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css html vertical center
seems to break this layout... there must be a better way...
Quick Embed code for Titillium Web Google Font
Quick Embed code for Titillium Web Google Font and a bit of test code to see if the font is working properly. Im not sure if including all styles of this font is a good idea. Who even uses italic thes..
Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: invalid range in character class at offset 4 in simple_html_dom.php on line 722
Initial thought on this error is that there is a version issue. This only happened on version 1.11 for me, will check what other version i have. Yep not sure why but the older version of php ht..
error Warning: getimagesize(uploads/583517f49099a.jpg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in SimpleImage.php on line 1198
i think this error is just caused by a missing file. But there should be some kind of error checking here to not crash the whole site just due to a missing image file. this error is quite hard to fin..
Boots Widget change from widget to cat head and click function
Moving this from the widget area to the bottom, to make it less obvious but still there if needed.
find a text string and replace it in javascript
There is a function in javascript called replace. You can just give it some text and it should replace it with your target text. For example #1 this just runs and replaces the first instance o..
shorten string php, string length php, clip string length php
I'm pretty sure i have done this function before but i cant find it due to the keywords being wrong! Here is a function that takes a string and shortens it and adds .. to the end, with the rest of th..
simplepie error : XML or PCRE extensions not loaded!
using simplepie it does not load the target feed, and does not display any errors. Just nothing. if your feed is init'd with $feed check for feed errors with: $feed ..
Twitter Post Fetcher v18.0.4 - javascript twitter feed fetcher
A few queries showing how to get latest tweets and post likes using the Twitter Post Fetcher v18.0.4 script.
using figcaption and figure for your images
So i usually add images in a <p> tag with just an <img> tag and then <br> and the image caption, but there is actually a tag for this that i should get used to using. The <figcapt..
Search Duplicating Bugs
Still having issues with the word above duplicating, not sure why. Search Page PHP - Get Search Value $search_value_encoded = htmlentities($search_value); Check for Search value, and then ..
Twitter Post Fetcher Script
Uses javascript to fetch a twitter feed from a user screen name. Totally stylable alternative to using the twitter embed code. Your Welcome...
Footer Design and Redesign
I never usually look this far down on the site, but its a bit average... Lets fix it! Some simple changes Just a few elements added and moved around a bit. Added another row to the f..
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set properties of null (setting 'onclick')
I was just testing some code and noticed i had this error on my site. Locate the error in the site code I removed this script, so the whole thing is now not required, as i opted for the au..
check url hash using javascript
What is a url hash? This is a URL Hash. You can add the # symbol on the end of a url and content after it, and this will not effect the content usually, unless the browser is intructed to do somet..
convert a string into its html entitles using php htmlentities function
this takes a html string such as the following example and converts it into its html entities. it will take a character such as < and convert it into < so that the string is not parsed as h..
svg animated line testing - shooting star right
I found this on a random site i was looking at it took me a while to extract the animation, but i found it and its working below. There is shoot right and also shoot left, if you are that way i..
content editable p tag with spell check enabled
im not sure how this is useful, but you can set a p element to content editable so you can change its contents and then also set the spellcheck to true so the browser knows that it should run its spel..
Common and Uncommon Meta Tag's and Social Meta Tags
I am writing an api that checks for meta tags so i thought i would add a list here of some of the common meta tag names that i found. The ones prefixed with og: are facebook and linked in and s..
Console Tips and Tricks
Here are some quick commands for the console. Getting to the console in your browser Press F12 and Find the console tab. That little blue > there is the console. this is in brave or chrome, bu..
how to copy the folder path in finder
Moving from windows to mac is quite a shock, especially when you go from explorer which shows the file and folder path on every window in file explorer. Then we go to mac finder, which is nice, but h..
Spam IP Database and delete button
The Background and Reason for the SPAM IP Database and Delete I actually wrote up half of this article and was still testing the function and lost the whole post, which will teach me for adding it st..
how to embed google fonts icons
For some reason when i go to embed a google font icon, they dont seems to have any obvious way to actually use it, i can find the icons ok here. But then when i go and use it it links to a how to embe..
javascript random string to put on url for cache
I was having a bit of a cache issue with a external css file, so i thought i might fix this by appending a random query string to the file name. This should force the browser to recheck the file each ..
using php parse_url function to remove the query string from a url
I recently had to remove the query string from a url, the bit after the ?key=1 or whatever is after the actual url. I initially thought i could just use a explode function on the ? which would ..
