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react
React - Use State to Toggle an Element

Mastering React State: Toggling Elements with Confidence React's state management system is a powerful tool for building dynamic and interactive user interfaces. One common use case involves to..

12:33 am, June 12, 2024
mysql
clean excess binary logs from mysql - free up space

Update: 30 July 2023 I actually prefer this command, i just have to figure out why im getting so many binlog files! MYSQL PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE '2023-07-30 00:00:00';PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE NOW..

1:16 am, July 4, 2023
php functions
show views list function

list items by the view count

10:52 pm, April 12, 2023
sections
javascript
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.

12:42 am, August 31, 2022
Site Bugs
Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

Fix for Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/pages/seo-meta-tag-search.page.php on line 204 As this is just a warning, i may not have noticed it originall..

7:28 am, May 22, 2022
Site Bugs
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 ..

6:39 am, May 20, 2022
core
Core Function : list_search_by_class_return_links - List Searches by Class Type and Return Links

Function that list's the latest and top searches by the class name and return a list of links, with the search totals on them.  I wanted to extract the top searches and the latest searches by da..

2:35 am, March 10, 2022
css
highlight a button with an animation css

While i was downloading the latest AdoptJDK i noticed this button, and thought it was a nice effect.  I wondered how hard it would be to replicate this. Copy the link html Check each class..

12:48 am, March 4, 2022
sqlite
function to delete older sqlite records when the limit is reached

I had an issue where a sqlite database was hitting over 100,000 records and this was causing quite a lot of lag and crashing on my server, the number of records was not really meant to be this high, s..

4:20 am, January 18, 2022
php functions
list all array json function list_all_array_json

I wrote this a while ago, and i always forget the complex functions i write so ill add it here.  This loads all fields and then returns them as json. 

5:51 am, November 3, 2021
php
list_all_array an early stages of list all function that uses an array to pass in main variables

I think this is more neat than passing in individual variables into the list_all function, seems to work ok so far.  Still in early stages of this listing function, more needs to be built into i..

12:15 am, October 18, 2021
php
replace singular variable assignment with an array loop and variable variables

I found this useful when passing in an array to a function, rather than assigning all the variables in the function manually from the array just loop through each item in the array and asign them that..

11:58 pm, October 17, 2021
javascript
twitter json feed testing

just testing using the Twitter Post Fetcher script, seems to be working well.

9:33 am, September 10, 2021
site documentation
function to load one latest item with a start val load_latest_single_num

This is the same as load oldest item based on insdate then update the insdate to now - load_latest_single_update but it allows you to add a start number to the range, so allows you to access the 2nd, ..

4:06 am, September 2, 2021
site documentation
load the latest single item only

this function loads the lastest item from the selected class

1:24 am, June 11, 2021
site documentation
load oldest item based on insdate then update the insdate to now - load_latest_single_update

i keep finding these functions that i wrote ages ago and forgot about so ill list them here so maybe i can remember them. I think this one was to loop through items, so it grabs the oldest item and t..

1:19 am, June 11, 2021
site documentation
hero widget header - creates a nice looking hero item from a target uid and class

this creates a "nice" looking hero widget, just wanted to create something that looked decent and had an attached background image, surprizingly annoying to link items together. For some reason i kee..

12:10 am, June 11, 2021
site documentation
Latest from Code Widget

What generates the Latest from Code Widget? Code PHP $widget_latest_list = $class->list_all(        $start = 0,        $max = 10,      &n..

6:18 am, June 9, 2021
php
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..

4:19 am, June 3, 2021
php
passing in arrays to your functions rather than using variables

this is probably an old technique, but i discovered it the other day when i was playing around, and i thought wow i should do this to all my functions, i cant see the downside, apart from having to re..

1:11 am, May 11, 2021
javascript
using moment.js to make your time format nicer

moment.js is a very nice way to handle multiple date strings and output them in a nicer format.  grab the latest copy of momen from cdnjs lets say our date is in this format, i think this is un..

11:15 pm, March 16, 2021
javascript
How to set a cookie and expire it in 30 days

Here is some basic usage for the js cookie library. Include the following script. Or you can grab the latest version at the cdnjs website. HTML <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/lib..

9:51 am, February 2, 2021
site bugs
style page numbers [fixed]

need to style the page numbers. https://kruxor.com/list-table/search_links/  Before: After: Dark Mode Light Mode  

2:26 am, January 14, 2021
site bugs
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..

2:44 am, January 12, 2021
wordpress
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. 

11:37 pm, December 1, 2020
wordpress
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..

3:03 am, November 18, 2020
bootstrap
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..

11:54 pm, August 18, 2020
jquery
fix for Uncaught TypeError: e.indexOf is not a function

fix for depreciated window load Uncaught TypeError: e.indexOf is not a function at S.fn.init.S.fn.load (jquery-3.5.1.min.js:2) at default.aspx:993 I found this error when upgrading from a..

12:20 am, August 3, 2020
html
load a youtube video in a fancybox modal

With just a couple of lines of js and html you can load your video links in a modal lightbox. Get the latest version of the fancybox scripts (just the links) from here: https://cdnjs.com/libraries/fa..

10:46 pm, March 2, 2020
js
scrollbar replacement simplebar

a nice and simple scroll bar replacement code <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/simplebar@latest/dist/simplebar.css" /> <script src="https://unpkg.com/simplebar@latest/dist/..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
js
testing chartjs

Update: 30 June 2020 I checked this code, and it was broken all fixed now. The issue with the demo included on the main site is that it was trying to run the chart js before the chart library was load..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
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