a variable in php I just use a question mark, you can see an example of this on my flickr original image url retriever. But, it’s always nice to keep your urls clean and get rid of the question […]

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Characters Remaining Function for Forms

JavaScript Script to Count Remaining Characters
Sometimes you need to limit the amount of characters allowed in a textarea, but the other day, I needed to go one step further and display the amount of characters left in real time as the user writes inside the form. This makes your website very interactive and the […]

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quickSlide - CSS only Tabber and Slideshow

Simple HTML SlideShow based on Anchor tags
There are many slideshow galleries and scripts on the internet and many of them are super fancy with cool animations and nice features. Sometimes, however, you just need a simple solution to a problem. I wanted to create a simple slideshow without any JavaScript.
I found […]

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Image Cache with cURL and fopen

Image Caching Function Script with cURL
I am building a website that pulls images from another website and needs to cache them locally. I needed a script that will allow me to reference an image living on an external website via a function that will cache the image locally and rewrite the image source to […]

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Interesting Data Displayed on World Maps

Understanding the World via Map Images
Some information or data is best represented graphically on a Map. If you are ever wondering how data like wealth, military spending, alcohol consumption, happiness, etc looks visually on a World Map than you might enjoy this post. It’s a collection of images of World Maps I collected […]

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New “WordPress Template” Theme for WP

Latest Free WP Theme: WordPress Template
Works with latest WordPress 2.5.1
WordPress 2.5 came out a little while ago and I didn’t really have time to check it out and update my blogs, however, I did checkout the new wordpress homepage. To say the least, I was very impressed with the new redesign. The style […]

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