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A Simple Yet Powerful PHP Template Engine

Cuong — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:24:08 +0000

This is not yet another regular expression replacement template engine. The template engine uses PHP itself to render the template. The template itself is very intuitive to people who are already familiar with PHP. There is no extra learning for additional syntax - the template code itself is just plain PHP code. Though I haven't [...]

ctRotator - A Flexible Item/Image Rotator Script for jQuery

Cuong — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:06:16 +0000

I was taking part in developing an interesting web application - the Thank You Project. During which I made an item rotator script that swaps a list of messages in and out from the message board. I find the rotator script is very useful, so I decide to share it. To get an [...]

Ajax Response Helper for PHP

Cuong — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:37:28 +0000

In Ajax programming development, passing data back and forth between client and server is a common task. There are two major data formats that one can use for this purpose, namely XML and JSON. My personal preference is JSON because I find it's less verbose and easier to parse. Although latest PHP provides a very handy [...]

Fading Effect with YUI’s Animation Utility

Cuong — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:03:05 +0000

In YUI's Animation Utility example page there are demonstrations on how to create color and motion animations. However I couldn't find an example for how to create fading effect. After spending some time on trying different approaches, I came up with this code snip: function doFade(){ YAHOO.util.Dom.setStyle(document.body, 'opacity', '0'); var ani = new YAHOO.util.Anim(document.body , { opacity: {from: [...]

Creating a Digg This Button for Your WordPress Blog

Cuong — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:14:15 +0000

Creating a Digg This button is very easy. Here's a non-plugin approach: <script type="text/javascript"> digg_url = '<?php the_permalink() ?>'; digg_title = '<?php the_title() ?>'; </script> <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> Copy and paste above script to anywhere between your WordPress' theloop: digg_url = 'http://thecodecentral.com/2008/04/30/creating-a-digg-this-button-for-your-wordpress-blog'; digg_title = 'Creating a Digg This Button for Your WordPress Blog'; Instead post specific Digg button, you can create a site [...]

JavaScript Source Joiner/Combiner

Cuong — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:41:52 +0000

The complexity of JavaScript code has increased rapidly over the last two years. The emerging of various JavaScript libraries/frameworks along with Ajax technology enable us to build sophisticate applications which are comparable to desktop ones. A mid-size to large-size Ajax/JavaScript applications normally consist of thousands lines of code. For readability and navigability, it is practical [...]

The Mighty Component of YUI 2.5.0 - Uploader

Cuong — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:41:52 +0000

YAHOO! just released YUI 2.5.0. Details of new components in this release can be found at YUI blog. To me the most exciting component in this release is the Uploader, which I called the mighty component. Not being exaggerated, this component really performed some wonders to the upload world. 1. Multiple file [...]

A Useful JavaScript Image Loader

Cuong — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:06:46 +0000

I released a YUI implementation of image gallery script a month ago. While it was quite an enjoyable experience to explore the potential of YUI and JavaScript, I found I have created many userful code snips (for instance this Loading Panel) along the way. Today I am going to show you another useful JavaScript code snip: [...]

How to Create a WordPress Theme Viewer

Cuong — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:48:20 +0000

For WordPress veteran this might not be new, which is, let visitor preview multiple themes in one WordPress installation. It puzzled me quite a while before I figured out how to do it. The very reason for the need of this feature is that I want to allow regular users to view different themes on [...]

A YUI Loading Panel Widget

Cuong — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:05:45 +0000

Probably needless to say, but here it is. A web page which is processing a lengthy Ajax request and doesn't provide a loading indicator of any kind will mostly mislead the user to think that the page has stopped responding. So the solution? Use a loading indicator of course. Here's a very handy loading indicator [...]