Category: Code

Feeds in your Blog with Google Ajax Feed API

Put RSS Feeds in your WordPress blog without extra plugins or jQuery
I started using the Google Ajax Feed API on YeFind and i really like it, so I decided to write a WordPress plugin that will use the API to place rss or xml feeds on your wordpress blog. There are plugins out there […]

Popularity: 2%


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 […]

Popularity: 2%


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 […]

Popularity: 3%


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 […]

Popularity: 4%


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 […]

Popularity: 3%


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 […]

Popularity: 5%