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(XSLT) XML structure to Tree View

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:15:15 GMT

a perfect tree representation of a XML structure (with i, l and t and empty node images)

(PHP) Fix CDATA blocks in XML files after reformatting with Tidy

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:43:33 GMT

For some reason tidy inserts new lines before/after

(PHP) PHP Exec debugging

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:42:55 GMT

easy way of catching and displaying errors and return values from a exec() command back in PHP.

(PHP) PHP Exec debugging

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:41:58 GMT

easy way of catching and displaying errors and return values from a exec() command back in PHP.

(jQuery) Access HTML5 data attribute with jQuery

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:39:12 GMT

obviously one can access HTML5's data attribute super easy in jQuery

(jQuery) Foreign characters

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:35:03 GMT

a list of special characters for the use together with alphanumeric plugin and it's allow parameter. This shall make sure that foreigners will be able to use your name/lastname fields.

(SQL) Manual activation of a module in Joomla!

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:42:10 GMT

in order to avoid the .zip madness when creating a new module, you can make it available in the backend by firing a simple SQL in your DB. (mod_media is the name of the folder that holds it)

(Bash) Change Permission

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:44:50 GMT

some helpful chomod commands

(XSLT) XSLT Pagination

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:56:00 GMT

This Pagination XSLT is working just great for me. Been using it in numerous projects.

(PHP) Simplepie with fixed Cache directory handling

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:00:30 GMT

Simplepie per default uses relative paths to generate the cache filename. Whenever I use Simplepie I run into the same problem, that the cache directory can't be located. This is why I modify the file everytime. Here's my version (with a hardcoded path which you'll want to replace with your desired location).

(PHP) Joomla! K2 image naming...

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:19:11 GMT

If you wanna use images stored by K2 in your custom scripts/classes you'll need to know how K2 generates the names... (took me quite a bit to find that, because they're not stored in the _k2_items table)

(Bash) Find out Linux distro and name

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:07:36 GMT

(Bash) Remove RSA key for ssh

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:06:01 GMT

(SQL) Search and Replace in MySQL Databases

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:58:42 GMT

(PHP) Example XML representation of Zend_Form

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:30:17 GMT

the link explains how the XML is generated.

(PHP) Zend_Form Object to XML Data Representation (for use in XSLT)

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:10:07 GMT

Turns a Zend_Form object into XML data. Click the associated link to see an Example XML result and a XSL Stylesheet used to display regular HMTL.

(JavaScript) JS email validation

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:46:49 GMT

(JavaScript) getting an objects key values

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:29:19 GMT

I wanted to pass a form submission (array) as a JSON object to another function. Some form field were created with JS, to identify them their names have been concatenated with unique IDs, etc. In order to access values of that JSON obj I needed to find out the key names in order to get data out of it.

(JavaScript) getting an objects key values

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:28:28 GMT

(PHP) Using PHP in XPath

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:14:24 GMT

I'm using this out of laziness. PHP is slowing things down here, since it's not as close to C as XPath. A better solution would be to have an attribute specifically for search purposes (either in upper or lowercase).