Category: Code
Grabbing only Pictures out of an XML feed
Pulling Images from feeds with Google AJAX Feed API and Regular Expressions
Recently, I have been building a super aggregator and search engine website using various google APIs. The search engine is using the Google search API and most of the rss and xml aggregation is handled using the Google AJAX Feed API. I […]
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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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Toggle classes with Prototype and CSS
Using Prototype to toggle more than one div
The other day I needed to write a function that will hide and show summery content on a button click. Think of a blog where on a page you have like 5 blog entries with titles and excerpts. Imagine that you wanted to have a button […]
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