Archive for October, 2009

Use PHP and the GD Library to make CSS Sprites October 8th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I came across some neat free Icons a couple of day’s ago. I found 178 free icons by WooThemes.
They suited my needs for some navigation icons I was after, so after a quick download, I have them all. Great.
Now, when I code, I’m all about speed of page loads with our reducing quality of [...]

Basic REGEX for cleaning and prepping data October 8th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

Over the last year or so, I have used a PHP Framework Code Igniter, Amongst many of its good features is its built in Form Validation Library.
Every now and then I either write a a small site out of Code Ignite, or help others to write or develop sections of their site, I constantly get [...]

Using Mootools Request.HTML response Javascript using $exec October 7th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

Javascript frameworks are great, no matter which one you use their all built to do more, quickly.
I use Mootools for most of my JS needs, and something is I often use is the AJAX request functionality.
Today I needed to send not only HTML back, but Javascript.
Here are the steps I needed to follow to not [...]