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display a subnav for the current wordpress page
good if you are doing custom page work and need to show the current sub nav somewhere other than the main menu.
list page links function list_page_links
list top number of page links from selected table test run time on db of 4k items. select * from pages where publish = 'publish' order by insdate desc limit 10 10 rows (0.005 s)
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..
windows robocopy /? help and usage
Reference for the windows robocopy command ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows ..
check if an item id exists in javascript
checks if 2 ids exist in one function and console logs the status here is the result in console log
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..
imgur upload from php
function that takes an image and uploads it to imgur using a client api id, and then returns all the data. i did this one ages ago and did not make it into a function, but this version should work as..
simple file cache and check in php
just a quick cache bit of code, may need tweaking to actually work... i just added it here as i thought it was re-usable. Also requires simple_html_dom library.
Random User Profile Loading Script in vue
uses the random user ui here to generate profile boxes using vue js original script here: https://codepen.io/l-i-lc/pen/WNxNwvd?editors=1010
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.
MySQL to Sqlite converter
# Converts a mysqldump file into a Sqlite 3 compatible file. It also extracts the MySQL `KEY xxxxx` from the# CREATE block and create them in separate commands _after_ all the INSERTs. # Awk is choos..
Robocopy Options /? help
My usual backup command is now robocopy source destination *.* /M robocopy d:\ f:\ *.* /M Update: actually scrap that, its /E not /M, i used to use the /MIR option, but as deleting files in the des..
php validate email function
php function that can be used to validate an email address string
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 ..
jquery load wait function
load something in jquery, wait for it to load then do something else
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...
html and css hoizontal simple timeline section in foundation
a horizontal simple timeline section example done in foundation grid with some custom styles. This also uses the Lato Font quick install! So Quick!.. :P Also works on responsive and mobile dev..
php check if a class exists
check if a class exists in php. this can be used rather than assuming the class exists and then causing an error You can run the class_exists function on the class before loading it with the followi..
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..
bootstrap form basic
a nice simple bootstrap form layout example template
simple javascript no library accordion
a simple button and div based accordion with a toggled indicator
get php to validate its self with php check syntax
Did you know that php has a syntax checking function built into it? Well it does and this is how you can use it to check your php files for errors, rather than just running them and hoping for the be..
youtube search api request function
This function requests a search from the youtube search api, and searches the text in the snippet for the seearch string. You can get your own API key for this from the google developers console. They..
Fix for PHP Warning Trying to get property '*name*' of non-object
i was getting this error when checking parts of an object that were sometimes set and sometimes they did not exist depending on the values. Warning / Error : Warning Trying to get property '*na..
load json data url or api with javascript
this loads a target json url or api using raw javascript so no jquery required with this one then logs the data returned to the console.
add a divider to your dropdown nav toggles
good for seperating menu sections in the same dropdown item add this to your toggle <li><hr class="dropdown-divider"></li>
validate email address from string with jquery working function
Here is a working example of this post validate email address from string. This has very basic checking of an email address by checking that the string has an @ and a . in it. Note: this is still no..
log the console log output to a div
I do a lot of console logging so i thought it would be nice to be able to see this on my test pages. Apparently you can grab this quite easily with the following code. I had to modify this a b..
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..
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..
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.
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..
twitter json feed testing
just testing using the Twitter Post Fetcher script, seems to be working well.
check if a file exists with php
checks if a file exists in php returns true of false
mouse enter mouse leave jquery hover hoverout
showing how you can do things on mouse over and then something else when the mouse leaves an element using jquery
vertically align text within a fixed height div using flex
this can be used to make text align nicely while still keeping the same layout. the example below shows how you can set the height of the containing element and still have the text aligned center to ..
old browser check with javascript
modified from this script i console logged all the items available so you can do what you need with them these are the avilable variables Javascript console.log(browser.agent);console.log(browser...
verify the google recapture server php
i was still getting quite a bit of spam even after using google recapture v2 and i think this is just as i was using the javascript only version, which disables the submit button if the capture is not..
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..
ajax callback to delete with sweet alert confirmation to make it cool! 😎
I recently wanted to to an ajax call back on a list of items just to make it easier to move around the place, rather than it reloading the page every time. So i thought why not also use sweet alert on..
prevent default click event on link
This will prevent the default event on a link url, so for example if you have a <a href="">link</a> link this code will prevent it from loading the href link when clicked and you can do so..
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..
loop through a complex object json javascript
just a note to say that a complex object is an object with more than one nested object in it for example just kinda playing around with this one to get the handle on objects and how to access them C..
json load from jquery and loop through the results
this is the same as this post but i have added the object to an external test file. so rather than already having the object data on the page we have to load it somehow Note: you can test that the o..
set active class based on url value
this will check the full url and then loop through all the a elements in #test-div when it finds a matching url it will add the class active to that button this is good for persisting active links o..
check server https or http value in php using $_SERVER
this will check the server method and if its https assign the value to $server_http_val so this will either be "https://" or "http://" good for generating full url's for your domain.
check box highlight text area css
i just wanted to be able to highlight a text field if a certain check box was checked on a form in this demo below, if you click on the check1 checkbox it will give you an alert saying if the box is ..
check if a checkbox is checked with javascript
checks if the box is checked and returns true or false reusable function that can check if a checkbox is checked or not just pass it the id of the checkbox Javascript Usage check_my_box('check1');
php basic page router
this php page router while pretty basic does the job for this site. it takes all the query string and splits it with the / into $p variables you will also need the following nginx or similar page rew..
add click event to multiple link items
this allows you to get every a element in a-div class and stop the link from loading, so you can do other things with it like run a function or something else Functions used: Javascript Wait for th..
darkmode toggle switch with local storage to remember the last selection
Here is a darkmode toggle switch, that swaps out the body class so you can target dark-mode or light-mode on all your elements! It saves to local storage the last selection so if you come back to the..