load json data url with jquery
loads a api or json url or endpoint using jquery and console logs the result Tested working on my test json file, check the console and it should be there.
animated duck on footer
Thought this was cool. How do i do it? Page Source: https://www.learninpublic.org/ Copy this section Lets see what is attached to it. So i can see from the classes its a tailwind based ..
twitter json feed testing
just testing using the Twitter Post Fetcher script, seems to be working well.
creating embedded php code from a database field
i actually dont know why i didnt think of doing this earlier, i already have the php code field in these code articles. I thought why not embed this code into an actual file and then run it as a test..
bootstrap dark mode
Bootstrap Darkmode https://github.com/vinorodrigues/bootstrap-dark/blob/master/README.md#method-1 https://github.com/vinorodrigues/bootstrap-dark CSS Dark Mode Preparing for dark mod..
how to bundle css files together using windows or mac
so i was wondering how to do this the other day using some modern end tools, and i found this way just do it straight from mac or windows. lets say i have these css files main.css style.css..
center mode slick zoom testing
update : this is a tricky one to get working! I have done a lot of testing on this one, and got a demo working from a combination of the following links. the demo is still not 100% styled, but its..
still more comment spam
this is getting annoying now. so much spam. i already have the google recapture, but spam is still getting through. who runs this stuff, bots i guess. annoying. update: 10 August 2021 Still..
split a string into links using the comma
this is a common function for some field data, lets say you have a string like this. category one, category two, another category in one field or string but i want it to display like this category ..
add some foundation tabs working example
they show the tabs here on the example page, but there is no full working code... for some reason. So i thought i would add one here. Hmm foundation makes this site look weird, and very bright! :P ..
weird search results being recorded
i noticed some weird search results being recorded like this: the search function should only be recording a result if it finds a result, so this should not be added unless it can actually find thi..
using clamp js to clamp lines of text
there is a css version of this as well but this version works in a greater range of browsers (i think) this one is not working for me... i think the overflow elipsis is still a better option than thi..
Scroll down indicator css javascript and html
I have seen these a couple of times, indictating to the user that there is further content down the page, and they should scroll to view it. Then as you scroll down the indicator dissapears. So we w..
for auto filled fields, need to change the text and background colours
for some reason bootstrap or the browser is doing this to auto filled fields. according to my searching there is a pseudo class added to auto filled fields CSS input:-webkit-autofill { col..
rtrim strip white space or strings from the end of a string
good for removing trailing , or any repeating character from the end of a string
show the difference between two dates in years, months, days, hours and seconds
i modified this code into a function that also detects if there is any values in each item before adding it to the text.
counting the occurrence of words in a multidimensional array
array sorting example The array Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => Some [1] => great-looking [2] => special [3] => editio..
page scroll indicator research
I was wondering the other day how they do those page scroll indicators, i saw one when viewing this site: https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/03/24/the-solution-of-the-zodiac-killers-340-character-cipher..
adding background blur to an image using css fill screen
I had noticed this cool looking effect used on places like google, and other sites that display portrait images, i think i saw it on the google home as well or maybe google photos. Its basicall..
using the last-of-type css selector to remove a border from the last item in a list
i find using the last-of-type css selector quite useful when there is a list or re-occuring items and the last one has to be slightly different from the other ones. This allows me to target the..
add a youtube video preloader function, lazy load youtube [fixed]
I noticed that this list page: https://kruxor.com/list/rs3_efficient_skill/ Loads about 29 (well exactly 29) youtube video embeds and was wondering if there was an easy way to replace these iframes w..
linking search results to view pages [finished] 🤣
I was thinking it might be useful to link the search term to the page, so that it can be found more easily using that search. For example, Link this search text (somehow) to the post page and display..
top bar overflow issues [fixed]
So i was just browsing throught the site checking for random errors, which there are quite a lot. And noticed this one. Quite a large bug caused by overflow issues in the main header, i think this ..
make an image white with css using filter brightness and invert
If you have an icon or something with transparency this can be useful if you dont want to have to edit the image and create another copy of it you can apply the filter brightness and invert. You can ..
background image on 3 boxes not scaling correctly fix
So i had this weird task the other day, where there was three boxes with a background image set. When the screen changed size the image would go out of wack. The fix? Pixels rather than Perce..
generating all css colours with php?
