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RGBA color

Mark — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:28:56 +0000

I just read the latest article on 24ways.org about rgba color. Recommended reading. Straight after reading it I had fun implementing rgba background colors on this site. It’s very easy, works great and it’s so much easier to update the colors in css rather than creating a new transparent png!

If you view this site in Internet Explorer you will see that IE is still using the transparent png’s that I was previously using for all browsers. If you view this site in a decent browser like Firefox, Opera, Safari or Chrome you can rest assured that all the transparent png’s are gone

Position fixed – fixed in ie6

Mark — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:15:06 +0000

See http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2009/07/29/css_position_fixed_for_ie6.html

Its easy and it works

Learning Kohana php framework

Mark — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:22:21 +0000

An upcoming project required a login functionality but my php skills only go as far as includes and sending forms to email. So I did some searching and came across kohana php framework. I had read some good reviews of kohana and found out that they have an authorisation (login) module…

I tried a few tutorials to learn about kohana but they were too technical for a php n00b like me… then I came across kohana 101. I highly recommend this tutorial if you are a beginner when it comes to php and kohana framework.

The kohana 101 tutorial will walk you through the very basics and will take you about 2 or 3 hours to complete. By the end of the tutorial you will know how to make a simple site in kohana with products, pagination and an email form.

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You will probably want to remove the index.php from the url’s, this page will tell you how. But it doesnt mention that you also have to edit application/config/config.php

line 23
$config['index_page'] = 'index.php'; to $config['index_page'] = '';

Good Luck

php include causing unwanted gap in web page

Mark — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:29:17 +0000

So, I was working on a new site and wanted to have the left menu as a standard php include:

But, when I loaded the page there was a big gap right above where the include was being rendered. It took me an hour to find out that I had accidentally saved the solutionsMenu.php with a ‘bite order mark’ which was adding a character at the very beginning of the file!

In your text editor you may have the option to set the encoding for the file. Make sure you are saving as UTF-8 not ‘UTF-8 with BOM’. Save the file without a BOM and the problem will disappear

This article talks about the same issue.

Images in a select box

Mark — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:40:59 +0000

Can you have images in a drop down select box?

Test 1

This one is a select box with images for options:

code: “”

doesnt work and also failed to validate: (document type does not allow element “img” here)

Test 2

This example uses background colors/images and a bottom border on the options

background images and borders only work in firefox.

Background colors work in IE / firefox / safari / Opera / Chrome

Test 3

This one is a div with images inside like

I didnt pursue this avenue but I imagine you can use onclick to populate a hidden form field with some value. Could be buggy.

Javascript solution

Some javascript solutions I found but havn’t tried:

Check out dhtmlxCombo

I hope this information was at least slightly informative… please post a comment if you have any suggestions that might help others