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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 [...]

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: [...]

User only/protected pages in WordPress

Ben — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:33:44 +0000

Here is some fairly simple code for restricting pages only to logged in users in WordPress. Just give me the code. Please explain it to me...

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

Easy Vignette in Photoshop CS2

Ben — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:16:03 +0000

I've been trying to find a decent way of making a vignette in photoshop for a while. I shoot in jpeg mode on my Canon 10D because I don't have enough memory cards to shoot in RAW all the time. Well, one of the great things about RAW files is using Adobe's Camera RAW on them. It's rather frustrating to me that I can use Adobe Lightroom or enven Apple's Aperture on jpeg files and do all the things on the jpeg files that I can on RAW files with those programs, but not with Adobe Camera RAW! It only allows you to use it on RAW files. Well, one of the things I like best about Camera RAW was the vignette feature. Well, lo and behold, I found out tonight that you can get the same thing by using Photoshop's Lens Correctionn Filter (requires Photoshop CS2). So, to make a vignette, simply go to Filters ---> Distort ---> Lens Correction. Play with the vignette settings until you're happy. Here's a photo of the beach at False Cape State Park that I added a light vignette to.

False Cape sunrise & sunset

Ben — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:50:41 +0000

A few more photos of False Cape for your enjoyment.

More False Cape Pics

Ben — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:23:18 +0000

Here are a few more photos from our False Cape State Park trip. I'll probably post more at a later date, but time is low right now.

False Cape State Park

Ben — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:56:21 +0000

False Cape State Park. A photo off of one of the docks located there with some filters applied to make it a little more gloomy. My brother and I recently took a trip to False Cape State Park in Virginia (to the south of Virginia Beach). I highly recommend it. Here's a link to a satellite map of it: False Cape State Park and a regular Google Map False Cape State Park Map. I'll be putting up a few more photos here in the not too distant future after I've finished processing them all.

Katie Couric bodybuilder?

Ben — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:16:14 +0000

Now, the Katie Couric touched up photo for CBS was a little disturbing, but I think Google's taking it a bit far here: