22 Aug, 2003
Posted by: Jennifer In: Bookmarks
Saw this on the Javascript Tip of the Day feed… and I just KNOW someday I'll probably need it:
Related Menus – basically selecting an option in one drop down, determines the contents of the second drop down.
Lloyd has a Javascript Color Select Widget (IE 6, and Moz 1.2) here.
Another post on redemption in a blog points to this really cool php class that shows you a range of colors based on the one you put in. The example they have is very cool. (There's also a few other links on redemtion to other color thingys™)
Web-Graphics (finally back!) has a web-based color pickers review.
Donna posted a few neat little tidbitds – but the one I was most interested in was the referrer script that also tracks hits on an entry… Like "read 100 times" etc. Here's the script from redemption in a blog.
My reads list is kept on blogrolling, and a good number of those reads ping weblogs.com, like I do. I get a nice little "newly posted!" pointer when that ping occurs.
Well, did. Problem was, my site has, for the last several months, been getting an error when it tried pinging weblogs.com. I don't know how many others have been having this problem, but I'm guessing a fair number, since weblogs.com is just getting overloaded, apparently.
Then I discovered that you can ping blogrolling directly, so no matter if weblogs.com gets your ping or not, everyone who has you on their blogrolling list can still see that you've updated.
Here's the link to blogrolling.com's faq on it: http://www.blogrolling.com/docs_ping.phtml#f1;
Or for lazy people like me, here's my shortened version how to do this in MT:
In your blog's configuration, go to Preferences and down to the Publicity / Remote Interfaces / TrackBack section. Under "Notify the following sites when I update my blog:"'s "Other" section, paste the following URL:
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
That's it. Now I'm right back up displaying the fact I post way too often.
Just because I never want to have to search for things like this again. (And I'm just going to add to this post as time goes by)
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Just ran into an interesting problem and wanted to post this here in case anyone else ever hits the same snag – hopefully I'll save you a headache.
I was recently helping someone out with cookies on their site. By all appearances – the cookie WAS being set (I made a "test" page that did nothing but call the cookie – and it worked fine), but when I tried to call it from their site, something wasn't working…
It turned out that they had a php include which looked like this:
And while this basically worked – the page was included, and no specific errors were generated – it did cause a number of problems. One of the problems being that cookies weren't being called or recognized. But many other PHP things were working fine on the page.
Changing the includes to use the full server path fixed the problem. (By "full server path" I mean it kind of looked like: "/home/youraccount/public_html/myblog/includefile.php")
I'll post how I did this, but I added a new feature to the hotlist. Some people have complained that when they clear their cookies out, they lose all their hotlist links – or if they come here from two different machines, they end up with two different hotlists (because the script is cookie based – and the cookie that's on one machine will not be the same as on another)
Well, thanks to a little nudge from Promoguy, I created a page which let you save your hotlist and use the same list on another machine. Changes you make to the list on one machine, will be seen on another once you've set the same cookie id (using the script on the page).
So without further ado – here's the "save my cookie!" page.
Nice find!! Javascript Search – searches many sites for javascript code. [link via GeekGrrl]
ahem… that is of course if you can't find it here first. 😉
New script for you! This one will allow you to put a form on your site that takes short "comments" from your readers not neccessarily related to any specific post. You can also display the last 10(or any number) "hi"s left behind. The idea behind this script was based on my own actions – Many times I visit a site, but don't have anything specific to add to any of the posts but I still want to let the author know I've stopped by. Or maybe I just want to say "Cool site! :)" Here's hoping those people install this script so I can actually do that now. 😉
There's also an admin screen provided so you can go in and easily delete any "hi"s you don't want showing up on your site.
Requirements: You need php running on your site, and have access to a mySQL database. (The script only uses/creates one table – so you don't need to put it in a seperate database onto itself, although you could if you had database access to spare).
Instructions are provided in the .zip.
Version: .01
(side note: if you install this script, may I recommend that you create an additional page that just has the "hi" form on it, and include a link to that page from your RSS feed (if you have one) so that users can just click on that link when reading you from a RSS news reader. I've done this on my personal journal. After indicating how many trackbacks or comments there are on the site, I just added a link to the form.)
This site that I found will encrypt your Email address and convert the result to a self evaluating JavaScript, hiding it from Email-harvesting robots which crawl the web looking for exposed addresses.
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