Feb/100
How to define a jQuery autocompleter callback function
I have spent a lot of time on creating a working callback function for the jQuery autocomplete plugin (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete).
Here is a working example:
Sep/090
The strange behaviour of php function basename()
On my local Windows machine with PHP5 the value of basename(’названиe.php’) is “названиe”, where “названиe” is any cyrillic string.
However, on my remote Unix server the same function with the same argument returns null.
Not only could I find no explanation – there isn’t even any mention of it anywhere on the Internet.
Sep/090
XML selectNodes() ordered
Here is a helper function to select nodes from an XML document order by certain child node value of these nodes.
If selectNodes() is a pendant of MySQL SELECT command, this helper function would be a pendant of SELECT… ORDER BY…
As far I know there is no standart XML or XPath function to perform it.
Written in [...]
Sep/094
justVisual 2
justVisual 2 is a databaseless XML-based content management system for small or medium-sized web sites. justVisual enables support for multiple languages.
Its default implementation provides no user-generated content like comments or topics.
However, the system can be expanded on through plugins to become dynamic. An example of such an extension is the search plugin included in the [...]
Sep/090
justVisual 2: features and details
« justVisual2: description
1. Structure of pages
A justVisual page consists of paragraphs. Each paragraph can have a subtitle, a text and an image on the left or on the right. This flexible model meets almost any variant of page content.
2. URL rewrite mode
If your host does not provide URL rewriting (that is, if you [...]
Jul/090
SQL Select query with a predefined last entry
The task was to create a SELECT query on a table with titles grouped alphabetically by name, but a certain name must (if found) always stay at the end.
This is like the selecting of categories on ebay.com where the categories are arranged by name but the category “Other” must have the last place.
The solution [...]
Jul/090
1. Ebay API: Before you begin
Successes and disappointments with ebay development
Creating an application that operates directly with ebay data may seem like a promising idea, but there are some problems you may encounter after having invested a lot of time in it.
Here are the two problems I have encountered.
The continuous change of API without supporting of previous versions
If [...]
Jul/090
3. Working with attributes
The application of attributes seems to be the most complicated part of writing ebay applications.
Unfortunately it is not possible to simply avoid it, because they are required even by such basic options as setting item condition to new and specifying the return policy.
The target of attributes is (as I it understand it) is to [...]
Jul/090
HTMLConvert
The converter transforms the text you type into the standard HTML code that every browser can recognize without altering the character encoding.
Where this HTML Code can be used?
If you would like to show HTML, PHP, XML… source texts on your page
If you would like to show some different character sets on your page
and so [...]