iPhone issue with displaying a large background image
Large backgrounds in the BODY or DIV element will not display on an iPhone (Safari) because of the dimensions of the image which cannot exceed 5.2 mega-pixels.
02
Mar/12
02 March 2012
14
Feb/12
14 February 2012
PHP function: calculate x seconds, minutes or hours ago
A useful Twitter style PHP time interval function to calculate the difference in seconds, minutes, hours or days between two different dates and times. The function can be used to display seconds, minutes or hours only, or display the most relevant time measurement unit automatically.
09
Feb/12
09 February 2012
JavaScript Function to Check\Uncheck all Checkboxes
A cross browser compatible JavaScript function to select or de-select all checkboxes in a form. The check all function finds all checkboxes in a designated form, regardless of the checkbox name .
02
Feb/12
02 February 2012
PHP get first paragraph from a string function
A useful PHP function that gets the first paragraph from a regular HTML string, with option to remove the paragraph tags.
28
Jan/12
28 January 2012
Spry XML Dataset: Selecting a Single Row
Some useful Spry code that allows a single, unique row or record to be selected from an XML dataset. The process involves first passing a unique row ID to a detail page and then filtering a single row from the XML using the unique ID.
25
Jan/12
25 January 2012
Spry Dataset: Limit Rows, Characters & External Feeds
A few simple Spry snippets to limit the number of rows displayed from a Spry XML Dataset, limit the characters displayed in a Spry field and how to get around the security issues preventing xml external feeds to be used.
Limit rows & characters & using external feeds with a Spry dataset »
22
Jan/12
22 January 2012
Custom WordPress Meta Titles – Homepage, Pages, Posts
Getting into the nuts and bolts of Wordpress PHP in order to customise Meta Titles for the various page types including category meta title, homepage meta title, and post meta title.
Wordpress meta titles on Home, pages, posts and categories »
14
Jan/12
14 January 2012
Variation in Google Rankings on Different Machines
Looking at why variation in search engine results can be consistently different from one machine to another. Usually down to personalisation, locational search or results from different Google data centres.
07
Jan/12
07 January 2012
Reset PHP Recordset for Multiple Repeat Regions
How to re-use a PHP recordset by resetting the recordset pointer. This allows multiple repeat regions from the same recordset to be used.
03
Jan/12
03 January 2012
Chrome to overtake Internet Explorer market share in June 2012
According to worldwide statistics, Chrome is gaining month on month market share over Internet Explorer. I make a prediction that Chrome will overtake Internet Explorer by June 2012.
Web Dev Door is a blog for web devs with topics, tutorials and guides on all things web development.
