If you have visited the Google.co.uk homepage (Yes, that’s Google UK) recently – since about the 8th of September 2010 then you would have noticed a new search feature Google is pushing called Google Instant. Now what is so nice about Google Instant? It is an ajax type search application that now searches using keyword
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Quite often you may need the ability to check what type of data type a variable is. In most programming languages this is possible to do and is usually called typeof(). PHP too has a way to check this, it is called gettype() and it’s so simple to use. All you have to do is
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Now this is an annoying one. You go to any of google’s sites including any site that has google-analytics.com javascript included in it’s body and BOOM! ..either you get redirected to a bullshit search page you didn’t ask to go to or the browser shows a blank white screen while apparently analytics loads.. It turns
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It is really easy to create a Timer in Actionscript 3. Instantiate the Timer Class and pass a time in millions of 1000 to it to work in seconds. var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000); Setup an event listener to call a function. myTimer.addEventListener("timer", myTimerEventHandler); Start the Timer. myTimer.start(); Start the Timer. function myTimerEventHandler(event:TimerEvent):void {
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In the below example we will use Actionscript 2 to call a remote PHP file that will return data to it. It is a simple way of transferring data between the server and client. Actionscript 2 Code: callRemoteFile = function(ourVariable:String) { var result_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); result_lv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean)
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Split string into sentences by max line length. This uses a character array but doesn’t use word-wrapping. var personalMessage:String = "You got this far so we reckon that you could be curious enough to learn a little more, we’ll contact you shortly to answer any questions you may have."; _root.myArray = new Array(); _root.myArray =
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Earlier versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer(IE6 and below) didn’t know how to handle the transparency in PNG image files. Luckily this can (somewhat) be corrected using some Javascript. Include the following function in either your site’s javascript file or in the head of your HTML document. function bgPng(){ for(i=0; i<document.all.length; i++) {
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Below is a Mail class I created in PHP, it requires 4 arguments on initiation of the class via the constructor and uses the method ->send() to send the created mail once complete. class Mail { var $to; var $subject; var $content;
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This is somewhat of a debatable topic, but it has come up a lot of times without any real final clarity, so I will try and cover it all. Lets begin by explaining exactly what an IDE is and then we can move onto the more debated areas of choosing the right one for you.
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