The jQuery Facebox plugin creates a Facebook like lightbox which can be used to load external pages, images or put in any content you want. It’s not perfect but it works pretty well. This post shows a basic example and the html for a page skeleton which uses Facebox. I’m posting this now because I’ll have some additional posts in the next few days using Facebox (and also some older ones here here and here).
PHP has several settings for logging errors; in this post I will look at the log_errors and error_log settings which control whether errors should be logged and where to.
I was casting about for ideas for this HTML/CSS post and came across the letter-spacing property for setting spacing between letters in CSS, a property I wasn’t previously aware of, and thought it would make a good topic. Adding spacing between letters can be an excellent way of making titles (e.g. <h1> <h2> <h3> etc …
It's possible to order data randomly with MySQL using ORDER BY RAND() or doing a count on the table and then using LIMIT to choose a random offset. However neither of these are suitable for dealing with large tables with many rows. In this post I present an alternative to these but it does require modifications to the table and additional business logic and is still not perfect.
This post shows a similar technique to the one used in my CSS Sprites – making one of the buttons active with the body id post from the other day. In this post I show how to modify a particular element on a page depending on the body’s id or class. In this example it’s to change the masthead that appears at the top of the page.
I use Yahoo’s YUI Compressor to minify Javascript and CSS files. Recently I got an error message when attempting to minify a Javascript file: this post looks at the error message and how to use it to work out where the error occurs.