CodeIgniter 2.0 is out with cool features!
I know its a bit late, CI 2.0 has been out since January 28th, 2011, but lets talk about it anyway and recapitulate some of the new features of this framework. The new stuff is great, and this time I…
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Read Word documents with PHP (up to Word 2003)
Reading Word documents with PHP on a Linux box can be a real pain. It requires DOM which is only available on the Windows platform. However, Unkwntech from Stack Overflow made quite a nice function to read Word documents and…
Detect mobile browser/user agent with PHP (iPad, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, WP7 and others)
With all this load of smartphones and tablets, it is mandatory for us as developers to optimize our content as much as possible so everybody can see it, no matter what device they are using. This is why I wrote…
$_GET parameters on CodeIgniter
Yeah, it is a much discussed topic in every CI forum. I needed to set up a payment gateway and it was mandatory to receive the gateway response via $_GET, so I decided to do an investigation on the matter…
CodeIgniter 2.0 new FTP class “download” method
I needed to download some files from a remote FTP server and the store them in my website. The usual way would be to download all the files to my computer and then upload them to my website. In CodeIgniter…
Get YouTube video thumbnails (the easy way)
YouTube has an API to do this, however, there is an easier way to pull the thumbnails of a specific video if you know its ID. You can use this trick in any of your applications and it is not…
A little dot that made me pull my hair off
I was coding a long signup form, a very nice one, with the jQuery Validation Plugin, but it wasn’t working. I started to strip the code, piece by piece so I can identify what was causing the plugin to ignore…
Trim long texts by words in PHP
We don’t like reading chopped sentences like “Star Wars Old Republic is be….”. It looks fugly. Usually, when trimming text you will go with substr(), but there is a much better way to do it, and believe me, you trimmed…
HTML Table Class on CodeIgniter 2.0
CodeIgniter 2.0 is coming out soon, so lets start studying the changes done to the HTML Table Class in the dev-release. One of the most requested features was the ability to set tag attributes to individual cells. On CI 2.0…
Fixing UTF-8 encoding problems on MySQL queries with PHP
It happened to me a lot of times, I had my connection set to UTF-8, my database was UTF-8, even my tables and every single field, however, for some reason, the information I updated in phpMyAdmin wasn’t being displayed correctly…
Twitter feed on your website with cURL and PHP
Pulling code from here and there, I gathered enough information to create a small function that allow you to pull your Twitter feed and display it in your website. What you do is basically call the function and pass a…
Alternate row colors with PHP
I know there are several ways to accomplish this, however, of all the ones I’ve tried, this is the shortest so far: So, if you make two classes, row1 and row2, each with a different background color, the result will…
Element indexes and jQuery
Once the DOM is structured by the browser, each element in our HTML page has an index relative to its parent. Retrieving an element’s index with jQuery is an easy task, and it is so useful that it can save…
Change selected option by value on select list with jQuery
You have a select element, and you need to “select” one of its options based on one of its values. What you do is use the “selected-selector” of jQuery to do it in a single line. Lets say I have…
Fix / workaround for the z-index problem on IE7
IE7 behaves strangely when we talk about z-index. It doesn’t always respect the z-index values of our elements. However, if you come around this weird stuff, just add a higher z-index to the parent of the element you want to…