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..
adding pagination to custom wp_query
you can add this to your custom wp_query making sure your query also has the paging passed through to it
add paging to wp list query
this is a raw template with list query for specific category names and also includes paging, if the post number is greater than 8 posts in the included categories.
Monitoring Visible Objects on Screen
i found this one when researching how to detect visible objects on screen, and then doing something with them. This one does not use any external scripts to change the box colour as it becomes visible..
list items from blog and filter by category name
this is a bit raw, but shows the $args = array('category_name' => 'Categy Name 1','Categy Name 2','Categy Name 3' => 8, 'paged' => $paged ); for querying the category_name to do multiple pro..
Quick tool to convert time into decimal
I needed a quick tool that can convert say 20 minutes into decimal, as im doing this a lot these days. Here is what i come up with, well you can google it as well and that works, but this form is a bi..
country select javascript check which option is selected and show a hidden element
this shows a country dropdown and then if a selected country name is matched it will show the second part of the form for this test australia is the confirmed country
Bootstrap 4 Center menu items in a navbar
Here we have an example bootstrap navbar you can find the original navbar here. I just want to center the menu item links so they dont appear over to the left on larger screens. Add the follow..
add a class or remove it based on window scroll location
if you inspect the header div you will see a class added to it when scrolled down, i have added additional margins to it so you can still see it even when scrolled. then you add a fixed property to m..
getting the site title vs the page name
this statement will check if the current page is the home page and show the get_bloginfo('name') if its another page in the site it will get that pages title using wp_title('')
wordpress show the parent page title with fallback to title
in wordpress either show the parent page title, or if it does not have a parent then show the page title. tags: get parent page title wordpress
find and replace hrefs in existing page links using jquery
sometimes i have to do these things when you cant change the source files for some reason, usually due to old code. Its kind of a patch, but it works. The reason i had to add a delay in running the fu..
check if a timestamp is older than one hour
this will check if the timestamp string is less or more than one hour old.
Add a post date to your custom wordpress post listing
this is an example using: get_the_date: this one gets the post date the_excerpt: which gets the .. excerpt or summary text from the post and get_the_post_thumbnail_url which gets the image from th..
Nginx Server Block with Rewrite
Nginx Server Block with Rewrite Here is a basic nginx server block with rewrite to the index.php file. So it takes all the parameters and passes them into the index, into the variable $p or $_GE..
js - Use the Conditional (Ternary) Operator
this statement can be used instead of if this else that statements. to me it makes it look a bit more complex when reading it. this is the basic syntax. condition ? statement-if-true : statement-if-fa..
form checkbox replacement with large tick using label
this is good if you want to change a form checkbox with the default and show a fancy tick or something else, this will still check the checkbox so will work normally as the form element
card counting example from fcc
here is a solved version of the card counting function from free code camp you can test it using console log.
using flexbox to align elements in a row
flexbox is so good at aligning elements, yes i used to use float left and then percentages and overflow auto or hidden the surrounding div, but now with flex you can just do something like this.
Dropdown Box with Searchable Text
Here we have a dropdown select box, that you can type into to search the available options. No Javascript Required for this the browser does all the work. Press into the text box, and you will see a..
sqlite basic sql and loop results
basic loop through sql results using sqlite and php $sql = "select $field_name from $db_table_name"; $out = ""; $result = $db->query($sql); if($result) { while($row = $result->fetchA..
wordpress check home and not home for banners and things
this quick function will check if the page is home or not good if you want something on the other pages and something just on the home page in the header or that kind of thing. i have tested this i..
using custom request headers array with curl
this function passes in an array with custom request headers to curl, good if you need to pass in some headers to request an api url and give it an auth key or something like that. Also added to the a..
find the 1st occurence of a string in another string
do a case-sensitive search for a string within another string strpos mixed strpos ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, int $offset = 0 ] ) usage find the 1st location of a string position within a..
pretty printing json with php
nice if you are working with json string data and just want to be able to read through the structure without copy pasting it somewhere else. $json_string = json_encode($data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
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');..
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..
digital clock with jquery
Just a simple digital jquery clock that updates every second. Also added the dropshadow animation, not sure why... ;) .digital-clock { font-size:80px; } .transition { transition..
stacktable jQuery plugin for stacking tables on small screens
stacktable.js The purpose of stacktable.js is to give you an easy way of converting wide tables to a format that will work better on small screens. It creates a copy of the table that is converted in..
