web-development

Retrieving an element by array index in jQuery vs the each() function.

I was writing a "pluginable" function when I noticed the following behavior (tested in FF 3.5.9 with Firebug 1.5.3). $.fn.computerMove = function () { var board = $(this); var emptySquares = board.find('div.clickable'); var randPosition = Math.floor(Math.random() * emptySquares.length); emptySquares.each(function (inde...

Basic Contact Form in PHP

I'm working on a contact form for my church website. The church has an email already registered (it's POP3) and the hosting company says their mail server is mymail.brinkster.com . With all that information, how can you send the form using mail()? The server won't show PHP errors. The current code looks like this: $headers = 'MIME...

WYSIWYG browser editor that generates *good* HTML?

I'm searching for a "suck less" WYSIWYG in-browser X?HTML editor that generates good HTML code. (no <font>, <foo style="...">, <p></p><span></span><p><span>&nbsp;</span><span><span>blah</span></<span></p> and so on -- <b> and <i> etc is ok). Should be easy-to-use as it is going to be used by people that do not know what HTML is. Any s...

How do I use jQuery to omit the "Select All" check box from the list of elements sent to the server?

When the "Select All" check box is used, it also sends that check box and it's value to the server. How do I remove or omit it from the node list before sending it to the server using jQuery? Thank You. ...

A good way to redirect with a POST request?

Hi folks, I need to redirect a user to an external site though a POST request. The only option I figured out is to do it submit a form through JavaScript. Any ideas? ...

How to override browser default download behavior for files?

Lots of times we have to download files from the net. In IE we get to see the ugly download progress bar. In firefox we get to see a pop-up window opening etc. However, I have never seen this being over ridden in any manner. Until recently on the site > *thesixtyone DOT com* If we get to download a song free and click on the ok link...

How to implement a session mechanism or How to generate a unique indentify for each user in the same corporation?

Most session are based on cookies,like php/jsp But as for mobile devices,there are quite a few that doesn't support cookies. How to generate a unique indentify for each user in the same corporation that uses the same IP address? ...

Seems like IE animates/processes my loading.gif even though I have set display:none?

I believe this is happening because whenever I perform an ajax request (upon which the loading.gif is set to display:block) the animation does not start at the same position. The starting point feels random which led me to think the animation still goes on behind the scenes in IE. In Firefox the animation starts from "scratch" all the ti...

Providing dynamic data to webpage

Hi, I have a web page that displays dynamic data which changes every 2 seconds. Data is selected from various data sources including Oracle. Currently, the page reloads every 10 seconds and runs a PHP script which retrieves the data and displays the page. I have other pages that gives a different view on the same data. This means the sa...

Javascript RegEx Question

Hello, Suppose I have this: $('ul.child').slideUp('slow'); What would be the regex to find 'ul.child' and 'slow' (including quotes) in the above expression. ...

Dojo not working for me.

Hello, I can't get my dojo working. I've tried everything. Here is the code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.4/dojo/dojo.xd.js"&gt; dojo.addOnLoad(functio...

Share spring beans in teracotta

Wondering why we need to share spring beans in case if there are no static data inside? ...

MySQL full text search, why am I getting Incorrect arguments to MATCH

SELECT * FROM company c INNER JOIN city ci ON ci.city_id = c.city_id INNER JOIN state s ON s.state_id = c.state_id WHERE MATCH ( c.name, ci.name, c.zipcode, s.name ) AGAINST ( 'los angeles' ) ...

Change Image with transition effects

Hello, I have the following script that changes my image on a timer: var da = setInterval( function() { var current_image = document.getElementById('node_picture').src; var image_index = current_image.substring(48,49); image_index++; if (image_index > 4) { image_index = 1; } document.getElementById('n...

Options for non-native form inputs for the web?

I'm wondering if there are any good non-native form inputs for web development? I am currently using the built in <input> controls. They work just fine, but for my application they are too big (especially on OS X). I am wondering if there are any libraries that I can drop in as replacements. I am especially interested in ones that: Ar...

Rendering HTML in Java

I am trying to create a help panel for an application I am working on. The help file as already been created using html technology and I would like it to be rendered in a pane and shown. All the code I have seen shows how to render a site e.g. "http://google.com". I want to render a file from my pc e.g. "file://c:\tutorial.html" This is...

Wrong image dimensions when it's dynamically loaded on a page the 1st time

I have the following piece of Javascript code on my web-page var central_image = document.createElement("img") central_image.setAttribute("src", imgs[curr_image_no - 1]); central_image.setAttribute("name", "jpeg"); document.getElementById("photo").appendChild(central_image); central_image.onload = getDimensions(); //function that alert...

PHP - Concatenating objects and casting to string - bad idea?

Is it bad practice to concatenate objects when used in this context: $this->template->head .= new View('custom_javascript') This is the way i normally add extra css/js stuff to specific pages. I use an MVC structure where my basic html template has a $head variable which I set in my main Website_controller. I have used this approach f...

Problem with multiple event handling in JQuery

Hi everyone, I have a strange jquery problem with multiple event handlers. What I'm trying to achieve is this: User selects some text on the page If the selection is not empty - show a context menu If user clicks somewhere else - the context menu should disappear I'm having troubles with the above i.e. sometimes the context menu a...

Sprite Fallback

I have a number of images on a page contained within a single sprite image, these images must be contained within the single sprite due to other requirements of the site. Whilst this is working fine in most browsers I have an issue on Opera Mini where it is not rendering the sprite at all and just displaying the whole image. Is there a...