http://www.theredplanet.org Some information might be useful Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:32:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TinyMCE Character Limit Example Below is some code illustrating how to detect a character count on a TinyMCE wysiwyg control.  Enforcing the character limit can be done in a number of ways, the most basic being an alert.  The regular expression that removes the HTML tags is optional depending on whether they are ... http://www.theredplanet.org/javascript/tinymce-character-limit-example WYMeditor In an effort to find a decent  web-based editor that produces valid XHTML, I stumbled across WYMeditor.  From the outset, it seems quite good offering an interface that is not completely awful to look at whilst at the same time preventing the user from messing up the HTML. Extending WYMeditor Compared to many web-based ... http://www.theredplanet.org/wymeditor/wymeditor-symbol-selector I had a suggestion from a friend to update my website to include target = _blank for outgoing links.  It kind of makes sense from a marketing point of view since the user is being kept on my site.   Personally, I know how to hold down the 'shift' key when ... http://www.theredplanet.org/uncategorized/target-_blank-bad-etiquette After months of putting up with an annoying 2 second delay every time I accessed my Linux machine via FTP, I finally looked into the issue and found an incredibly simple solution. Include the following line in proftpd.conf: DelayEngine                     off Apparently it has an inbuilt connection delay by default - for security reasons.  ... http://www.theredplanet.org/linux/proftd-delay-problem The JavaScript class ClippedImage.class.js modifies a standard <IMG> tag by clipping it to some specified dimensions and displaying the full image on the mouseover event. The solution works well for single images and should degrade gracefully in unsupprted browsers. It has been tested in Firefox 2, IE6 and Opera 9. View this ... http://www.theredplanet.org/javascript/javascript-expanding-clipped-image There seems to be very little in the way of examples that show how to use the Zend framework to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database, so here is what worked for me: First up, the Zend Framework Programmer's Reference Guide is the place to start, it talks about the Zend_Db_Adapter ... http://www.theredplanet.org/zend-framework/connecting-to-sql-server-using-the-zend-framework The JavaScript library TextEffect.class.js can be used to perform various effects on any piece of text within a document.   The 4 effects that have be implemented so far are: disperse, assemble, fade-in and fade-out.  If I can think of more I will add them. See the example page for a detailed demonstration, ... http://www.theredplanet.org/javascript/javascript-text-effects This is another javascript library.  It creates a cross fading slideshow of images from a list of IMG tags and some basic JavaScript.  The code is based on some I found elsewhere some time back.  I will give credit if I can find where! The script has been tested in Firefox2, IE6 ... http://www.theredplanet.org/javascript/simple-javascript-crossfade-slideshow The ContextMenu script allows you to define a contextmenu to show when any html element is 'right-clicked'.   The standard browser contextmenu is disabled, but only for the elements that trigger a custom ContextMenu.  The menu shown can differ for each element. Please view the example.  -- or -- Right-click on the element below! ul.contextMenu{border: ... http://www.theredplanet.org/javascript/javascript-contextmenu-script This script is based on one I found at news.bbc.co.uk.  A client pointed it out to me and wanted it on his website.  Improvements made to original: Simpler to implement  Links in the ticker will be found by search engines. Degrades gracefully Does not rely on prototype or any other monolithic JS library. Supports as many ... http://www.theredplanet.org/javascript/accessible-javascript-news-ticker