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foundation base html template - foundation template
just a basic html template with foundation and the required javascripts, good for a starter html page using foundation framework.
What is a Stateless Functional Component in React
What is a Stateless Functional Component? A stateless component is one that can recive data and render it, but it does not manage the provided data or track changes to it. This method creates ..
How do Self-Closing JSX Tags Work?
So in JSX all the tags must be closed, other wise it can break the element. for example: <div> must have a closing </div> and also for elements like <br> and <hr> must include..
How to Define a HTML Class in JSX in React
When writing JSX you cant add classes like you would in HTML so this code would not work: JSX <div class="my-class"></div> Instead we have to use className. JSX uses camel case for a l..
How to Render HTML Elements to the DOM with React
Once you have a JSX element defined you can write it to the page with ReactDOM.render(componentToRender, targetNode), In this example we are targeting the div with the id challenge-node. JSX ..
How to Add Comments in JSX
To put comments inside JSX, you use the syntax {/* */} to wrap around the comment text. You do actually need the curley brackets, and have to add it under the other elements for this to wor..
Create a Complex JSX Element
JSX must return a single element, so you must wrap your items in a div element you cant just return a bunch of p tags. Define a new constant JSX that renders a div which con..
Create a Simple JSX Element
The current code uses JSX to assign a div element to the constant JSX. Replace the div with an h1 element and add the text Hello JSX! inside it.
adding react with JSX using babel
just wanted to see how JSX would work with react and babel, so this way you can write JSX and babel compiles it for use with react. This is apparently not a good way to do things and can be qui..
adding react to a website in 3 steps
i was just researching how to add react to a website, and i thought i would need babel to translate or compile the JSX code, but apparently you do not need this... So ill test this here and see..
using babel for react compiling in browser
this is currently just an idea, as i saw that codepen uses babel to run react i was wondering i can do the same thing here and then just write normal react script and have babel compile it. so ..
react hello world with time and date updating
here is a react hello world with the date and time updating on setInterval 1000 miliseconds. Again with react it has to be compiled from JSX for it to work, so i have included the original and ..
react hello world with variable name
i was just testing some of the hello world examples on the react site, and as they use JSX they cant be directly entered into your code, so you need to run a pre compiler (not sure of the exact term f..
react basic hello world
the most basic hello world using react js
console table rather than console log for javascript objects and arrays
so i just saw on a tweet, that you can use console.table and i cant wait to try it out! good thing i already have a test object and array ready to go!
timeline class and function
this is a class extend that generates a timeline based on structured data and order's the items by year decending. this code will not work out of the box as it has other requirements, but it is a goo..
bootstrap alert template
here is a templated bootstrap alert where you can switch the alert type with the @alert_type variable. Here are the different alerts: primary secondary success danger warning info light dar..
bootstrap list group card with footer
a list group within a card and also a footer on the card for additional links.
list group bootstrap template
this generates a bootstrap list group basic template layout, nice option for lists with links in them rather than using a ul li style list, this makes them into neater looking elements so rather than ..
list group card item template
this is a list group item for usage with the template list group or list group card template.
php html template class system
just a simple php templating system to extract your html files from within the php code into external files, makes things (or your code) a bit neater.
list group card template
list group card template for usage with the php template class
views list function for checking what views have been made on the current week
this is related to the views class that i added with monthly week number and yearly views, this is the function that i use to extract the top viewed pages for the week num, month num and year num. I ..
load array load all items from an array while in a sqlite load sql loop
i find this useful when loading a bunch of items in a class while looping through data, rather than assigning variables manually i just add the array of item names into the class to begin with and the..
Idea: Google Font Dropdown Selector Code
just an idea at the moment, a dropdown list of google fonts and when selected it loads that selected font using the @import css tag. Loading the fonts Gist : not tested https://gist.github.com..
create a 200 character summary from a longer html string
this is a quick function that can create a 200 word plain text summary from a html string. Also added the option to specify the char length of the string. Function function create_summary($htm..
twitter social sharing meta tags
I had done this one so many times on client sites I actually forgot that i had not applied it to my own site! Doh! Anyway this is the tag setup i use for adding the title, url, author and featured im..
responsive three box section with tabular data or table data
here is a section in foundation with 3 hero boxes with images on top, and then a title and some tabular (is that the same as table?) data in each box, so could be good for some kinda products and then..
stackable bio or biography list with portrait image title and text
a nice easily stackable bio or biography list done in foundation, just duplicate the bio-item and switch out the content and you have a nice responsive bio layout. As its in foundation here is ..
open sans @import embed font quick
just a quick and nasty css import for the Open Sans google font.
using strlen to check the length of a string and do something about it
in the following code i use the php function strlen to check the length of a string and then add an if statement to check if the string is longer or shorter than the required length.
using wp_nav_menu to show a custom menu in wordpress
found this quick code snippit here, its not working just for reference of what the array items do. Here is how you would display the menu called "Projects" PHP $..
get and show the featured image on a wordpress page template
this will extract the featured image on wordpress page if you are using custom page templates.
document placeholder for a4 in portrait
a nice document placeholder image with dropshadow and transparency
landscape image document placeholder
A nice landscape image of a blank presentation format, in landscape mode with drop shadow.
easy section wrap in foundation - 3 boxes responsive
this is a 3 box section responsive wrap in foundation, you can change this to large-auto if you want to have multiple boxes
link to a custom style sheet in your theme directory wordpress
this is how you can include a manual link in your wordpress header file with a link to a stylesheet called theme.css then if you change theme names or something it will still link correctly, rather t..
wordpress show page content on template file
shows the page content on a wordpress template file
show post content on template wordpress
show the post content on a wordpress template
wordpress add a template file to your theme
this is the basic layout of adding a wordpress template php file to your wordpress theme. good for custom theme pages This is a really basic template with just the header, but once added wordpress w..
hidden scroll anchor for custom scroll position
just incase you need to link to a scroll anchor that is not in the place where you need it.
down chevron and styles
a down chevron and the class to style it, default this is 16x16px but you can zoom it in or out easily, just change the height and width of it target with the class bi-chevron-down
How to record your own page views with PHP, and make them into weekly monthly and yearly charts
Building a better Simple Page View Counter Currently this site has a very basic view counter on it. Here is how it currently works. Load the page, function checks if the page has a existing r..
load from fields array php class function
this class function loads from multiple fields from an array, much easier than passing in a bunch of variables into a function nice and clean, the only issue is you need to remember what fields to add..
ken burns slow image zoom
No i had never heard of Ken Burns either, but hey i like the zoom effects. Slow Zooom...
using a radial gradient for background overlay
usually i just use linear gradients for my background elements but i noticed this one the other day, a radial gradient. you can actually specify multiple colours and also opacity levels to overlay a ..
change selected color on input elements css
this can be useful if you are using darker form elements and they happen to have white on white text, so you can target the :focus on the input. here is the text input before the colour change, the c..
easy section wrap in foundation
i am always writing these wrap sections so i thought i would just add a basic one here, easy to copy and paste into a new section
test image url that always changes unsplash placeholder
good if you are doing a test site and need some changing images for test placeholders, and they are nice looking images as well. you can just use this image tag link and specify the size required.&nb..
video not auto playing issue in chrome and brave
i had this error the other day when i was adding an auto play video to a page. the error was: Javascript Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: play() failed because the user didn't interact with the ..