I was looking at doing this just to generate all css colours, i think the only issue is there is a lot! You can do this with rgb(0,0,0) all the way up to rgb(255,255,255) how many seperate colours is..
wordpress get the current category id name and slug
This gets and displays the current category id in a wordpress blog post if you have the current id, if not you can leave the $post_id blank and it should see if there is a category loaded to the curre..
extracting the useful bits of bootstrap
Back in the early instances of bootstrap they used to provide a build system for the individual components. It seems that these days its all or nothing, or use some kind of build tool to include the b..
Bootstrap Darkmode Switch
I have tried this before without success but i googled "Bootstrap Darkmode Switch" and found this repo at the top of the list. So i thought i would give it a try on here and see how it looks. Demo pag..
What is Core?
17 Aug 20 core is php content management system where the content is editable from the front end of the site, so there is no real back end to this system. i designed it to be easily extended so every..
get element by class name with javascript and change it function
You may have seen the get element by id in javascript, which is great when there is only one element but what if you need to get the element using its class name The issue with classes is that they c..
PHP str_replace - find and replace part of a string
basic usage for the str_replace php function str_replace ( mixed $search , mixed $replace , mixed $subject)
Applied Accessibility - Access Keys
Access keys can be applied to link elements and in chrome you can access them by pressing ALT+ SHIFT + [accesskey] for some reason when testing this in chrome the a key was not accessible, but g and ..
Cut a string when it finds a certain character with PHP
ok so lets say we have a string like this: Hi there im a string. I am also part of the same string. And we want to shorten the above string into just: Hi there im a string. This is what i wo..
PHP MySQL vs SQLite Count Items Function
I have been writing a few functions using sqlite and mysql. There are a couple of slight differences which can be seen in this count items_function.
Using Flexbox rather than Floats
So i was still using float left for a bunch of elements i was working on the other day, sometimes it's hard to drop old techniques. What are the actual benefits of using flexbox rather than float lef..
replace anything in brackets in a string using preg_replace regex php
Lets say we have a string like this hi there im a string (not really a string). and we want to remove this bit (not really a string) We can do this using the following regex (preg_replace) $strin..
Get Current Page URL PHP
There is a few methods of getting this but here is a simple one. Replacing the http or https manually. $current_url = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]"; Here is a more complex ..
wordpress enqueue slicknav and slick slider
add this to your theme scripts functions file here is the full one from HTML5 Blank // Load HTML5 Blank scripts (header.php) function html5blank_header_scripts() { if ($GLOBALS['pagenow'] != ..
google map with overlay data
Ever wanted to add a really slightly complex google map to your site? Working Example /* Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div * element that con..
detect window scroll position jquery
This one adds or removes a class if the document is scrolled 50 px near the top of the window. $(window).scroll(function() { if ($(document).scrollTop() > 50) { $('nav').addClass('shrink');..
json loop load elements
Loading json content from a url can be tricky, there are a few different things you need to watch out for. Here is some examples using an example json feed. Load the feed this will load the feed and..
set and check a cookie using js cookie
this library makes setting and checking cookies so easy its amazing! include this script <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/js-cookie/2.1.4/js.cookie.m..
using getElementById and innerHTML to change the html of content no jquery
this is pretty simple, but i always forget it so ill add it here document.getElementById("theid").innerHTML = "the new content"; heres how it works, add a div with an id of theid Example .. <d..
meta refresh reload page
this can use a meta tag to get the browser to reload the current page. the following code will reload the page every 30 seconds. usually you have to add meta tags into the header of your page, not ..
video embed no controls
embed a video, for use as a background or a slide element, or wherever you need a large video. I found that there was a bug in chrome (which is probably fixed now) that was ignoring the autoplay tag ..
truncate text long titles with text overflow ellipsis
this one can be useful for fitting text into smaller places without it looking broken. text-overflow: ellipsis; this basically adds the 3 dots where the end of the text used to be... Also if you are ..
css grid for layouts and how to use it
Note: Added version 2 of this with no rows for the grid css grid for layouts with no rows so there is this thing called the CSS Grid Layout, and apparently we dont need a framework for grids anymore...
why are people so amazed that a column layout can have a full width element
Is it because its inside a grid still? i must me missing something anyway i have been noticing that there is this post (and this one) going around showing that you can break out of a css grid and go ..
targeting the printed version of a page with media print
there are 2 ways to target the printed version of a webpage, you can do it with a @media print query inside your css, or you can link the whole style sheet and target the print media. target print ..
