scriptygoddess

UPDATE 3.29.04
Lynda has a updated version of this script. I'll leave the content of the post up – but go to her site for the most recent version of the script.

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I went looking to see if there was a way to list the most commented on entries within Moveable Type. I know this is a standard Greymatter feature, but I couldn't figure anything out for Moveable Type. Granted, I may not have looked hard enough.

Here is a simple PHP solution. I'm just going to copy and paste the code, it's quite easily customizable if you know what's going on. When I get back I might detail this post a little more.

If you know of a way to do this automatically within Moveable Type, please let me know.
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Since my journal is of a personal nature – I don't really want it indexed on Google. I had previously posted about a way to "temporarily" remove your site from their index – unfortunately, it DOES time out! I've done this a number of times, and… well… it's BAAACKK.

If you can't beat 'em – pretend you don't exist, and maybe they'll go away.

I've now added code to my blog so that if you get to it from a google search you get a "file not found" page. For those of you wishing to hide from Google – here's how I did it:
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My friend Dave (who REALLY needs a blog!!!!!) 😉 sent me some links about some PHP development being done for stand-alone apps:

PHP-GTK
AKBKHome

I make no secret of the fact that I'm doing some fairly heavy-duty work with PHP and mySQL these days. As a result, that's where most of my recent web-surfing time has gone.

While long, I found this tutorial (Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL) to be the one that I kept coming back to when I had questions.

DevShed's Beginning MySQL Tutorial and NewbieNetwork's MySQL and PHP might also be of use to you.

mySQL.com doesn't have the unbelievable wealth of information that php.net has, but their documentation at mysql.com/doc/ is definitely much better than the norm.

Maybe that'll give y'all something interesting to read over the weekend…

Lots of good javascript articles over on chunkysoup.net. Including an article about Object Oriented Javascript (ouch – head hurts – I know I should read and understand that .. maybe I'll take it nice and slow)

Also has some nice links on his resources page.

pretty neat huh? (well, I guess not the unemployed part.) To find the script to do that get it here. That site, Dynamic Drive, has some pretty cool other scripts too.

(p.s. Here's a question for the CSS goddesses – how do I add a margin to that layer? I know how to add a margin to a layer specified by a div tag – but this is some sort of weird "ilayer" – me no know css) 😉

update: stopped constant "count" as it seemed to have crashed someones browser. (so the count you see is static, but that is because I commented out a line that refreshes the count).

When I was creating the concept of my Buffy Skin for my journal, I knew that I had too many images to just use one on each sidebar. So I went on a search for a way to do random images.

But, my other quandry was that I wanted to do random images as backgrounds with words on top of them. So I took my first trip in the php manuals and figured out how to randomly pick a background and stick it into a div background.

Note, this isn't nearly as terrifically full-scale as Lynda's tutorial. If you are looking for something with random filenames and differing widths, hers is the way to go. But for the basics, I really like how this turned out….
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Remember a few days ago I was having major problems with this site? I think I *just* realized what may have caused the problem.
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There are a number of ways to do this and your options are only limited by your imagination . . . and, well, the MT tags. First, this will only work in MT 2.0+ so go upgrade right now if you haven't!
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Brenna of mngeo.com (and an all-around smart person on the MT boards!) posted really nice tutorial on how to make your site navigation know what page you are on; even when you are using a fixed header.

php site nav, using if/else and $REQUEST_URI