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AJAX Contact Form with PHP Fallback

Ben — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:03:01 +0000

First off, the large portion of the code for this little script was written by other folks, so let me give a shout out to them. I used the FormProcessor.class.php file from Simon Willison's excellent "Easier form validation with PHP " script which I modified slightly (modified file available here: http://www.minc.info/ajaxcontact/FormProcessor.class.phps ). The javascript pre-validation [...]

User only/protected pages in WordPress

Ben — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:53:21 +0000

Here is some fairly simple code for restricting pages only to logged in users in WordPress. Just give me the code | First, you have to set up a template for the page. You create templates for pages by adding some code at the top of the page, like so: < ? php /* Template [...]

PHP Contact Form with Javascript and PHP Form Validation

Ben — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:03:34 +0000

I've recently melded a few things together to create a better contact form with two types of validation. Pre-validation occurs with javascript as the user enters data so users have an indication that they have input invalid data. The second validation occurs via PHP on submission of the form. You can check it out here: [...]

css menu update

Ben — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:52:34 +0000

I've worked out most of the kinks in this css menu below. You can see an example of it here. It now works in Internet Explorer. I've tested for IE 6, 7, and 5.5. Opera works fine except there's a weird flicker on the hover that I have to work out. Camino and Firefox work great. Netscape adds some horizontal scroll bars that I need to figure out how to get rid of. Safari, well, safari just crashes when it hits the page which I have yet to figure out why. Hopefully I will soon. There's another way of doing this as well. I took a drop-line menu from Stu Nichol's excellent CSS Play site and altered it to work as a flyup menu. Click here to see it in action. The original menu at CSS play can be found here . Unfortunately, for the project I was working on, the above code from CSS Play could not be used because the CMS I was working with did not allow for the insertion of the extra table elements necessary for IE to work properly. I had already hacked out my version before I discovered the one at CSS Play.

css menu

Ben — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:58:35 +0000

I've been working on a new type of css menu. Basically, it's a drop down menu, except the submenu shows up above the main area as a bar. To really get an idea of what I'm talking about, take a look at the demo page. It currently works in Firefox, Opera, Safari (still debugging this a bit). IE has a way to go before it's completely operational.

Demo

New WordPress admin design

Ben — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:53:13 +0000

Just some pics of a new WordPress admin design I've been working on. Not a complete step away from the norm, but I thought it would be fun to do soemething just a little bit different.

new stuff

Ben — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:03:41 +0000

i’m trying out a new software called marsedit. it so i can post to this blog without actually logging into the admin area. we’ll see how it goes. looks pretty sweet so far. like writing email, only writing to the blog. just took a screenshot of it…but having trouble uploading [...]